TY - SOUND AU - L'Amour, Louis, TI - There's always a trail: Home in the valley ; Monument Rock SN - 9780739358887 AV - PS3523.A446 A6 2008e U1 - [Fic] PY - 2008///] CY - New York, Prince Frederick, Md. PB - Random House Audio, distributed by Recorded Books KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Fiction KW - Outlaws KW - Ranchers KW - Man-woman relationships KW - West (U.S.) KW - Western stories KW - lcgft KW - gsafd N1 - Compact discs; Unabridged; Titles from disc labels; A fully dramatized audio adaptation of three short stories featuring a professional cast, background music, and sound effects; Originally produced 1994-1998; Disc One; There's always a trail; (1948) --; Disc Two; Home in the valley; (1949) --; Disc Three; Monument Rock; (1998) N2 - There's always a trail: When a stranger named Handy offered to track down Cass Bailey's stolen money for a stake in the CB range, Bailey has nothing more to lose. But his pretty, hot-tempered daughter, Ann, was certain that Handy couldn't find the money unless he'd had a hand in stealing it. So when Handy hit pay dirt, Ann Bailey was there to send all his plans to blazes. Now he faced a shoot-out with the pack of villains who held both Ann and his future hostage -- and a challenge to prove he wasn't a thief to the woman he loved; Home in the valley: Steve Mehan had done the impossible when he drove a herd of cattle from the Nevada range to California in the dead of winter. But Mehan had little time to rest before tragedy struck. The bank that held the cash had failed -- the payment was gone. Steve didn't hesitate. Now he'd have to ride hell-for-leather from Sacramento, California, to Portland, Oregon, with only one hope in a million. He had to beat the steamer to the Portland branch and withdraw the rancher's' money before the bank got the news; Monument Rock: It had been many years since Lona Markham's father sent her from the rigors of ranch life to a convent school. Now she's returned to a wary, careworn man who hardly seems like the father she remembers. The ranch she's set to inherit someday is shadowed by brutish Frank Mailer, the man Lona's promised to marry -- and haunted by the mysterious Black Rider, who watches the Blue Hill Ranch from a distance. Some say the Rider is a ghost, but all Lona knows is his presence makes both Poke Markham and Frank Mailer uneasy. Then one day the enigmatic stranger reveals himself to Lona. Lance Kilkenny has ridden to this rugged country to repay an old debt to Lona's father. When he exposes a cold and daring scheme to cheat her of the Blue Hill Ranch, Lona Markham is plunged into terrible danger. But Kilkenny has a cool head and a fast gun hand ER -