Booty for a Bad Man

by Louis L'Amour

This exclusive full-cast dramatization, complete with stirring music and authentic sound effects, brings to life Tell Sackett, an honest, two-fisted cowboy.

Tell Sackett knew that gold spelled trouble faster than anything except a woman, and he had a lot of gold.  Problem was, none of it was his.  Tell was just delivering the gold for a fee.  The Coopers, a gang of bloodthirsty desperadoes who'd slit a man's throat for the silver filling in his teeth, were hot on his trail.

So, the last thing Tell needed was Christine Mallory, a pretty, stuck-up city woman, to slow him down.  Taking her on could easily cost Tell his life.  But it was that or leave her in the desert to die.  As Tell Sackett's father used to say, "Women are trouble."  Tell was about to learn what he meant.

Length: 65 minutes.

Read by Dramatization

Genres: Westerns, Fiction

2 pages, Audiobook

First published November 1, 1991

About the author

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and the Sackett series. L'Amour also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (The Haunted Mesa), non-fiction (Frontier), and poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films. His books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death, almost all of his 105 existing works (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) were still in print, and he was "one of the world's most popular writers".

Reviews

[Dale]

Published by Bantam Audio Publishing in 1991.
Multicast performance.
Duration: 1 hour, 4 minutes.

Louis L'Amour's famed Sackett family adventures continue with this full cast dramatization of of a short story about William Tell Sackett. Tell Sackett appears in seven L'Amour novels and two of his short stories.

In Booty for a Badman , Tell Sackett is prospecting for gold and not finding anything. He is close to giving up completely when he is approached by one of his successful gold-mining neighbors with a proposal. The successful miners are piling up quite a stash of gold (50 pounds among the group) but they fear their claims will be jumped if they leave for town to deposit it in the bank for safekeeping. Even worse, they could be robbed and killed along the way - a fate that has struck other miners So, they want Tell Sackett to...

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[Vincent Darlage]

I had this for years on cassette, and enjoyed it a lot, so I was real glad to see it on Audible (since I no longer have a cassette player in my car). Still as good as it used to be. This is a full cast dramatization, not just a reading, and it features my favorite Sackett, Tell.

[Plum]

I'm not really into western, too much machismo and tricky dialect for me to interpret. I think it would be easier if I were American, and had a handle on some of the phrases. This was short enough for me to give it a go, but I think a whole novel would be too much for me.

[Gerhard]

Typical L'Amour but a little too short with no real meat...

[Robert]

A Great Short Story with William Tell Sackett as a much younger gold mining adventurer. This was a good Read

[Kaitlyn]

I appreciated the humor in this short story. Tell's matter-of-fact narration is one of the most enjoyable parts of the story.

[Terry Yaceyko]

Too short.

[Vincent Darlage]

Tell Sackett is one of my favorite Louis L'Amour characters. Although the narration was a bit flat, the character actors did a great job. I thought this was quite an enjoyable tale. Simple, but interesting.

[Katy]

Tell Sackett is set up when he agrees to take a load of gold over a section that has been besieged by a gang of outlaws.