The First Fast Draw

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Author(s):

Louis L'Amour

First Pub:

1959

Genre(s):

Western

First Read:

2023

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

7 chapters

Internal ID:

3195

Series:

No series

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

When the shelter was finished, thatched heavy with pine boughs, I went inside and built myself a hatful of fire.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Tonight John Tower will drive out from town and we will walk down to the corrals together to watch the horses, two tall old men who long ago stood side by side in a green sunlit meadow on the banks of the Sulphur River, but that was long, long ago, and in another world than this, another time.

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Added: 05-Jul-2022

Last Updated: 25-Sep-2023

Quotes

If a man can find dry wood after three days of rain he's a man to ride the river with.

The First Fast Draw
Louis L'Amour
Cullen Baker

Folks are always talking about how busy a bee is, shows they never really watched a bee. A bee makes so much fuss with all his perambulating around that folks think they're doing a sight of work, but believe me, I've watched bees by the hour and I can tell you all that buzzing is a big fraud. The bees I've watched always buzzed in the sunniest places around the best-smelling flowers, just loafing their heads off lusting around in the play of sun and shadow at the swamp's edge. Busy? Not so's you could notice.

The First Fast Draw
Louis L'Amour
Cullen Baker

No... he doesn't understand. Down here... a man is admired for daring to face another armed man with a pistol and for settling his quarrels bravely. It isn't a killing that is admired, it is the courage to fight for what you believe. You won't be admired as the man who killed Cullen Baker, you will be despised as someone who murdered a sleeping man.

The First Fast Draw
Louis L'Amour
Katy Thorne

Publications

01-Jun-1987

Bantam Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jun-1987

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.95

Pages*:

156

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 16 Sep 2023 - 19 Sep 2023

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

2686

Publisher:

Bantam Books

ISBN:

0-553-25224-0

ISBN-13:

978-0-553-25224-8

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

John Hamilton - Photographer

HERE LIES SAM BARLOW
COWARD-THIEF-MURDERER
KILLED BY CULLEN BAKER

I burned those words on a rough board, dug the grave deep and left them for Barlow to see. Then I started practicing with my Colt ten hours a day, till it lept into my hand and found the target like a living thing. I was ready for Barlow now. I had invented the deadliest form of hand-to-hand fighting the world had ever seen - the first fast draw.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier. There are now over 175 million of his books in print around the world.

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Notes and Comments:

A Bantam Book / February 1959

2nd printing ... March 1959
3rd printing ... March 1961
4th printing ... August 1965
5th printing ... June 1966
6th printing ... October 1966

7th printing ... April 1968
8th printing ... August 1969
9th printing ... October 1969
10th printing ... April 1970
11th printing ... September 1970

12th printing ... December 1971
New Bantam edition / September 1971

2nd printing ... July 1972
3rd printing ... July 1972
4th printing ... October 1972
5th printing ... December 1973
6th printing ... August 1974
7th printing ... July 1975
8th printing ... September 1975
9th printing ... January 1976
10th printing ... August 1977
11th printing ... March 1978

12th printing ... January 1979
13th printing ... June 1979
14th printing ... May 1980
15th printing ... September 1981
16th printing ... February 1982
17th printing ... December 1983
18th printing ... February 1985
19th printing ... January 1986
20th printing ... September 1986
21st printing ... June 1987

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Author(s)

Louis L'Amour
Birth: 22 Mar 1908 Jamestown, North Dakota, USA
Death: 10 Jun 1988 Los Angeles, California, USA

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