Description
In frosty Montana, two men with nothing left to lose—Pronto Pike, a hard-luck drifter, and Eddie Holt, a black boxer navigating a white man’s world—find themselves bound together by necessity in a remote line shack. As a brutal winter tightens its grip, they chase the promise of steady pay and a chance at something like peace, even as the cold and the local dangers test their grit. With L’Amour’s trademark plainspoken intensity and frontier realism, the story explores survival, pride, and the thin line between endurance and desperation. At its heart, it’s a tale of hard choices, earned respect, and what it takes to keep going when the world offers no easy mercy.
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Bantam Books
Published Jan 1, 1979
ISBN: 9780553136050
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Details
First Published
1964
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Hanging Woman Creek by Louis L'Amour.