Louis L'Amour books

Kiowa Trail (The Louis L'amour Legacy Editions) (2006)

This was my first foray into the western genre, and I definitely know it won't be my last. I've been wanting to try it out for a while now, and after one of my customers recommended "just picking any ole one up," that's exactly what I did. I went to the library and pulled the first Louis L'Amour ...

The Lonesome Gods: A Novel (1984)

I read The Lonesome Gods because it was recommended in A Thomas Jefferson Education as one of five books to start one’s classic library. The reviews claimed it was Louis L’Amour’s biggest and most important historical novel. That may be true, but it didn’t measure up to the level of classic lit...

Callaghen (1998)

Poor Sergeant Callaghen just can't win. At 34 he's got hardly any money to his name and is stuck in the army, stationed in the California desert to protect travelers from Indians, apparently before the Gold Rush really got started, and when he gets his discharge papers he has no idea what he'll d...

Over on the Dry Side: a nOVEL (1985)

This was a typical Louis L'amour book. Western, rough country, bad men vs one good man, tormented past that is never quite revealed, beautiful girl, a homestead full of trials and triumph. The only thing different about this particular story then the others I have divulged in was the use of a ...

Kid Rodelo: A Novel (2007)

Rodelo is relieved to be released from prison – and angry that he had to spend time there in the first place. Even harder for him to handle is the fact that, when he was first accused of the crime, none of his so-called friends had stood for his character. They’d all faded away – deserted him. Bu...

The Iron Marshal (1993)

I'd quit reading L'Amour for a while, after few less-than-impressive books, but I tried again recently and the last two I've read were back up to standard. The Iron Marshal is interesting because of its first few chapters which develop the hero's backstory. Instead of the usual seasoned frontiers...

Galloway (1970)

Flagan Sackett is running for his life and the outlook is not good. A few minutes ago, he was the captive of Apache Indians but thanks to a diversion provided by his brother Galloway, he has a chance. Buck naked and hand-bound, all he can do is run.Galloway and Flagan were searching for a good ...

FAIR BLOWS THE WIND: A Novel (1981)

Date Read: 12-September-2010I read this book – Fair Blows the Wind” by Louis L’Amour - for a book discussion group. I liked the story and the fact that it was not a western novel typically done by L’Amour but one that takes place mostly in Europe before the population of North America. A few th...

The Daybreakers (1984)

This is a great book, and L’Amour is someone you should read if you’ve not done so. Long before he became pretty much THE guy for “Westerns,” he was a poet and a world traveler. He read pretty much everything and knew a lot about the world, and he honestly has a lot to teach to the modern world...

The Broken Gun (1984)

I tried to like this book, but I just didn't. I don't know if it's a personal issue - I'm not particularly a fan of Westerns so I am not well read in the genre. Or honestly it could just be a weak book. I'm leaning more towards the latter.Broken Gun tells the story of writer/historian/Korean War ...

Treasure Mountain (1984)

My favorite story so far, I think. Some of that is time spent in my favorite city (New Orleans)—a good quarter of the book is Tell and Orrin bumbling about in the French Quarter. Some of it is this being the first one I actually remember bits of from my young reading days. But most of it is a gre...

Lonely on the Mountain (1984)

This book I found enjoyable until the very end. The description of the cattle drive, the problems along the way, Orrin's own journey to met up with the cattle drive, all satisfied the reader in me. But the last chapter after Shorty is killed made me feel as if everyone else knew the secret exce...

Bowdrie's Law (1984)

I am a Louis L'Amour completest and this is my 76th L'Amour book that I have read so far. Obviously I am a fan so please take that into consideration as you consider my review.This a collection of 10 short stories all featuring the Texas Ranger character, Chick Bowdrie. All of these stories, al...

The Trail to Seven Pines (1993)

Hopalong rides into a firestorm of violence and  betrayal. On the rain-drenched trail to the  lawless town of Seven Pines, Hopalong discovers two men  -- one dead, the other badly wounded. Returning  with medical help, Hopalong finds the wounded man  has been shot through the temple. Who would  c...

Showdown At Yellow Butte (1997)

I have read all of Louis L'Amour's books at least once, and some of them I have read several times. They have become, for me, a vacation. After weeks and months of reading things for work--or even pleasure--there's just nothing like settling in for a couple evenings of a Louis L'Amour story. T...

Ride the River (1983)

I'll admit to having put off picking up this one, even though so far the Sackett books have pretty much been a sausage fest (for all that each one of them is about the winning of a wife as awesome as each novel's hero deserves), partly because I wasn't sure how well Louis L'Amour could really do ...

Radigan (1984)

Louis L’Amour- Radigan (Bantam Books 1969) 3.75 StarsAfter working through harsh conditions to build his ranch, Tom Radigan now finds himself in danger of losing what he has fought so hard to build. Angelina Foley comes from seemingly nowhere claiming to have a deed to the ranch land that he has ...

