How long does it take to read The Haunted Mesa?
The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour takes about 6 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 360 pages, about 99,000 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Haunted Mesa begins near a mesa so forbidding neither Indian nor white man chooses to live in its shadow. Summoned to this dark desert plateau by the desperate letter of an old friend, internationally renowned investigator of unexplained phenomena Mike Raglan finds himself slowly drawn into a world beyond the laws of man and nature, and learns the astonishing legacy of Anasazi.
Subjects: Cliff-dwellers, Western stories, Fiction, Fourth dimension, Western, Pueblo Indians