THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY WAR BY LOUIS L’AMOUR

1. THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY WAR BY LOUIS L’AMOUR

2. TRENT/KILKENNY • Killkenny the famous gunfighter in Texas. Came to Cedar Bluff after killing Able Brockman (Cain’s older brother) • Trent lives alone in a small cabin in the back hills of Idaho. • Only goes to town around three months for supplies.

3. MAIN CHARACTERS • CAIN BROCKMAN: Followed Killkenny to avenge his brothers killing. • KING BILL HALE: He controls Cedar. Tries to burn out all the families in the Back Hills. • CUB HALE: He tries to kill Trent and is responsible for the killing of Dick Mofit. • NITA RIORDAN: Follows Trent here from Texas and runs the Crystal Palace. Jaime Bringo is her personal guardian

4. BEGINNNIG PROBLEM • PA, Sally, and Jack are working on the farm. • Cub Hale rides up with men and say leave or suffer the consequences. • Dick Moffit refuses to be pushed out and they shoot him. (He was unarmed) • Ran Jack (13) and Sally(15) into the forest to die. • They ran all the way to Trent’s house.

5. FAMILIES IN TRENT’S HOME • HATFIELDS- MA, PA, LIJE, SAUL, QUINCE • MOFFITS- SALLY, JACK • O’HARA- Big Irishman • SMITHERS • JACKSON HIGHT- Wild Horse Hunter • RUNYON

6. FIGHT WITH HALE • Trent walked into the crowed saloon just to have a talk with Hale about what happened to Dick Mofit. • Turns into a brawl and Trent was kicked many times in the stomach while he was down. In the end Trent still ended up winning and the whole town was now on his side. • With one eye swollen shut, a nasty cut on his cheekbone, and swollen hands and couldn’t work his gun.

7. GETTING SUPPLIES • In order to get supplies they had to sneak down to town in the middle of the night. 4 mules 2 horses. • Snuck into leather’s house and held him at gun point over to his store. • Kilkenny sat and waited then paid him every cent of what he owed him. He also got a signed receipt.

8. GETTING TO BLAZER • Trent scouted the route to Blazer through the Smoky Desert. • Spent two days with axes • Carry water for horses and handkerchiefs for the horses nostrils. • Trent gets in quicksand but his horse pulled him out of it. • Reached Blazer in half the time because they didn’t have to go around.

9. ATTACK ON THE FIRST WAGON • When Trent arrived he started asking around about the first wagon. • Soderman was wearing ivory handled guns that belonged to Jody Mill a man on the first train. • Killkenny shot Soderman, and two others that tried to kill him.

10. ATTACK ON THE CUP • Jack Moffit scrap on the scalp and hit in the chest. • Bart Hatfield clipped in the chest. • Hale lost 4 men in the attack. • They had to perform surgery on the two men with the bullets in them on the dinning room table.

11. FIGHT WITH TUMBALL TURNER • Kilkenny won twenty thousand dollars of off king Bill when he bet him with the odds 4 to 1. • He talked to Holloran during the fight and told him about Jody Miller. (Jody Miller married Halloran's little sister) • This eventually led to Cain Brockman deciding not to kill him.

12. FINAL ATTEMPT • King sends his best eight men to get Nita from the Crystal Palace. • Right as they came Trent was there. • Shot Jaime Bringo three times in the chest. • Trent made them retreat to Leathers store. • While they were there he ambushed them with a shot-gun.

13. END OF KING BILL • After King Bill lost of the money to Trent he retreated into his Castle and no one saw him for awhile. • Few days later they find him dead because he committed suicide.

14. LAST SHOOT-OUT • After the death of his father Cub Hale disappeared and no one saw him again until he came to kill Trent. • Trent said “I’ll be back” • They shot it out right in the middle of Trent’s front yard. • He shot Cub Hale four times before he could hit the ground. • Cub got one slug into Trent’s hip.

15. LOUIS L’AMOUR • Born in Jamestown North Dakota. • Youngest of seven children. • Nearly 75 million copies of his books in print worldwide. • “The most prolific, bestselling and most highly rated Western writer in the country.”