Bendigo Shafter (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel
Publisher: Bantam
Published: Aug 29, 2017
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780425286081
Description: At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a tag tag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and a 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 earned instincts honed from years in the mountains, serve him in the big city? Does Ninon's heart heart belong to the lights and glamour of the theatre? And is his destiny deems it so, will he be willing to leave the community he toiled so long and hard to build?