Louis L'Amour
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law and order. Here is one of the stories penned by America's favorite Western author with its text restored to the state of its initial publication in the magazine West in 1950.
It starts out innocently enough when Jim Gary comes upon the trail camp of three men pushing a herd of
...Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this second volume, Beau L’Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father’s notes, journal entries, and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written as well as speculating about the ways they might have ended. These selections include the beginnings of a post-apocalyptic science fiction tale,...
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Series
Frontera volume 6
Language
English
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Hondo Lane was a man who'd come to terms with the hard land in which he lived. He rode dispatch for General Crook through the Arizona desert--a severe and beautiful landscape where one mistake could lead to a quick and lonely death. It was on the way to deliver an important message about an imminent Apache raid that he came upon an isolated ranch defended by a lone woman and her young son. But Angie Lowe wasn't just any woman. She was a fighter with...
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Series
The Sacketts volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Barnabas Sackett carves a place for himself, his growing family, and a few close friends out of the harsh landscape.
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Series
The Sacketts volume 7
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
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End of the Drive is comprised of seven unforgettable, never-before-published tales, together with one complete novella. Here a boy of seventeen, yearning to prove he's a man, squares up against an outlaw ... and discovers that what counts is not how fast you can draw a gun but how much faith you have in yourself. A veteran trail driver, who's faced lightning and hail, raiding Comanche and thundering stampedes, finds that there's nothing quite so dangerous...
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L'Amour's great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It is she who will rule her people...
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English
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In this last of the Hopalong Cassidy novels, the author sends his hero to rescue cowboy Pete Melford. But it's too late, Melford has been shot and Cindy, his niece, swindled out of the ranch he left her. To catch the killers Cassidy goes undercover, signing on as a simple hand on their leader's ranch.
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Series
Kilkenny volume 0.1
Language
English
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Beyond the Chaparral; A Husband for Janey; West of Dodge; The.
Passing of Rope Nose; To Make a Stand; That Man from the Bitter.
Sands; Let The Cards Decide; Riches Beyond Dream; West of Dry.
Creek; Marshal of Canyon Gap; Home Is The Hunter; Rain on the.
Halfmoon; Stage to Willowspring; To Hang Me High; Afterword.
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Series
Hopalong Cassidy novels volume 2
Language
English
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"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 commit such a murder? To find out, Hopalong hires on at Bob Ronson's Rocking R Ranch. There he learns that more than a thousand cattle have been run off by men keeping one scheming eye on the ranch and the other on the...
13) Monument Rock
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Series
Kilkenny volume 3.5
Language
English
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Monument Rock reveals a time and place of desperate violence and true courage in a wide-open country of fortune seekers and dreamers, lawbreakers and pioneers. Meet a green lawman up against a seasoned killer, a wounded young drifter seeking solace in the arms of a woman, a ranch foreman who discovers the extent of destruction one bullet can cause, and a fiercely independent woman taking a stand against ruthless men.
14) Bowdrie: stories
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Series
Bowdrie volume 1
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English
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"It was a name that caused the most hardened gunmen to break out in a cold sweat. Chick Bowdrie. He could have ridden the outlaw trail, but the Texas Rangers recruited him because they didn't want to have to fight against him. Pursuing the most wanted men in the Southwest, he knew all too well the dusty trails, the bitter cattle feuds, the desperate killers, and the quiet, weather-beaten, wind-blasted towns that could explode into action with the...
15) Big country
Author
Series
Stories of Louis L'Amour volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Ride, you Tonto raiders: Matt Sabre finds himself on the special trail to the home of the man he gunned down. It was a rough and bitter trip from El Paso to the Mogollons in the Tonto Basin, where if a man saw a stranger, he shot him!
War party: A boy on the brink of manhood, a resourceful frontier woman who has beauty as well as fortitude, and a strong male character who is single and hence marriageable come together in this powerful, romantic,...
17) Fallon
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English
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Macon Fallon thinks that all he needs is a gun, a deck of cards, and a fast horse, until he finds himself ready to defend the reclaimed mining town that has become his home from a vicious gang of outlaws, even if it costs him his life.
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Series
The Sacketts volume 3
Language
English
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When an Indian brings news to Yance Sackett that his sister-in-law and a woman reputed to be a witch have been kidnapped by the bloodthirsty Pequot Indians, Yance and his brother Kin set out to find them. Searching the dangerous Warrior's Path, an old war trail that led from the vicinity of Chattanooga to Boston, they discover that ruthless white slavers, exploiting tensions between the settlers and the Indians, are behind the kidnapping. With the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid." This was the boy's mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather. Johannes Verne was soon to be rescued by outlaws, but no one could save him from the lasting memory of his grandfather's eyes, full of impenetrable hatred. Raised in part by Indians, then befriended by a mysterious woman, Johannes grew up to become a rugged adventurer and an educated man. But even now,...
20) The high graders
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English
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The town of Rafter Crossing had been simmering for some time when Mike Shevlin rode in. The quiet ranching community has turned into a booming mining town, and the newfound wealth has made Rafter Crossing anything but peaceful. The cattlemen are bound and determined to close down the mines because they're poisoning the range water. And the miners are stealing the high-grade ore that rightfully belongs to Laine Tennison. Mike Shevlin's mission is to...