The Riders of High Rock
Louis L'Amour. Bantam, $5.99 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-553-56782-3
Hopalong Cassidy's third adventure pits Hopalong against a gang of frontier cattle rustlers. (May)
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Reviewed on: 04/04/1994
Genre: Fiction
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