The Tall Stranger: A Novel
by By LAmour, Louis
Category: Fiction , Westerns

Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope  with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of easterners Rock  Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he  warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon Crockett and the others refused  to listen. Mort Harper, a stranger riding a beautiful black mare, had dazzled them  with his charm and good looks. The southern route was the best way to go, Harper  told them. But best for whom? Bannon wondered. That route led straight to the Salt  Lake Desert. The conditions would be brutal. And if Harper wasn’t steering them toward  those deadly alkali flats, where were they headed? And what would happen once they  got there?