Louis Dearborn L'Amour (1908-1988) was born in a small town in North Dakota, and as such was a source of awe and wonder growing up on those High Plains. Now, today, I get to go and visit the scenes of his stories. It is a true joy to stumble across a wagon road or coulee from one tale or another--if he said there's a river crossing or cavern someplace, you can count on it being there.

No matter what you think of the stories, these are snapshots of men and women in a new land. In God's chosen country. Some adapt, get along and survive. Others buck the land and get thrown.

L'Amour Novels

Borden Chantry
Brionne
The Broken Gun
The Burning Hills
Callaghen
Chancy
Crossfire Trail
The First Fast Draw
Flint
Guns of the Timberlands
Hanging Woman Creek
Hondo
How the West Was Won
The Iron Marshal
Kid Rodelo
Kilrone
Kowa Trail
Last of the Breed
The Lonesome Gods
Milo Talon
Passin' Through
The Quick and the Dead
The Tall Stranger
Under the Sweetwater Rim
Utah Blaine
Where theLong Grass Blows

Short Story Collections

Law of the Desert Born
Long Ride Home
The Outlaws of the Mesquite
The Rider of the Ruby Hills

Sackett Clan

Sackett's Land
Ride the River
Mustang Man
The Lonely Men
Galloway
Lonely on the Mountain

Other L'Amour stuff

A Trail of Memories:  Quotations of Louis L'Amour
Robert Weinberg's Louis L'Amour Companion

 

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