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Reed J.

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Great detailed history!

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Reviewed: 08-27-24

Love all the accurate historical facts throughout this book! A great story filled with detail enhancing the story line. We completely enjoyed this book from start to finish and everything in between!

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Authentic area description

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Reviewed: 06-27-24

The area around Malibu, the the sea approaches, the surrounding mountains and hills are covered very accurately in this story. The legends and stories around the area are still talked about by the local old timers during their yarns to people asking questions. Very enjoyable story.

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Challenging and intense

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Reviewed: 03-29-24

We really enjoyed the detailed historical analysis of this project by Louis L'Amour proving his penchant for accuracy to the time and place he is writing about. Verifying his work helps one understand the great lengths the author takes to write these stories from early years of conflicts between Ireland, Spain, and England, with a few smaller countries at times. Being of Irish and Scottish descent myself with my wife being German and French we both enjoyed the story and learned about our history from it. We truly appreciate this famous writer for the effort and research that was put into this work.

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Great authentic story!

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Reviewed: 03-11-24

I truly enjoyed the easy pace the reader of this story used because it matched my idea of how Logan Sackett would actually have talked telling his own story. Excellent story line keeping with the basic truth of how people like these would have lived during that era. Being born and raised in East Tennessee in the late 40's and 50's on very similar true stories from a family spread across Overton, Fentress and ones touching those I learned to love Louis L'Amour's story telling as he called himself a Troubadour. In my life experiences, and a lot of my kin, we all read his books when he used various writers names for different magazines, short stories, and fodder for various companies. A legend while he lived and we appreciate his legacy being carried on by his family. Our children are in their 50's and they all have L'Amour's books, cassette tapes, and DVD's, etc., and they got my wife and I (54 years married) listening to all L'Amour's stories on Audible like they do. We have trouble reading due to eye surgeries but our hearing is hanging in there for now. Great feeling to hear these stories we have read over and over during the years.

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Authentic story of trail drive moving cattle

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Reviewed: 02-20-24

Really loved the complete storyline with winning, losing, relationships of both good and bad. Could very well have happened just the way this story is told. Growing up in the 1950's in East Tennessee on a 350 acre cattle farm in the mountains and working like dogs with no electricity, no plumbing, just a house built from the trees we harvested from our land to clear the land for our cattle. Hunting, fishing, robbing bee hives, and working for neighbor farmers shoveling waste matter, it was a hard life but so rewarding. I love this author's stories because I am comfortable with them. I knew my first girlfriend a day less than a month and ask her to marry me, we were married 5 months latter and are getting ready to celebrate our 54th anniversary, as in this story you meshed with someone and you most likely married them no long after. The way most of the people I grew up with did and the bulk are still married unless one or both have passed away.

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Tremendous Patriotic Acts of an Immigrant!

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Reviewed: 12-06-23

Such dedication and commitment to his adopted country was shown by this Egyptian Immigrant who had served years in his old homeland's military to then move to the USA and truly risk his life and his family's lives because he believed the oath he made to the United States when hen became a citizen to learn of a terror plot and share it with the FBI only to have the upper brass of the FBI discount his loyalty and fire him from the team investigating the terror plot. He remained committed to the Ideals of Freedom so strongly that he went beyond what even natural born citizens would have done to protect his new adopted country! Great true historical story about true American values from an Immigrant! Congratulations to this man for believing the words he swore at the Inauguration Day of his becoming an American Citizen turned Hero!

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Well written story with great suspense to keep us focused!

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Reviewed: 12-06-23

We really enjoyed the overall storyline that unfolded over the numerous episodes of the series and would love for it to have continued on after Detective Sam recovered from his gunshot wound and followed up with the newfound love story between him and Emily. What happened after the person Emily was hiding from walked in her house when she thought it was Sam? Help!

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Great Authentic Documentary!

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Reviewed: 12-04-23

We were hesitant to listen to this documentary because typically they are too cut up from the jumping back and forth between the narrative and the reality of what happened. This was remarkably different than what we were expecting to hear. We played the introduction and I was really impressed with it so I asked my wife (of 53&1/2 years) how she felt. She is the one that typically dislikes documentaries and leaves the room, however, she instantly said that she was very interested in hearing this. We were very happy that we heard this true historically accurate story and the fact that is in such recent times. Thank you for your focus on accurate information and the details that are frequently overlooked that truly make a documentary like this much more relevant to us today and gives us some great follow-up on the characters after the heart of the overall story.

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My wife's favorite L'Amour book!

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Reviewed: 11-21-23

This is another example of a book that has been thoroughly researched and written with great accuracy based on actual facts, places with a clear understanding of the times being written about. Being born in that area of East Tennessee and having hunted the woods in that area in the 1950's it was like being at home in the woods acting like our hunting dog for my father and older brothers. Great memories for sure!

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Outstanding Story/Great Reader!

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Reviewed: 11-18-23

This is a classic Louis L'Amour Story with guns, horses, fierce fistfights, and a fair Lady being cheated or some other offense. Very authentic settings in the great west!

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