That letter had come from a badly frightened man, and no man he had ever known was more cool, concise, and self-sufficient than Erik Hokart. Of course, Erik Hokart's letter was a part of it. The road was a mere trail among low sandhills, with the dark outlines of square-edged mesas looming against the sky. He drove slowly, watching for the turnoff he had been warned would be hard to find.

Why had that one story clung to his memory? Was it the old man himself? Yet why should that be so? It was only a story told by an old man at a lunch counter, and he had heard many such stories and spent a good part of his life proving them to be illusions, fabrications, or misunderstood phenomena. Had he not traveled hundreds of lonely roads before this? Or was it that old memory, haunting him still? What was the matter with him? Ever since leaving the highway he had felt a growing uneasiness.

It had been over an hour since he had seen another car, a Navajo family in a pickup. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.IT WAS NIGHT, and he was alone upon the desert. L’Amour’s never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. These exciting publications will be followed by Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volume 2.Īdditionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volumes 1, Beau L’Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. Crossing a border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn of the astonishing world of the Anasazi and discover the most extraordinary frontier ever encountered. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter from an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. For centuries the sudden disappearance of these people baffled historians. The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the “ancient enemy,” and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!

The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour