Collection 1997 - End Of The Drive (v5.0) - Plot & Excerpts
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 these stories were the genesis of later novels. But unlike the novellas collected in The Trail to Crazy Man and The Rider of the Ruby Hills, these are not simply a shorter version of the later novels; they are early experiments in characterization and plot that were altered substantially when they were enlarged to book form. Since Dad almost never did any rewriting, this is also one of the very few occasions any of us will have to see an early or “first” draft of a book by Louis L’Amour. In comparing the short stories to the novels you can see the ways the stories evolved as they were developed into a longer form. I’ve put together a few notes here that might be of interest regarding the evolution of the stories in this collection.
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