The Empty Land: A Novel
by By LAmour, Louis
Category: Fiction , Westerns

For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and  an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything  changed overnight.In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the  seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On  one side are those who understand only brute force. On the other are men who want  law and order but are ready to use a noose to achieve their ends. Between them stand  Matt Coburn and Dick Felton: one a hardened realist, the other an idealist trying  to dig a fortune from the muddy hillside. Outnumbered and outgunned, Felton and Coburn  can’t afford to be outmaneuvered. For as the two unlikely allies confront corruption,  betrayal, and murder in an attempt to tame a town where the discovery of gold can  mean either the fortune of a lifetime or a sentence of death, they realize that any  move could be their last.