Bibliograph

Bendigo Shafter, Louis L'Amour

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Bendigo Shafter, Louis L'Amour

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

890L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Bendigo Shafter

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

233252046

Responsibility statement

Louis L'Amour

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 5.5, 18, 18, 7051

Summary

At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and 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-edged instincts, honed from years in the mountains, serve him in the big city? Does Ninon's heart belong to the lights and glamour of the theater? And if his destiny deems it so, will he be willing to leave the community he toiled so long and hard to build?

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