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books2025-08-15 12:57 pm
marycatelli) wrote in books2025-08-15 12:57 pm
The Proving Trail
The Proving Trail by Louis L'Amour
The young narrator of this tale leaves his job herding cattle to find his father, and learns that his father was murdered after a night of successful gambling.
He was robbed, but then his son realizes that the man who robbed him had found him dead. And he begins to realize something about their own wandering life, where his father went from place to place even when he had to leave a place with a good job.
Adventure through the Wild West, with mystery and a -- well, a touch of Gothic. No mysterious mansion to be sure, but the mysteries of his family unravel along with the rest.
Language is a bit uneven for the character, and a few anachronistic usages grate.
The young narrator of this tale leaves his job herding cattle to find his father, and learns that his father was murdered after a night of successful gambling.
He was robbed, but then his son realizes that the man who robbed him had found him dead. And he begins to realize something about their own wandering life, where his father went from place to place even when he had to leave a place with a good job.
Adventure through the Wild West, with mystery and a -- well, a touch of Gothic. No mysterious mansion to be sure, but the mysteries of his family unravel along with the rest.
Language is a bit uneven for the character, and a few anachronistic usages grate.