The Mountain Valley War (1997)

Lots of great frontier philosophy in this one. The backstory is highly developed, with lots of interesting character studies. And of course the Kilkenny-Nita romance is one of L'Amour's most compelling, at least for me.In addition to the great gunfights you'd expect from Kilkenny, The Mountain Va...

Catlow (2006)

Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow have been friends for years now – since they were boys in fact. They fought some, rode trails together, and finally parted company. Ben became a U.S. marshal while Catlow became – an outlaw.Ben is loathed to become involved with the capture of Catlow – the man is still ...

Comstock Lode (1982)

I picked up “Comstock Lode” at an airport bookstore for a flight home from, appropriately, Nevada. Coming in at about 600 pages, the book is two to three times the size of a typical L’Amour western, which is how I knew I had never read it before. Back in my college years, I plowed through a stack...

The Rider of Lost Creek (1982)

I used to read L'Amour whenever we went to the beach for Easter. He was light, fast and whenever one of his heroes was trapped in the desert heat without water being pursued by Apaches, I felt better able to empathize while sitting in a deck chair under the hot Alabama sun, having to stretch alm...

Monument Rock (1999)

This is a book consisting of mainly short stories. All typical Louis L'Amour western, cowboy story lines. Ladies, if you never read this author, do not be put off. Mr. L'Amour is such an excellent story writer that both men and women will find them interesting. There is just enough of a hint of r...

Where the Long Grass Blows (1985)

Bill Canavan has wanted a ranch for several years. But he’s not content to rest with some dingy set of acres. He wants to own the most lush and fertile land in the valley. The scary thing is, he’s got it, deed and all. But the other, more powerful ranchers in the valley don’t know of his claim an...

Milo Talon: A Novel (1981)

Something just doesn’t seem right to Milo Talon. He’s used to being hired to do odd jobs by rich men. But this particular case is unusual. Jefferson Henry wants Milo to hunt down his granddaughter, Nancy Henry, who’s been missing for over fifteen years. That doesn’t sound criminal, but why didn’t...

Yondering (1989)

Jan. 26, 2012Best known for his Westerns, Louis L'Amour actually wrote stories and novels set in a variety of times and places. Like his Westerns, though, all of these tend to feature strong heroes who are macho but moral (and he well understood that these aren't contradictory qualities!), and w...

High Lonesome (1962)

Cognitive dissonance. There's so much I liked about this book. Sure, the whole bank robber with an old grudge to be settled plot is pretty cliched and the characters aren't particularly well rounded, but the prose is masterfully written and so much of the ethos of manhood and outlaw is articulate...

The Burning Hills (1985)

I'm a Louis L'Amour fan. Despite the fact that there's very little dialogue, the story of Trace Jordan comes alive. Trace and his partner have rounded up wild horses, branded them and are in the process of breaking them. Upon returning from getting supplies in town, Trace finds his horses gone an...

The Quick and the Dead: A Novel (1982)

Άγριοι σαν τον άνεμοΌγδοο γουέστερν του Λουίς Λ'Αμούρ που διαβάζω και γι'ακόμη μια φορά ευχαριστήθηκα την αφηγητική του δεινότητα στο συγκεκριμένο είδος, στο οποίο θεωρείται ο καλύτερος. Η ιστορία έχει να κάνει με τον Ντάνκαν Μακ Κάσκελ, που αποφάσισε να μετακομίσει με την οικογένεια του στην Άγρ...

Sackett (1981)

”Trouble just naturally seemed to latch onto me and hang on with all its teeth.” William Tell Sackett likes to be left alone. Lean and gangling, he’s peaceful, until riled. Most of his life he’s been“lighting a shuck” but, when trouble comes, he get’s biblical and “smites it hip and thigh.”Like...

The Riders of High Rock (1994)

I love a good Louis L'Amour western. He's a good storyteller who creates interesting characters and places them in beautifully illustrated settings. L'Amour's ability to describe the time and place of his novels, and the small details about life in the old west, makes his stories come alive.This ...

The Outlaws of Mesquite (1991)

Meet the frontier bad men—like Leo Carver—a man so hated that everyone in the town of Canyon Gap planned to turn up for his hanging. Then meet those who dared to challenge them—like Marshal Lou Morgan, who tried to save his citizens from a goldmine swindler, only to learn that his own code of hon...

The First Fast Draw (1985)

The boom reverberated off the canyon walls and the screams and the smoke and the noise—I’m ashamed to say I fainted. I came to rather quickly, the explosive percussion fading like a thunderclap far away, but my mind had fallen into that other canyon—the darker one of memory. That last night in ou...

The Key-Lock Man: A Novel (1984)

Το παιχνίδι του θανάτουΈβδομο βιβλίο του Λουίς Λ'Αμούρ που διαβάζω και ήταν και αυτό το ίδιο καλό με τα προηγούμενα. Η ιστορία είναι αρκετά απλή αλλά ενδιαφέρουσα: Έξι άντρες της πόλης Φρίντομ κυνηγάνε τον Ματ Κήλοκ, με σκοπό να τον κρεμάσουν από το ψηλότερο δέντρο της πόλης, επειδή ο Κήλοκ φαίνε...

