The Empty Land Louis L Mohur Summary

The Search for Peace Welcome to another western style book, Louis L’amour’s “The Empty Land”. This book is for readers who love action and adventure novels. This book takes place in the 1860’s in the mountains of Utah. The book begins with a man named Dick Felton, who is searching for gold. Felton had the exact location of a rich place to claim from a trapper named Jim twenty years ago. Jim had sold everything to go and find the place once again. That didn’t last very long; Jim was killed by the Utes Indians. The Indians knew who the trapper was and didn’t strip or mutilate the body. Dick Felton decided to take several of his trusted companions, Downey, Cohan, and Zeller. All of them set off to go find the place which Jim had talked about. A week into the adventure the group runs into a Ute Indian raid. Felton had lost Downey, but that didn’t stop them from pushing forward to find the gold. All of them found a

One day Zeller had taken two pans from a bench on the inside bend of a wash, both of them showed color. One of the fragments was rough, indicating it had come from a short distance. That night Felton said, “I’ve got a feeling.” The second pan looked even better. At daybreak the next day Felton suggested they take a break. He smoked his pipe, while scanning the hills for movement. Just as he leaned over to knock out his pipe he saw a chunk of rock literally seaming with gold. The three of them decided to set up the Discovery Mine. All at once it draws lots and lots of economic prospects. Along with masses of miners, businessmen, and saloon owners. All of these people had set up in the little town of Confusion, Utah. The three men had thought it would be a good idea to set up in Confusion. The three of them thought wrong, thieves, murderers, and gamblers. The little town soon became a place of the worst of crimes anyone has ever