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The Trail to Crazy Man

L'Amour's Original Version

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The Trail to Crazy Man

By: Louis L'Amour
Narrated by: Randal Schaffer
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The uncut, unrevised original text, as L'Amour intended it.

Rafe Caradec had been raised to a hard life in a hard land where death lurked behind every bush and in most men's eyes. Only his courage and his gun had sustained him. That and the unflinching honor that had earned him the respect of every man.

Now, that honor was about to lead him into deadly danger against the greatest odds he had ever faced. For Rafe had given his word to a dying man and could not go back on it. The man had been murdered by a cabal of greedy ranchers who wanted his land, and Rafe had sworn to protect that land for the man's wife and infant daughter.

But when he told her his story, the wife didn't believe him. She knew someone was after the ranch, and she thought it was Rafe. So she betrayed him into the hands of the very men who had killed her husband.

If Rafe Caradec lived, he would have to wage a one man range war against impossible odds, with a woman who wanted him dead waiting if he survived.

This edition is based on the original magazine version of this novel as Louis L'Amour first visualized it. Trail to Crazy Man was published in the July 1948 issue of the pulp magazine, West. Later, he lengthened the story for his book publishers and changed the title to Crossfire Trail. Some of his fans consider the novels as he wrote them for the magazines to be stronger than their subsequent expansions. L'Amour and other fans disagreed. Both camps agree that the original versions have all the strengths of his best writing and a taut, fast-moving pace that never stints on characterization.

Special introduction about L'Amour's pulp career and pulp novels.

©2014 Jean Marie Stine (P)2018 Jean Marie Stine
Genre Fiction Westerns
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Classic Western Tale • Thrilling Story • Great Narration • Intriguing Plot • Engaging Performance • Superb Voice Acting
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This is one of the stories about hard men with hard lives, boring and hard times. The kind of thing that Louis l’Amour excels at. This is one of his finer books in my opinion, Rafe is an excellent character. And his reaction to the suffering he has to endure and his reaction to it borders on being legendary.

These are the books that men are like Wyatt, Earp, and Doc Holliday would have loved back in the day. These are gunmen and cowboys struggling just to make it through one more day. This is the uncut version of an amazing story, and I don’t know why anybody would trim this thing down but this proves it should never been touched.

Randall Schaeffer nails this story down like a coffin lid in the cemetery. He is a voice actor extraordinaire.

I loved this book and want to see what else was left out of Louis’s other stories. What

L’amour as he was meant to be heard

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Louis L'amour, that says it all, you know the story will be a great one!
The Narrator, the Narrator does a superb job, you will quickly lose yourself & enter the world of the old west.
I can not recommend a better Author or Narrator .

Another great western

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I remember reading this many years ago. This narrator does an excellent job of bringing the story to life.

YEEEHAW!

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My uncle used to rave about Louis L'Amour, so when I got the opportunity to listen to this one for free, I jumped at the chance. Suffice it to say, I was not disappointed. In fact, it's made a new fan out of me. Sure it's a bit on the short side, but you can't go wrong here. Great characters, great story, great narration. There's no cursing and no sex either. Five stars all around.

Outstanding

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If you like traditional westerns with cowboys,Indians and lots of action this is for you. Well performed.

Great listen

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This was a good story—I enjoyed it from start to finish! The main characters were engaging and had enough depth to keep me invested, while the villains were delightfully sinister. The balance between the two kept things exciting the whole way through.

The narrator was spot-on, bringing just the right energy and emotion to the story. Their performance really added another layer to the experience and made it even more enjoyable. I was drawn in, eager to see what would happen next.

Overall, this was a well-paced, exciting read. I’m definitely planning to dive into more books by this author.

Exciting Characters, Thrilling Story

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great story line, very good narrator, you will definitely get into this book with all the enthusiasm that is in this listen.

very good (J)

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An outstanding, entertaining western tale with great characters, story/writing and narration. Five stars and worth it.

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Story of a Cowboy who ends up on a ship and then escapes to return to USA Texas.
Nicely written story of a quiet low key cowboy and his friends out to help their mutual friend that died and left a wife & daughter. Narrator did a good job with the characters.

Good Louis L'Amour Western

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I really enjoyed this book. The characters were a lot more tangible than the other books I’ve listened to by Louis L’Amore.
My favourite part was definitely the court case. Very cleverly done!

Thank you to the narrator for doing a great job.

I marked it down with one point because the plot seemed to be very similar to two other books I’ve listened. It made the story a bit predictable.

A nice easy listen!

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