Flint Louis L'amour's Flint James Book Report

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Kettleman walked calmly through the streets of New York, his lean stomach slowly digesting the news that had quietly penetrated the brain lying beneath his straw colored hair. Dying. Hell, he had been dying since he was born, he supposed, but the news he just received form his doctor and friend made it seem a lot more real than it had at any other point in his life. Not that death hadn't seemed real before. He had seen plenty of death, and had been at the causal end of this effect for many others that had crossed his path in the wrong way. But his own death -- now, that was something else. Not scary, exactly, and not even really worrisome, but it certainly seemed to put things in a different perspective. He had always known that life was a finite thing, but now he could actually see its limits, and he was always a man that liked to investigate the strange things he saw.

The Lost Scene

The man behind the iron bars looked at Kettleman strangely, mostly because Kettleman seemed a little strange himself. In a shaky voice, the old man in the government issued uniform asked him, "Where you going, mister?" "West," came the rather mysterious reply. The old man didn't like the way Kettleman said this, and wasn't really sure what to do with this rather general piece of information, but the pile of money that was smacked down on the counter in front of him told him not to make anything of it. He printed the train ticket and handed it over, thinking that this transaction was far less interesting than it had appeared at the outset.

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Chapter Summaries

1: The history of James T. Kettleman and his fortune is revealed as the man makes his way back West to die.

4: Kettleman reflects on his time with Flint, learning the roads and ways of the West, and also exhibits signs of his illness.

9: Lottie Kettleman, James' wife, learns that he has cleaned out his accounts and sets out to find him and get the money she wants back before he is killed.

12: Lottie arrives in Alamitos, and is just as shocked by the area as the area is by her, and other enemies of Flint's are revealed in greater detail with pressing financial motives.

15: The Baldwin riders try to flush out Flint, who is learning that he probably doesn't have cancer, but he doesn't fall for the ambush and instead bets the gang.

Obituary of a Young Man

An unidentified young man was killed yesterday by a gunshot wound to the abdomen, during a gunfight in the Divide Saloon that claimed the lives of five other men. The young man had spent his life largely in the company of Baldwin and his other riders, earning himself a long scar along his face in an incident that neither he nor any of his companions seemed all too eager to speak about. The other accomplishments of this young man in his relatively short life did not include acquiring the ability to outdraw Milt Ryan, and this fact is the primary reason behind the publication of this obituary. The young man leaves behind Alcott, who fled the gunfight like a….....

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