War Party (1982)

Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the  Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian  attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through  Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man ...  Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a  war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling danger...

Heller with a Gun (1998)

This was my first ever Louis L'Amour book, and I liked it really well! Which is a good thing, as I've got something like 15 more of his books on my TBR. See, we were having a yard sale this summer, and my grandpa had a big box just chock full of L'Amour books, so when the sale was over, I took a ...

Mojave Crossing (1985)

Why is it that good hearted cowboys always seem to get dragged into trouble by dark hearted women?This is another novel where one of the Sackett boys goes out of his way to help a lady and ends up in a whole heap o' trouble - gunfights, suicidal desert crossings, saloon brawls, etc. This time Tel...

Brionne (1985)

Major James "Brionne" 33 retreats to mountain wilderness with son Mat, six when wife and mother Anne shot an attacker then herself, impressing Cotton Allard. His killer gang burns her house in revenge for a brother's trial and hanging after Confederate war predations. Author Louis L'Amour include...

The Empty Land: A Novel (1995)

Η άδεια γηΠέμπτο βιβλίο του Λουίς Λ'Αμούρ που περνάει στην λίστα με τα διαβασμένα, ακόμα ένα καλό γουέστερν. Πρόκειται για την ιστορία μιας νεότευκτης πόλης χρυσού, της Κονφούζιον. Η πόλη χτίστηκε στα γρήγορα δίπλα σε φλέβες χρυσού σε κάποια περιοχή των ΗΠΑ. Τα γνωστά. Βέβαια, από την πρώτη μέρα ...

Westward the Tide (1984)

This is one of L'Amour's better works. Decent plot. Minimal macho akwardness in his language. The story follows one of his typically well-cultured killer types, who slightly tips the scales towards good, joining a group of prospectors looking for gold in Big Sky country. Turns out something i...

To the Far Blue Mountains (1977)

My expectations were high when I picked up my first L'Amour novel. Higher than they ought to have been, it turns out, as I was fairly disappointed. First, the mitigating factors: I listened to this as an audio book. I find that I tend to rate some audio books lower than I might have had I read ...

The Strong Shall Live (1984)

This is a marvelous collection of western short stories by the immortal Louis L'Amour. As an example of the stories you'll find here, "Bluff Creek Station" is one of the shortest of the stories in the entire collection and yet it is one of the most inspiring. It begins with the main character kn...

The Californios (1985)

Some the good quotes from the book1. "Wisdom must be shared, it must be given, or else it lies cold upon the rocks"2. I do not think time passes, as you say. I think time is here, that it never began, can never be measured, and will always be.3. To live a long time is nothing, to live a long tim...

Passin' Through (1985)

"I'm anything it takes to..." "I do whatever will" get the coon" p34,55 from lofty age of 28 p271,2 "I don't know what the young folks are comin' to these days. All kinds of gallivantin' about. Restless, that's what they are, restless. They ought to have more chores to do." p317 when Burrows bro...

The Proving Trail (1985)

My dad loves all his books and I read over a hundred while staving off the night terrors when growing up.It is a strange fact about the old west, Indians, and the genocidal take over of the land now called the United States that fiction writing about them is often taken for truth (see Ward Church...

The Hills of Homicide (1984)

I tried. I really did.A friend recommended this work - particularly the Kip Morgan stories inside - when the likes of Philip Marlowe came up. I'd never read any L'Amour before picking it up, and now that I have: He's no Raymond Chandler. Not even close.The first story (the novella that lends the ...

North to the Rails (1982)

http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/loui...Tom Chantry has all his future father-in-law's money to buy cattle and ship back East by rail. But in Las Vegas, he backs down from drunken Dutch Akin, and refuses to wear a gun. He buys stock from French Williams, of questionable morality, and hires French...

The Walking Drum (1985)

“The Walking Drum” is a historical novel set in 12th century Europe and the Middle East. Mathurin Kerbouchard, the main character, learns that his mother has been murdered in Brittany and that his father is now forced into servitude somewhere east of Baghdad and south of Tehran. Young Kerbouchard...

Bendigo Shafter (1983)

This book is amazing and everyone should drop what they're doing right now and go read it! Seriously, stop reading this review and just go read the book. :)Bendigo Shafter is our protagonist. At 18 he moves West in a wagon train with his brother's family and his younger sister. With winter coming...

Conagher (1982)

I read this for my adult lit class and I can now say that westerns are no my genre of choice! The story started out OK, but I soon found it a bit boring. The book starts out with the story of the Teale family. Evie and her children are trying to make it in the west and they happen to be settled n...

