02407cam a2200385 i 4500 465958329 TxAuBib 20201223120000.0 171023s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u jkp00026341 9780425286104 paperback 042528610X paperback TxAuBib rda L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988. Down the long hills : a novel / Louis L'Amour ; postscript by Beau L'Amour. Bantam Books mass market edition. New York : Bantam Books, 2017. 182 pages : map ; 18 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Text ©1968 ; postscript ©2017. Originally published in paperback in the U.S. in 1968. Includes lost treasures bonus material (pages 171-172). "Everyone was dead. Indian raiders massacred the entire wagon train. Only seven-year-old Hardy Collins and three-year-old Betty Sue Powell managed to survive. With a knife, a horse, and the survival lessons his father taught him, Hardy must face the challenges of the open prairie. Using ingenuity and common sense, he builds shelters, searches out water, and forages for food. But as he struggles to keep them alive, he realizes that their survival will depend on his ability to go beyond what his father was able to teach him. Hardy bravely presses on, fighting off the temptation to give up, until a howling blizzard and a pack of hungry wolves force him to make decisions that no seven-year-old boy should ever have to make."--Page 4 of cover. After the massacre Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only a horse and a knife with which to face the long battle against the wilderness. A seven-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, stranded on the limitless prairie. They were up against starvation, marauding Indians, savage outlaws, and wild animals. They were mighty stubborn, but the odds were against them-and their luck was about to run out. 20201223. Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S) Fiction. Wyoming Fiction. United States, West. Wyoming. Western fiction. Western stories. L'Amour, Beau,.