Louis L'Amour

Carl's Silver Earth Box turned up a shrink-wrapped set of Louis L'Amour paperbacks, the full Sackett Family Saga. His father had owned a whole shelf of L'Amour westerns, and Carl used to sneak them as a kid and read through the night by flashlight, though he had never gotten to this particular series. Finding it left his hands shaking for reasons he did not examine.

Carl had his Louis L'Amour paperbacks on hand that night but decided against reading, since the crew needed to be up early to check on the magistrate before their interview.

Carl tried reading the last Louis L'Amour book he had left during a lull, but couldn't concentrate between the recent events and Donut's loud exclamations.

Carl realized he'd traded away all of his Louis L'Amour books, leaving him without his usual bedtime reading and turning him to the chat feature instead.

Carl traded the rest of his Louis L'Amour books, along with a jug of moonshine, to a moleman shopkeeper for a dwarven battery fabricator, apparently having restocked since trading them all away back at chapter 15.