Borden Chantry (1988)

ΤσάντρυΈνας Λ'Αμούρ κάπως διαφορετικός από τα συνηθισμένα, μιας δω έχουμε να κάνουμε με μια αστυνομική ιστορία που εκτυλίσσεται σε μια μικρή πόλη της Άγριας Δύσης, Μάρσαλ της οποίας είναι ο πρώην κτηνοτρόφος και γελαδάρης Μπόρντεν Τσάντρυ. Μια μέρα σαν όλες τις άλλες το πτώμα ενός άντρα ανακαλύπτ...

The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986)

A WORD FROM LOUIS L’AMOUR   “Almost four decades ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in ‘pulp’ western magazines, I wrote a number of novel-length stories, known back then as ‘magazine novels.’ In creating them, I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as...

The Haunted Mesa: A Novel (1988)

To be honest, I felt like this book was just a hot mess. The short version of why I hated it: The narration was so awkward and circular and repetitive that I often had no idea where we were going with this, and nothing really happened in the first 300 pages. I couldn't figure out if the author wa...

Matagorda (1985)

Former Army Major, Tappan Duvarney, veteran of the Civil War,(the War between the States) and the Indian fighting , is tired.All he wants of life ,is a little money.So he can marry his fiancee, Jessica Trescott.Finally receiving just $ 7,000 of his wealthy, ship owning father's estate ,in Virg...

Reilly's Luck (2004)

Louis L'Amour is an old friend to all who devour his books. If you are looking for a technically perfect book, his work is not the place. There are often slight discontinuities in his work for example in this book he met Wild Bill for the first and last time then several chapters later met him ag...

Ride the Dark Trail (1984)

Loving it. The plot turns are awfully convenient, but I love the language, and then there's useful stuff like this:"I'd backed up against that grove on purpose. Looked at from down below no smoke would show against the white of the tree trunks and the gray-green of the leaves...There's no prettie...

The Trail to Crazy Man (1986)

A WORD FROM LOUIS L’AMOUR   “Almost forty years ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in ‘pulp’ western magazines, I wrote several novel-length stories, which my editors called ‘magazine novels.’ In creating them, I became so involved with my characters that their lives were stil...

Down the Long Hills (1984)

"A man doesn't have the claws a bear has, nor the strength of a bull. He doesn't have the nose of a wolf, nor the wings of a hawk, but he has a brain." p 57 "Try to foresee the worst things that could happen, and plan for them." p 58 "They say little pitchers have big ears, and they should have....

Taggart: A Novel (1982)

A blog review, written and published June 2, 2008.Adam Stark (no relation to Tony) has ventured into the heart of Apache country in search of gold, and he finds it. More than enough of it to buy the ranch somewhere near Tucson that he dreams of owning. The only drawback, other than being discov...

The Shadow Riders (1982)

I like reading Louis L'Amour books because you will not find a more compact, precisely-written story. No words are wasted and the story flows quickly from one chapter to the next. Yes, L'Amour was formulaic. No, there are rarely any surprises in his books. They are stories about challenges, e...

Son of a Wanted Man (1997)

Interesting premise of a young orphan raised by a very successful outlaw. The outlaw intends for the young man to become the heir to the outlaw empire while he retires to a quiet ranch with his wife and two daughters. The story is set in a tumultuous time in the wild West when trains and telegr...

Hanging Woman Creek (1994)

No Matter how many times I read a Louis L'Amour book from my "to be read" pile (or shelves in my case) I seem to still have about 5 left to read. I'm beginning to think they are breeding. Nevertheless, I always seem to enjoy them and really tend to use them as breaks between larger novels. Wit...

Shalako (1985)

Shalako, written by Louis L'Amour and published in 1962, is a classic western novel. The main protagonist, Shalako, is essentially what everyone epitomizes the hero of the Old West to be. Bold, smart, rugged, a dead eye shot, a loner, and an overall man's man. While out and about doing his manly ...

The Lonely Men (1984)

I'm rating this one down and I'm man enough to admit that it's mostly pique. The story is good and I've always liked Tell Sackett. This is the third featuring him and L'Amour is a better storyteller with each new book. The only trouble is, the first book featuring Tell ended with him together wit...

The Man Called Noon (1984)

He has no knowledge of who he is. He vaguely remembers falling from a window – and he knows that an angry mob is forming that wants to kill him. But other than that he has forgotten everything. It must have been the fall that wiped away his memory.He scrambles onto a departing train. The contents...

Education of a Wandering Man (1990)

No choicer gift can any man give to another than his spirit’s intimate converse with itself. Schleiermacher I would bet that Louis L’Amour would not be in the list of the first forty authors you might guess used a Schleiermacher quote as an epigraph for a chapter deep in his education autobiogr...

The High Graders (1989)

It's been a while since I read my last western novel so I chose The High Graders by Louis L'Amour, my 64th book by this author. In fact, with the completion of this book, I have now read more Louis L'Amour books than books by any other author. Number 2 only has 63...A "High Grader" for those th...

