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How long does it take to read The Burning Hills?

Louis L'Amour

The Burning Hills by Louis L'Amour takes about 2 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 2 hours 48 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1956. 153 pages, about 42,075 words.

6 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 4 hours 41 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 2 hours 48 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 45 minutes

The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

L'Amour's protagonist, Trace Jordan, makes a hard but honest living. Unscrupulous thugs kill his partner and steal his horses. But crime doesn't pay for the villains of this fast-paced western drama. Not only does Trace get the better of the bad guys, he finds love in wide empty spaces of Arizona - New Mexico.

Subjects: Fiction, Western, Cowboys, Western stories, Fiction, westerns, Apache Indians

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