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Louis L'Amour
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
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
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English
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Now published for the first time in hardcover is Rider of Lost Creek as originally published in West magazine in 1947. Lance Kilkenny has the reputation of being the fastest gun in the West. One day some time back Mort Davis saved kilkenny's life and now Davis has sent out word that he need kilkenny's help. Mort has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the Live Oak contry. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele...
Author
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
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 still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared became collector’s
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
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...
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...
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Language
English
Description
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 walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson. Gritty, tough, and unflinchingly authentic, here is...
Author
Language
English
Description
Two men in the isolated town of Tucker want the XY ranch—Jim Walker and the ruthless Wing Cary—and one of them wants it badly enough to kill for it.
The Black Rock Coffin Makers is a tale of suspense and danger, with chases, shootouts, double-crosses and posses, all for possession of the XY ranch.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Description
One of the most popular fictional creations of our time, the chronicle of the Sackett family is also one of Louis L’Amour’s crowning achievements—and these two magnificent novels are proof .
Sackett
A drifter by circumstance, William Tell Sackett hungered for a place he couldn’t name but knew he had to find. South of the Tetons, through a keyhole pass, he found it: a lonely yet beautiful valley—with a fortune...
Sackett
A drifter by circumstance, William Tell Sackett hungered for a place he couldn’t name but knew he had to find. South of the Tetons, through a keyhole pass, he found it: a lonely yet beautiful valley—with a fortune...
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Series
Language
English
Description
King Bill Hale has decided he wants the graze in the high country for his cattle and to get it he must drive out the nesters. Enlisting his gunslinging killer son, Cub, as the means to get to his ends, Hale doesn't reckon with the newcomer, Trent -- a man siding with the nesters-- who will alter the course of events.
9) Hondo
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English
Description
He was etched by the deserts howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Smoke From This Altar, a book that has become legendary among Louis L'Amour readers, is the very first book L'Amour ever published. It appeared, to great critical praise, for sale only in Oklahoma bookstores more than fifty years ago. Since then it has become the most sought-after L'Amour title of all, with the few circulating copies from the small print run commanding top dollar from rare book collectors. Now, at last, it is being published...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Shalako
He was a white man as cunning as any Indian, a loner who trusted in nothing but his weapon and his horse. But then Shalako came across a European hunting party, and a brave and beautiful woman, stranded and defenseless in the Sonoran Desert—the Apaches’ killing ground. Shalako knew he had to stay and help them survive. For somewhere out there a deadly Apache warrior had the worst kind of death in mind for them...
He was a white man as cunning as any Indian, a loner who trusted in nothing but his weapon and his horse. But then Shalako came across a European hunting party, and a brave and beautiful woman, stranded and defenseless in the Sonoran Desert—the Apaches’ killing ground. Shalako knew he had to stay and help them survive. For somewhere out there a deadly Apache warrior had the worst kind of death in mind for them...
12) La marca Sackett
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
La serie de los Sackett, llena de las emocionantes historias de la frontera indómita, es una de las mayores contribuciones de Louis L’Amour a la ficción americana. En La Marca Sackett, L’Amour desarrolla la historia de un hombre valiente que debe enfrentar situaciones extremadamente arriesgadas para rastrear a un asesino.
Un Sackett Hará Cualquier Cosa Por Encontrar Justicia
Tell Sackett estaba a kilómetros...
Un Sackett Hará Cualquier Cosa Por Encontrar Justicia
Tell Sackett estaba a kilómetros...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
Hace noventa años, los hermanos Toomey, en compañía de otros 25 hombres y cuatro mil cabezas de ganado, se esfumaron camino a Arizona. Cuando es escritor e historiador Dan Sheridan es invitado al rancho de los hermanos desaparecidos por su actual dueño, no deja escapar la oportunidad. La visita concuerda de maravilla con su plan de aclarar ese misterio de cien años de antigüedad – pero el hecho es que su anfitrión...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Gaylord Riley se alejó de la banda de Coburn, llevaba dinero y un sueño. Trabajó duro y construyó una cabaña, reunió una manada de reses y se enamoró de Marie Shattuck.
Pero al enfrentar falsas acusaciones de robo de ganado y asesinato, Riley se v e obligado a defender su nuevo estilo de vida de ciudadano respetuoso de la ley. Superado en número, y de cara a un escuadrón de linchamiento, Riley...
Pero al enfrentar falsas acusaciones de robo de ganado y asesinato, Riley se v e obligado a defender su nuevo estilo de vida de ciudadano respetuoso de la ley. Superado en número, y de cara a un escuadrón de linchamiento, Riley...
15) Los Madrugadores
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
En Las madrugadores, Louis L’Amour narra la historia de dos hermanos que no pueden ser más distintos—pero cuyo espíritu inquieto les mantiene unidos.
Para pelear con Orrin Sackett tenías que provocarle, pero su hermano Tyrel era el extremo opuesto. Tye nació para buscarse pleitos, y la noche que se interpuso entre su hermano y una bala cambió para siempre el rumbo de sus vidas.
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Para pelear con Orrin Sackett tenías que provocarle, pero su hermano Tyrel era el extremo opuesto. Tye nació para buscarse pleitos, y la noche que se interpuso entre su hermano y una bala cambió para siempre el rumbo de sus vidas.
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Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
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 honesty made him the biggest sucker in town. There's champion rodeo rider Marty Mahan, called a coward because he was afraid of the bronc Ghost...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
For years Milo Talon had been riding the outlaw trail, looking for a man who had betrayed his family. Only Hank Rossiter wasn’t the man he had been: old now and blind, Rossiter was trying desperately to hold on to a small ranch to support his daughter, Barbara. Suddenly Talon found himself in the middle of a range war, siding with the man he’d marked for payback. But had Rossiter really changed? And could his daughter be trusted by either...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
En un breve instante, una caída borró su memoria. Ahora, de lo único que estaba seguro era de que alguien lo quería muerto… y que era mejor que averiguara por qué. Pero parecía que en cada sitio al que llegaba había aún más interrogantes… o más personas demasiado dispuestas a ocultar la verdad detrás de una cortina de humo compuesta de mentiras. Tenía únicamente el nombre...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Radigan
Tom Radigan spent four hard years building up his ranch. Now a beautiful and deadly opportunist presents him with “evidence” that the land belongs to her. Angelina Foley wants Radigan off Vache Creek immediately, and with an outfit of gunfighters to back her and winter coming on, she’s not taking no for an answer. Outmanned, outgunned, and legally outmaneuvered, Radigan isn’t going anywhere. Not without fighting...
Tom Radigan spent four hard years building up his ranch. Now a beautiful and deadly opportunist presents him with “evidence” that the land belongs to her. Angelina Foley wants Radigan off Vache Creek immediately, and with an outfit of gunfighters to back her and winter coming on, she’s not taking no for an answer. Outmanned, outgunned, and legally outmaneuvered, Radigan isn’t going anywhere. Not without fighting...
20) Lost Trails
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
They are the stuff of legend, thundering out of the harsh landscapes and stunning vistas of the American West, vividly lodged in our collective imaginations. From Buffalo Bill to Billy the Kid, from Cochise to Jesse James, these names and so many others screamed across newspaper and dime store magazine headlines while the Wild West was won.
Lost Trails features inventive, hard-riding, action-packed stories by America's best Western writers. Louis...
Lost Trails features inventive, hard-riding, action-packed stories by America's best Western writers. Louis...