Flint (1997)

Η τελευταία σφαίραΈνατο βιβλίο του Λουίς Λ'Αμούρ που διαβάζω και μπορώ να πω ότι με διαφορά είναι το καλύτερο απ'όλα. Και αν τα προηγούμενα μου άρεσαν πολύ, τότε αυτό που μόλις τελείωσα σχεδόν με ενθουσίασε. Πως έχει η ιστορία: Ο εκατομμυριούχος Τζέιμς Τ. Κέτλεμαν αφήνει τον πολιτισμό και τα χρήμ...

The Cherokee Trail (1996)

Josh McClendonOctober 25, 2011Oral and Written CommunicationMr. BalesReview of the Cherokee TrailtThe Cherokee Trail was written by Louis Lamour. The author is known for his western pieces, many of them have become movies. This is a story based in Colorado around the 1860’s. This book is set in ...

From the Listening Hills: Stories (2004)

*** "From the Listening Hills" is twelve short stories by Louis L'Amour, mostly clever courage under hard circumstances. I enjoyed all the classic western action, except the title tragedy of a whole family persecuted and decimated by a rumor-monger villain. Two memorable unique crime tales, both ...

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 3: The Frontier Stories (2005)

Louis L'Amour is one of the masters of the Western. In a genre that is so often defined and confined by its cliches and archetypes, he wove wonderful stories about strong men and women on the frontier. His short stories are captivating tales, and this collection is a great presentation of that. Y...

Lando (1984)

ISBN from 1980 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Reviewed before https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... Grieving his wife, Falcon "Three heavy sacks of gold he passed over to Caffrey .. Care for him well, and every third coin is your own" p 270. But "too much for his principles to bear" p...

Last of the Breed (2005)

Warning: spoilers ahead! Exciting read. The story of a Red Indian escaping from a Siberian prison has much potential and the author seemed to have made the most of it. There is enough suspense, intrigue and entertainment to ensure one won't put the book down. The descriptions of the forest, lands...

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2: Frontier Stories (2004)

L'Amour is a great storyteller. These stories, although pretty much the same, were all interesting and exciting. It's like reading John Grisham or Clive Cussler. Hard to put down. It's light reading Western stories. Ever see the Lone Ranger on TV? It's the same - morality plays. The bad guy gets ...

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4: The Adventure Stories (2006)

Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West. Title: The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour Author: L'Amour, Louis Publisher: Random House Inc Publication Date: 2006/10/31 Number of Pages: 662 Binding Type: HARDCOVER Library of Congress: 2003062791

Under the Sweetwater Rim (1984)

Deep in Indian country, Major Mark Devereaux and his men find a grisly scene: a wagon train savagely attacked, with no survivors. One of the wagons originally with the group is missing; in it is a fortune in gold and Devereaux’s daughter, Mary. The slaughter, Devereaux learns, was not the work of...

Chancy (1984)

He was an orphan from the hills of Tennessee and he hadn’t eaten in three days. With the front of his stomach making friends with the back, he was in no position to let an opportunity slip by unnoticed. And when Chancy defended his new herd of cattle with a shotgun, he didn’t miss. The dead man l...

Last Stand at Papago Wells: A Novel (1998)

Louis L'Amour was a big part of my childhood and I appreciate him for helping excite me to read and value stories. So my four star rating is in (large?) part due to nostalgia.Last Stand at Papago Wells is one of my favorites because L'Amour deviates slightly from the Western pulp formula. There a...

Dutchman's Flat (1986)

TURN HOME, RIDER   In this land, the place you leave behind might not be there when you get back. At least not the way you knew it. Tack Gentry of the G Bar, Chat Lock of Dutchman’s Flat, and Ward McQueen of the Tumbling K knew how it felt to struggle against men who were trying to take from th...

Silver Canyon (1981)

Fueled by youth, courage, and quickness with a gun, Matt Brennan rode into Hattan's Point ready to live or die at a single challenge.  But in one day he was a changed man.  A beautiful woman had dared him to stay alive.  A powerful landowner had set him up for a beating.  And a good friend had di...

West of Dodge: Stories (1997)

WHERE THE REAL FRONTIER BEGINS   A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt. . . . A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge. . . . From purple sage to gambler’s gold, from a señorita’s tempting smile to a splash ...

With These Hands: Stories (2003)

The timeless fiction of Louis L'Amour is both unforgettable and undeniably American, deftly capturing the heroic bravery and intrepid spirit that make this nation great. L’Amour ’s legacy of work remains unparalleled, setting a standard of excellence that few other writers have matched. Now With ...

Guns of the Timberlands: A Novel (1984)

Spending the last 6 years to make his ranch the best, Clay Bell fought Indians, rustlers and the wilderness. On the other hand, Jud Devitt wants to remove timber off of the land where Clay lets cattle graze to deliver railroad ties for the Mexicans. Depleting these woods would cause mudslides whi...

