NMLP P-019802 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Crossfire Trail

Louis L'Amour · Ace Books · 1954

True first US; paperback original under the L'Amour byline (not the Jim Mayo pseudonym). Expanded from his earlier magazine story 'The Trail to Crazy Man' (first published in West, July 1948).

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-019802 for "Crossfire Trail" by Louis L'Amour (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-019802, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).