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Merrano of the Dry Country (Dramatization)

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Merrano of the Dry Country (Dramatization)

By: Louis L'Amour
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When Miguel Merrano first came to Mirror Valley, the land was green and lush...and off limits to Mexicans. Ranchers such as Tom Drake and Joe Stangle tried to drive Merrano out, to fence him out; and when he warned them that greed and overgrazing would ruin their land, they refused to listen.

Now Merrano's predictions have come true. Mirror Valley is so dry it's about to blow away. The cattle are hollow-ribbed and dying. And the ranchers are broke . . . flat broke. Only Merrano's ranch is still thriving. As the ranchers watch him pay for goods in gold and sell his cattle at a mighty profit, their hatred grows and festers . . . until they draw their guns in a desperate act that will pit daughter against father, friend against friend - an act that could tear the valley apart forever.

©2003 Louis L'Amour (P)2008 Random House Audio
Fiction Genre Fiction Westerns Ranch
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Louis L'Amour takes you to the Old West with his books and dramatizations is like stepping trough time and actually been there. This book is weel written, authentic because of all the research the author has made trough his lifetime. I highly recommend all his books.

Merrano of the dry County outstanding

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Great story, kept my interest. Enjoyed the moral of the story! Will listen several times.

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Very easy read great audio for the first timer, I enjoyed how the families were transformed some from bad to ugly others from bad to humbled I also really enjoyed the authors knowledge and the Mexican work ethnic & wisdom !

Great book

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A very good production!
I enjoyed listening to this very much. It was very well done.

The dry country

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How to ranch in the desert and how to implement disciplined life to make the right choices. Gives details on ranching.

Wonderful telling of Mans struggle to survive

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This is by Beau Lamour, not Louis. It has more inappropriate language than Louis Lamour stories. It’s a good story. The dramatization goes slow and isn’t very well done.

Not a Louis Lamour

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This story incorporates the classic range war story with the not often mentioned displacement and unwelcome of the native Mexicans in New Mexico. I enjoyed the story it was more realistic than others I have heard or read.

Realistic Western

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I love the original story and I love audio books, but I hate this one. They absolutely destroyed the character of Merrano. In the real story he wasn’t only hated for being half Mexican, he was also hated because his father had married the girl everyone had their eye on. Rather than portraying him as a cool half-Mexican (what main character of L’Amour’s wasn’t cool?) who spoke flawless English and planned ahead, they turned him into some cringing, knee-jerk-reacting Mexican who always sounds desperate and constantly uses Spanish words with a strong accent. Although there’s nothing wrong with that in and of itself, I wish they had stayed accurate to L’Amour’s idea. The interactions between Merrano and Candy were also incredibly inaccurate. They also destroyed the timeline and the actual plot. Some characters were even gotten rid of entirely. Please, do yourself a favor and get the Bowdrie audiobooks instead. They’re accurate to L’Amour’s version and the characters are well played.

Absolutely Ruined :/

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