Law of the Desert Born: Stories (1984)

Reiterates the constant theme of Passing Through, the drifter who feels morally obligated, or inspired by clear gray eyes on a tall slim redhead, to administer deeply needed justice. July 1983, L'Amour refused to sign unauthorized editions, unlike Harry Harrison in Galactic Dreams proud autograph...

West from Singapore (1987)

He's a two-fisted American adventurer and veteran of a hundred waterfront brawls.  He's "Ponga Jim" Mayo, and he minds his own business and leaves international intrigue to others.  But, as master of his own tramp freighter, trouble seeks him out as he navigates the treacherous East Indian seas f...

How the West Was Won: A Novel (1984)

They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who’d headed east to see the ocean but left his heart—and his home—in the West. They were wome...

Crossfire Trail (1997)

I might be primarily known for my love of contemporary YA, but everyone has their guilty pleasure genre, and mine is the good ole' Western. I don't know; the way these stories completely ignore having a message, but still champion values of right and wrong, while crafting characters just deep eno...

Kilrone (1981)

This was the first western novel I've read. The early pages were slow but the main battle scene was pretty good. I found myself reading as fast as I could once it started. The Indians were the most interesting part. They were patient and clever, but also courageous and lethal. They would jump in ...

Night Over the Solomons: Stories (1997)

LOUIS L’AMOUR’S FIGHTERS IN THE SKY   They’re freelance pilots and full-time troubleshooters for democracy. They’re men like Steven Cowan, Mike Thorne, and Turk Madden who face danger every day of their lives and fight like tigers for what they believe in. With the world on the brink of war, th...

The Tall Stranger: A Novel (1986)

Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of easterners Rock Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon ...

Valley of the Sun (1996)

Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes. . . . Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards. . . . Strong-willed señoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit. . . . Lawmen and outlaws ...

Louis L'Amour: The Ferguson Rifle/the Mountain Valley War/North to the Rails/Reilly's Luck/Tucker/Boxed Set (1991)

The Man from the Broken Hills (1996)

Milo Talon rides into Texas and hires as a ranch hand for Stirrup-Iron, and finds himself caught in the middle of cattle rustling and gunfighters. I found Milo's life was similar to Tell Sackett who was also a drifter. But Milo put more stock in education like his father (a Talon), even though ...

Mustang Man (1966)

We met Nolan Sackett in Mojave Crossing and it was pretty clear that there was more to him than met the eye. This book merely proves it. I can't help liking Nolan. He's a big galoot, better than he thinks he is, and fundamentally uncertain of his place in the world. Naturally, my heart went out t...

To Tame a Land (2007)

This was given to me as a gift, and I wanted to give the person that gave it to me feedback so I went ahead and finished it in one sitting immediately after receiving it. I was a bit skeptical, I love the western setting but this guy wrote like 500 of these books and they're all kind of short so ...

Off the Mangrove Coast: Stories (2001)

Such a range of stories and settings means Louis L’Amour likely has written a story for any and everyone. In this collection some of the stories are familiar to me although I don’t think I have specifically read any of his books before. Those people who have read or heard or seen films made from ...

Showdown on the Hogback (2005)

Tom Kedrick was hired to clear the land of vagrants and outlaws, but what he found was a settlement of hardworking ranchers. Unabridged. 5 CDs.

May There Be a Road: Stories (2002)

May There Be a Road is another in the growing collection of short stories written by Louis L’Amour in his early days. Most of these have been compiled by his son, Beau. As I understand it, this is to be the penultimate collection, with one more to follow. The included stories are clearly less pol...

Sitka (2001)

Sitka is one of three Louis L'Amour books published in 1957 and the 12th book of his I've read in my quest to read them all them by year of publication.Sitka is a bit different from the typical L'Amour book that I've read so far. Up until now most of L'Amour's stories have taken place in the US S...

Riders of the Dawn (2006)

This is a serial novel. It was originally written as a serial for a magazine, which means that it was published in parts and each issue of the magazine would publish a part. Serial novels (published like this were popular in the 1940's and 50's). These novels were full of action and not character...

Beyond the Great Snow Mountains: Stories (2000)

1/12/11......... in the begging of the book i was confused and didnt really know what i was reading about. then it got interesting, about murder, cattle being stole and boxing. theres times through out the book its becomes a death spruts.id say i like the other books hes made more, so when im don...

Collection 1988 - Lonigan (v5.0)

Many of the early wars in Scotland and Ireland were wars over stolen cattle, and many of the customs of western men can be traced to Scottish Highlanders. There was no set pattern of stealing cattle. Of course, the usual way was simply to round up a few cows on the range and drive them off. Anoth...

Novel 1968 - Brionne (v5.0)

It came gently, flowing through the gaps in the Blue Ridge Mountains and spilling over the valleys below, rustling the leaves outside the big house. They rustled, were still, then again they stirred. Mat Brionne, who was not quite seven, lay awake, listening. His father was in Washington to see P...

