Novel 1963 - Dark Canyon (v5.0) Read online

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  The Trail to Seven Pines

  The Riders of High Rock

  Trouble Shooter

  NONFICTION

  Education of a Wandering Man

  Frontier

  THE SACKETT COMPANION: A Personal Guide to the Sackett Novels

  A TRAIL OF MEMORIES: The Quotations of Louis L’Amour, compiled by Angelique L’Amour

  POETRY

  Smoke from This Altar

  DARK CANYON

  A Bantam Book

  PUBLISHING HISTORY

  Bantam edition published November 1963

  New Bantam edition / August 1971

  Bantam reissue / January 1997

  Bantam reissue / February 2005

  Published by

  Bantam Dell

  A Division of Random House, Inc.

  New York, New York

  This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  All rights reserved

  Copyright © 1963 by Louis & Katherine L’Amour Trust

  Bantam Books and the rooster colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  Published simultaneously in Canada

  www.bantamdell.com

  eISBN: 978-0-553-89905-4

  v3.0

 

 

 


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