North to the Rails

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Summary: North to the Rails goes where
Review: North to the Rails runs with a fun story that carries along with it a different western tone. Unlike many of our western heroes, Lamour develops a character that doesn't believe in guns. He learns the uses for it but carries an internal feeling against them, very different and unique. A good read.

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Summary: North to the Rails
Review: The book is called North to the Rails. Louis L'amour wrote the book. It is a western. A young man from the east comes to buy cattle and ship them on the railroad. He buys 2,000 cattle and drives them to the railroad which is moving westward. His business depends on him and the cattle but he encounters many problems along the way. I have read many books by Louis L'amour and they are all good. This one kept my attenion very well and had a good plot. "I am not a coward. I simply do not believe in carrying guns, and I do not believe in killing."pg.16. One of the main problems in the book is that the main character, Tom Chantry, will not carry a gun. That gets him in a couple of fights with people. That also makes him defensless against anyone who want to push him around. When he gots tired of people pushiing him around he decides to change his mind. He was not use to having to use guns because he comes form the east where there is law and order. In the west there is no law and people kill people and it is no big deal. This book had many suspensfunl parts in it but in the begging it is kind of boring.

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Summary: ¿North to the Rails¿ is enjoyable for everyone!
Review: Tom Chantry came from the East to the West to buy cattle then bring them to the railroads at Dodge. But when he backs down from a shoot-out with a drunk named Dutch Akins, everyone takes him for a coward and a man who doesn't keep his word. Tom can't find anyone now to buy cattle from or even help move them to the railroads. Tom must learn that he is now in the untamed land of the west where there is no law but only a man's courage and his gun.

Then Tom shocks everyone with how much nerve he has. He makes a deal with French Williams, a well-known man who everyone accuses of stealing cattle though there is no proof. He is said to be able to swindle anyone out of a cow deal. Tom says to Williams that if French Williams will supply the men to help take the herd to the rails, Chantry will give him some shares of the profit. Then Tom makes the deal more interesting. He says that if he himself can't keep up with the outfit and doesn't make it to Dodge City, French Williams will get all of the profit. Williams agrees to it.

Now Tom must be sure to keep up with the herd. But everyone forgets that his father was the famous Borden Chantry and that Tom knows what he's doing. Though at first he is against having a gun, he buys himself a gun and a rifle. And not only does he know how to shoot, he knows how to fight. Local outlaws and gunmen mistake him for a victim but they were going to learn that he is no greenhorn and not a man to be trifled with.

This is a great book to read!! When I first read it, I had such a hard time putting it down when I had to do other things. I couldn't stop reading it. It's very exciting and suspenseful. The character of Tom Chantry is really likable and I was rooting him on throughout the whole book. But probably my most favorite character in the book was French Williams. He is cool, smart, fast with a gun, and a very honorable man. He might steal cattle from others and swindle people out of a cattle deal, he still is very nice and trustworthy. Then there's also the character of Mr. Sparrow. He's very mysterious yet nice and kind, and strangely very attached to Tom Chantry, even though they hardly know each other. But if I tell to much about him, I'll spoil the story.