the mountain valley war by louis l’amour
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THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY WAR BY LOUIS L’AMOUR. 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. . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY WAR BY LOUIS L’AMOUR
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”