<p>It was a land where nothing was small nothing was simple. Everything the lives of men and the stories they told ran to extremes.</p> <p>Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings—but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec whom he hopes will protect his family.</p> <p>A word from Louis L’Amour:</p> <p>“Almost forty years ago when my fiction was being published exclusively in ‘pulp’ western magazines I wrote several novel-length stories which my editors called ‘magazine novels.’ In creating them I became so involved with my characters that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared became collector’s items. Pleased as I was about how I brought the characters and their adventures to life in the pages of the magazines I still wanted the reader to know more about my people and why they did what they did. So over the years I revised and expanded these magazine works into fuller-length novels…I hope you enjoy them.”</p> <p><em>The Trail to Crazy Man</em> is one of Louis L’Amour’s finest short novels originally serialized in early “pulp” Western magazines now offered again in book form in response to widespread interest among L’Amour’s many fans.</p>