![]() Just before the wind and the darkening sky (nothing to fool around with at 9,000 feet) chased her back down the precipitous ridge slope, Mrs. It's cattle country, sheep country, horse country, mining country.'' ''There are three Indian tribes - the Utes, the Navajos and the Apaches - in the area. ''This was a research place for Louis,'' Mrs. She and her husband bought most of the ranch in 1983 after nearly 20 years of looking for one in the region where he set some 40 of his 116 books, which have sold an astounding 250 million copies. ![]() ![]() But late one recent afternoon, there were just a couple of casual explorers on the ridge, one of them Kathy L'Amour, the novelist's widow, who goes up there a lot.Ī fit, lively woman in her 60's who favors embroidered western shirts and lizard boots, she owns Maggie Rock, along with 1,800 acres of spectacular ranchland near this mountain town in the southwest corner of the state. ![]() If you saw Maggie Rock in a movie, or read about it in a novel by Louis L'Amour, you would recognize it as the kind of craggy butte where hostile Indians might gather before descending on a wagon train in the valley below. ![]()
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