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The Tall Stranger

            
             The Tall Stranger was written by Louis L"Amour. The Tall Stranger was written in 1957. Louis L"Amour is one of America's favorite storytellers. He has thrilled the nation in his stories with his way of bringing to life brave men and women who settled in the American frontier. The Tall Stranger is a story about a stubborn man named Rock Bannon who saved eastern breed settlers from Indian attacks and Mort Harper, a fast talking crook.
             The book takes place mostly on a trail drive and the new settled town Poplar. Which lies in Hardy Bishops territory called Paradise Valley. The book never gives a specific time date that the book takes place but you can tell by the descriptions of the clothes and other clues that it is probably early to late 1800's. The main characters in this book include Rock Bannon the protagonist of the story. He was a man that kept to him self only really talking to one other individual named Sharon Crockett. Crockett was a rock solid woman having to take care of her dad who had recently been shot in an Indian raid. The other main character is Morton Harper the antagonist of the story a persuading individual who cons the settlers into taking the trail he wants them to take to make a town.
             The book starts you off on a trail drive to what is now known as California. Along the trail they meet up with a man by the name of Mort Harper who persuades them to take a different trail then at first they had intended. Bannon warns them of the trail and what it is like. He warns them that they would have to go through Hardy Bishops land a rough old settler who owns Paradise Valley. But they ignore Bannon seeing as how he is an outsider on the trail drive. They decided to take Mr. Harpers trail seeing that it would cut there time in half on getting to their final location. After a few weeks of the trail Harper suggests to the settlers that the should just settle here because the land is nice and fertile.


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