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[Read by Traber Burns]
Rock Bannon, wounded within an Indian attack, is rescued by way of a wagon train heading to Oregon. He has fully recovered when the train pulls into a fort to fill up on supplies. It is there that the leaders of the train meet Morton Harper, a smooth-talking man who persuades them to take a less strenuous trail that allows them to flee an attack by Indians. Bannon knows that there will be no escape from attack on that route and this it'll lead the train directly onto Hardy Bishop's vast ranching domain. In any event, and probably both, it'll mean war -- a war the pioneers will undoubtedly lose.
Showdown first appeared in Giant Western (Winter, 1948) under the title Showdown Trail. Louis L'Amour subsequently reworked and expanded this story into The Tall Stranger, published as a genuine paperback in 1957. The expanded story was filmed as The Tall Stranger (Allied Artists, 1957) directed by Thomas Carr and starring Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo.
