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Book Review of Last Stand at Papago Wells

Last Stand at Papago Wells
Last Stand at Papago Wells
Author: Louis L'Amour
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Logan Cates knew the many ways the Arizona desert could kill a man. He had ridden the sandblasted dunes, tracked the Apache over barren lava beds, sheltered in the dry washes of this forbidding land. Above all he knew a man needed water to survive. Cates rode to Papago Wells a few miles ahead of an Apache war party led by the vicious Churupati. There he met a dozen desert wanderers whom chance had led to the only water between Yuma and Hell. There they came under seige by the Indians- and there they would make their stand, with little hope of living beyond the next day and only a hard man named Logan Cates to show them how to conquer their enemy: fear.