Louis L'Amour
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Early in Louis L'Amour's career, he wrote a number of novel-length stories for "pulp" Western magazines. "I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared went out of print," he said. "I wanted to tell the reader more about my people and why they did what they did." So he revised and expanded these magazine works to be published again as full-length...
2) Bannon
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Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon. He has fully recovered when the train pulls into a fort to stock up on supplies. It is there that the leaders of the train meet Morton Harper, a smooth-talking man who persuades them to take an easier trail that will allow them to escape an attack by Indians. Bannon knows that there will be no escape from attack on that route and that it will lead the train directly...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
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Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest timber off the land where Clay grazes his cattle. Backing Devitt are shady politicians, a dishonest banker, and...
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This collection of six exciting Western stories from early in Louis L'Amour's career begins with "Fork Your Own Broncs," in which Mac Marcy, who had saved for seven years to run his own small cattle ranch, sees his dream come true, only to have it threatened by Jingle Bob Kenyon.
In "Keep Travelin', Rider," Tack Gentry returns to Sunbonnet and his uncle's G Bar Ranch only to find that his uncle, a Quaker, has been killed in a gunfight. A faction...
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Edge-of-your-seat thrillers from the greatest Western author ever.
There will never be another Western writer like Louis L'Amour. A legendary author and indisputably the greatest storyteller in his genre of all time, L'Amour captivated millions of readers and has sold well over three hundred million copies of his works, which includes nearly ninety novels and countless short stories.
Mistakes Can Kill You highlights an essential selection featuring...
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A collection of some of the best short fiction writing from the most famous Western author of all time.
Louis L'Amour is indisputably the most famous and well-respected writer to ever work in the Western genre. His stories captured life on the frontier at its most captivating and exciting, and with well over two hundred million copies sold of his work, his characters and stories have left an indelible mark on popular culture.
Home in the Valley collects...
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Louis L'Amour brings the Wild West back to life in three unstoppable adventures!
"Mistakes Can Kill You" is the story of Johnny O'Day. Half-dead from pneumonia and on the brink of giving up, he was taken in as a boy and nursed back to health by a young couple. Growing up, Johnny harbored nothing but resentment and jealousy of their biological son, Sam. But now Sam is in big trouble, and it seems that Johnny may be the only person who can come between...
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Desert Death-Song compiles some of Louis L'Amour's greatest stories, many of which have been hard to find in book form. Whether he was writing under his early pen name, Jim Mayo, or his own, L'Amour's stories are unforgettable, touching on rough and rugged American ideals and set in the untamable frontier of the Western United States.
Nearly a dozen stories are presented here that represent the best of L'Amour's yarn-spinning writing, a choice collection...
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Louis L'Amour's Western stories are beloved worldwide. Now, collected together for the first time in a single volume, are three of his finest tales of the West. The texts have been restored to their original appearances in magazines. In "The Lion Hunter and the Lady," Cat Morgan is plying his trade-trying to bag a mountain lion alive in order to sell it to a circus or zoo. As he and Long John William try to lure the cat from a tree, they're interrupted...
10) Draw Straight
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This collection of six exciting Western stories from early in Louis L'Amour's career begins with "Fork Your Own Broncs," in which Mac Marcy, who had saved for seven years to run his own small cattle ranch, sees his dream come true, only to have it threatened by Jingle Bob Kenyon.
In "Keep Travelin', Rider," Tack Gentry returns to Sunbonnet and his uncle's G Bar Ranch only to find that his uncle, a Quaker, has been killed in a gunfight. A faction...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
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Louis L'Amour said the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." The two stories in this collection provide a good sample of the kinds of people he had in mind.
"Ride, You Tonto Raiders"
Matt Sabre is a young and experienced gunfighter—but not a trouble seeker. However, when Billy Curtin calls him a liar and goes for his gun, Matt has no choice but to draw
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Louis L'Amour is now one of the most iconic Western writers of all time, but once upon a time he was Jim Mayo, a regular writer for the pulps. Some of the tales he wrote in those days stuck with him enough that he later revised and expanded them into novels. But there was a special magic to the originals, and after research and restoration, these stories appear here now in their original form.
In "The Trail to Peach Meadow Cañon," Mike Bastian,...
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Collected for the first time in a single book are six of L'Amour's finest Western stories. The texts have been restored according to how they first appeared in their initial publication in magazines.
Jim Sandifer knows he'll lose his job at the B Bar Ranch as well as the girl he's sweet on when he prevents a raid by some B Bar men on the Katrischen Spread in "The Turkeyfeather Riders."
In "Four Card Draw," Allen Ring wins a small ranch-until the...
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In the first in this trio of Western stories by Louis L'Amour-"Black Rock"-Jim Gatlin, a Texas trail driver, arrives in the town of Tucker where he finds himself quickly drawn into the middle of an all-out battle for the XY Ranch when, due to a case of mistaken identity, he kills the segundo of Wing Cary's Flying C Ranch. Gatlin is a dead-ringer for Jim Walker, who, like Cary, wants control of the XY. Gatlin is thrown into a situation in which all...
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From the master of Western storytelling comes a collection of six action-packed tales sure to please Louis L'Amour's legion of fans.
In "Trap of Gold," Wetherton has been three months out of Horsehead when he finds his first color in a crumbling granite upthrust that resembles a fantastic ruin. The granite is slashed with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold! The problem is that the granite upthrust is unstable, and taking out the quartz...
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A collection of two stories by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "The Sixth Shotgun," Leo Carver has been sentenced to hang for holding up a stage, killing the driver and the guard, and stealing the gold they were transporting. He is convicted despite his protests of innocence, but questions soon arise over what really happened."The Rider of the Ruby Hills" is the story of Ross Haney, who rides into Ruby Hills country hoping to settle down. What...
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In “McQueen of the Tumbling K,” Ward McQueen, foreman for the Tumbling K Ranch, rides into town and is shot down by gunmen and left for dead. But they made a critical mistake because McQueen is not dead—and he's looking to get even. In “Big Medicine,” Old Billy Dunbar has discovered the best gold-bearing gravel he had found in a year, but now he is lying face down in a ravine, hiding from Apaches. He's going to need a good strategy to get...
18) Diamond of Jeru
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Books on Tape
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2015
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Deep within the jungles of Borneo flows a legendary river of diamonds …
An ex-Marine on the run from the nightmares of war. An American scientist and his beautiful wife on a desperate journey to save their marriage. An aging native shaman trying to teach his grandson one last, all important, lesson. All are headed up an uncharted river into a confrontation with a mysterious warlord trapped by a deadly...
An ex-Marine on the run from the nightmares of war. An American scientist and his beautiful wife on a desperate journey to save their marriage. An aging native shaman trying to teach his grandson one last, all important, lesson. All are headed up an uncharted river into a confrontation with a mysterious warlord trapped by a deadly...
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In “Law of the Desert,” Shad Marone is on the run. He shot a man in a fair fight; but the sheriff is his bitter enemy, and Shad knows he'll never get a fair trial. In “Desert Death Song,” Nat Bodine is given a choice: to die by hanging or take his chances in the desert. But when a good woman believes in a man, he finds the will to survive.
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Here are two exciting adventures from the pen of the Louis L'Amour. In “Trap of Gold, Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first color, in a crumbling granite upthrust with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold! The problem is that the rocks are unstable, and taking out the quartz might just bring the whole thing tumbling down. In “Trail to Pie Town,” Dusty Barron rode his stallion at full gallop out of...