Novel 1971 - Tucker (v5.0)

That’s the way I’d like to be remembered as a storyteller. A good storyteller.” IT IS DOUBTFUL that any author could be as at home in the world re-created in his novels as Louis Dearborn L’Amour. Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally...

Kilkenny 03 - Kilkenny (v5.0)

There would be no avoiding the Tetlows or their riders. In the first place there were too many of them, and in the second the town was too small. What he wanted now was to find out what had been done, if anything. He was standing on the street when he saw Sheriff Macy come from his office in comp...

Novel 1955 - Heller With A Gun (v5.0)

Turning on his side, he glanced around. Healy was gone. The room was cool, the fire burned down to coals, glowing here and there. Mabry eased himself out of bed and tried his strength by standing. Shakily he moved to the fireplace. There was wood in the bin, and he built up the fire. Obviously He...

Novel 1987 - The Haunted Mesa (v5.0)

It had been over an hour since he had seen another car, a Navajo family in a pickup. He shivered. What was the matter with him? Ever since leaving the highway he had felt a growing uneasiness. Had he not traveled hundreds of lonely roads before this? Or was it that old memory, haunting him still?...

Novel 1962 - High Lonesome (v5.0)

The night was still. Only the crickets made their small music, and down by the livery stable a bay horse stamped restlessly, lifting his head, ears pricked. Another rider, a big man who sat easy in the saddle, rode up out of a draw and walked his horse along the alleyway leading to the town’s mai...

Novel 1963 - Fallon (v5.0)

In the course of an eventful life, Macon Fallon had become a connoisseur of western hospitality, and knew when a limit had been reached. Hence, when an escorting party, complete with rope, arranged to conduct him to the vicinity of a large cottonwood where the evening’s festivities would be concl...

Novel 1966 - The Broken Gun (v5.0)

That’s the way I’d like to be remembered as a storyteller. A good storyteller.” IT IS DOUBTFUL that any author could be as at home in the world re-created in his novels as Louis Dearborn L’Amour. Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally...

Collection 1999 - Beyond The Great Snow Mountains (v5.0)

This is as it should be. Louis’s work was his to dedicate as he chose. In this one particular instance my family and I have felt it was appropriate to step in and change that policy. John Veitch was our family’s great friend and his was one of the closest relationships that Louis, a man who had m...

Collection 1989 - Long Ride Home (v5.0)

In this case some of the activity takes place in San Francisco. Bull-Run Allen was a known man on the Barbary Coast and vicinity and his place at the corner of Sullivan Alley and Pacific Street was notorious. One-Ear Tim was also known and his ear was said to have been chewed off during a physica...

Novel 1954 - Utah Blaine (As Jim Mayo) (v5.0)

His eyes flared wide and he held himself still, staring into the darkness, his ears reaching for sound. He could smell the dry grass on which his blankets were spread and he could smell the night. And then he heard again the sound that had awakened him. It was the stir of hoofs on the dusty trail...

Novel 1974 - The Californios (v5.0)

“We will rest for a few minutes and water our horses.” Sean glanced up at the mountainous ridge before them. Judging from the growth they were probably three thousand feet or so above sea level, and at a guess the ridge before them, running roughly east and west, was three to four thousand feet h...

Novel 1959 - The First Fast Draw (v5.0)

The habit of carrying pistols on the hip had not developed to any extent, and hand guns were only becoming common now. The Dragoon and Walker Colts were too heavy for comfort. Usually, until now a pistol had been carried on the saddle, yet for a man who needed a weapon that could be brought swift...

Novel 1972 - Callaghen (v5.0)

Callaghen thought they might be of help. If he was attacked there would be shooting, and they might offer supporting fire. All he knew was the report from Garrick, that they were somewhere at the base of the peak before him. If they had not moved.Now he could see a greater distance. The sky was g...

Collection 1983 - The Hills Of Homicide (v5.0)

How did you find a man who did not want to be found when all you knew about him was that he was thirty-six years old and played a saxophone? Especially when some charred remains, tagged with this man’s name, had been buried in New Jersey? All you had to go on was a woman’s hunch. Not quite all. T...

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2 (2004)

The banker’s rooster, having several times proclaimed the fact that he was up and doing, walked proudly toward the dusty street. The banker, his shirttail hanging out, was just leaving the front door accompanied by two men, both dusty from hard riding. Outside the bank a rider clad in a linen dus...

The Lawless West

Beyond the mountain and around it was a wide land with no horizons, but only the shimmering heat waves that softened all lines to vagueness and left the desert an enchanted land without beginning and without end. As I rode, my mind studied the problem created by the situation around Cottonwood Wa...

Novel 1968 - Down The Long Hills (v5.0)

He had been sound asleep, and suddenly he was wide awake and listening. For a minute he heard nothing, then there was the sound of movement, and Big Red snorted angrily. Hardy slipped from under the buffalo coat and tiptoed to the door. For a moment he stood there listening, and he heard a low wh...

