Bendigo Shafter - Louis L'Amour

At what point does a group of strangers become a community?

When young Bendigo Shafter
and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly
come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed.
Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh
winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally
demanding experiences, young Bendigo is forged into a man. But when he travels to
New York to reclaim the love of Ninon, his childhood sweetheart, Bendigo is faced
with new challenges. Will hard-edged instincts, honed from years in the mountains,
serve him in the big city? Does Ninon's heart belong to the lights and glamour of
the theater? And if his destiny deems it so, will he be willing to leave the community
he toiled so long and hard to build?

Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author's more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives.

In Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volumes 1, Beau L'Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L'Amour's never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. These exciting publications will be followed by Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2.


Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.