title: Cowboy Stories
author: Louis L'Amour
description: Only Randy Travis completists will be interested in this dreary and disappointing production. Country-western superstar Randy Travis reads these tales with a flat, tired drawl. There is no character differentiation. His voice trails off at the end of each sentence. Travis should stick to his guitar. S.E.S. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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  Louis L'Amour
  
    
  
  Booty for A Badman
  
    
  
  The Sacketts - Short Story
  
  Â from the collection - War Party -
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  Booty for a Badman
  
    
    
  
  When my roan topped out on the ridge, the first thing I saw was that girl. She
  was far off, but a man riding lonesome country gets so he can pick out
  anything strange to it, and this girl was standing up straight beside the
  trail like she was waiting for a stage. Trouble was, nothing but riders or
  freight wagons used that trail, and seldom.
  
  With fifty pounds of gold riding with me and three days ahead of me, I was
  skittish of folks. Most times wild country is less trouble than people, no
  matter how rough the country. And no woman had a right to be standing out
  there in that empty desert-mountain country.
  
  We Sacketts began carrying rifles as soon as we stood tall enough to keep both
  ends off the ground.
  
  When I was fourteen I traveled from Cumberland Gap in Tennessee down to the
  Pine Log Mountains in Georgia, living on cougar mea