One doesn't often associate a love story with western novels, but Louis L'amour's "Conagher" contains a beautiful love story as well as plenty of traditional action. "Conn" Conagher is a hard-bitten cow hand approaching middle age and searching for something beyond drifting from one ranching job to another.
By chance, Conn encounters Evie Teale and her two children who are attempting to homestead a ranch in the wilderness Mrs. Teale's husband Jacob has disappeared and is presumed dead. Conn finds a job with an aging ranch owner and discovers that a gang of rustlers is gradually stealing the old mans cattle. While taking on the gang of rustlers Conn finds mysterious notes tied to drifting tumbleweeds. The notes speak of the same loneliness that Conn is feeling and he searches for the author of the notes unaware that he already knows her.
I first read Conagher when I was a teenager and it remains one of my favorite books. At some point in everyones life we are looking for a place to call home and if we are very blessed we find it.
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