The Ferguson Rifle

I was tired of running and hiding. Slowly but steadily, anger had been building within me. Contemplation fits me better than rage. I am prone to consider before acting, and to take decisive action only when there is no other course. So far I had been guided by some instinct, some atavistic memory...

Novel 1966 - Kilrone (v5.0)

Just below the hill’s highest point there was a sandy hollow. No doubt the buffalo had begun it, rolling in the sand to rid themselves of ticks or fleas, but the wind had scoured the hollow, making it wider and deeper.Just over the highest rise of the hill there was a staggered cluster of juniper...

Novel 1981 - Comstock Lode (v5.0)

“You wished to see me?” He stood up. “I do, of course. You are an uncommonly beautiful woman, Margrita.” It was the first time he had addressed her by her given name, and she did not like it. If he was aware of her reaction, he indicated no evidence of it. “Thank you,” she acknowledged. The man w...

Collection 1986 - The Trail To Crazy Man (v5.0)

That’s the way I’d like to be remembered—as a storyteller. A good storyteller.” IT IS DOUBTFUL that any author could be as at home in the world re-created in his novels as Louis Dearborn L’Amour. Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally...

Collection 1980 - Yondering (v5.0)

The door at the foot of the stairs opened on the street beside a moneychanger’s stall, an inconspicuous place that one might pass a dozen times a day and never notice.At night I would go down into the streets and wander about or sit by my window and watch people going about their varied business....

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume Four (2006)

The sampan was there again, and the younger woman was sculling it in closer to the ship’s side. When she stopped, the old woman fastened a net on the end of a long stick and held it up to the rail, and Tony put some bread and meat into it. Every day they came alongside at about the same time, and...

Rivers West

“Let me say I had grounds for suspicion,” Miss Majoribanks replied. “And then this letter from my brother. When I received it, I acted at once. I got out the ledgers and read all the information we had on the Louisiana Territory, read the reports of Lewis and Clark and the letters from James Mack...

Collection 1997 - End Of The Drive (v5.0)

Here again I have dipped into that box and collected a group of stories that I think make up one of the most interesting books of short stories we have ever published. To some of you a few of these tales will seem familiar, and that is the fascinating thing about this particular book: five of the...

Novel 1966 - Kid Rodelo (v5.0)

He wanted no trouble. He had come here for a purpose, and if he could accomplish that purpose without a gunfight he would be satisfied. How he would fare in a gun battle with Joe Harbin he had no idea, but he knew that Harbin had not killed men by accident. He was a good shot and a tough man. Tom...

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1 (2003)

He lay on his back, hands clasped behind his head, trying not to think about breakfast. Three weeks ago he had been playing lead roles in Hearts of Oak, Hamlet, and Davy Crockett on successive nights. Then the bookings ran out, the play closed, and the manager skipped town with the company funds,...

Novel 1978 - The Proving Trail (v5.0)

I sat down on the bed.“Are you all right?” he asked sharply. “How did she come to be with you?”When I explained, he shook his head irritably. “She must have come in while I was in the garden. Damn the luck! Kearney, you must avoid her! She is the one, I am sure, whom your father warned me against...

Talon & Chantry 07 - North To The Rails (v5.0)

That’s the way I’d like to be remembered as a storyteller. A good storyteller.” IT IS DOUBTFUL that any author could be as at home in the world re-created in his novels as Louis Dearborn L’Amour. Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally...

Collection 1986 - Night Over The Solomons (v5.0)

That’s the way I’d like to be remembered as a storyteller. A good storyteller.” IT IS DOUBTFUL that any author could be as at home in the world re-created in his novels as Louis Dearborn L’Amour. Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally...

Novel 1986 - Last Of The Breed (v5.0)

It was an old, old cedar, over which many cold winds had blown, but now nothing stirred on the ridge, and Joe Mack lay quietly on the cold ground. Not far away, there was a drift of snow, and it showed a little darkness along its lower, southern edge, where some melting had begun. Spring was comi...

Novel 1956 - Silver Canyon (v5.0)

It was very hot, and it was still. Jagged ridges thrust themselves from the earth, their crevasses and deep-furrowed sides filled with blown white sand. A dust devil danced before me and I pushed on, seeing the roofs of the town take shape. There was no sound but that of my horse’s hoofs on the h...

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume Six (2008)

The narrow-faced man tipped his chair away from the gym wall and sat suddenly forward. Had he not known it to be impossible, he would have sworn the husky young heavyweight in the black trunks was none other than “Bat” McGowan, the champion of the world! Tall, bronzed, the fighter glided swiftly ...

Over on the Dry Side

Why Pa ever took a notion to stop on that old Chantry place I never did know. Maybe it was because he was just tired and wishful of stopping someplace…anyplace. There’d been a dead man on the steps by the door when we drove up. He’d been a long time dead, and nobody around to bury him, and I was ...