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Yondering is a collection of short stories by American author Louis L'Amour, published in 1980.A departure from L'Amour's traditional subject matter of the Old West, Yondering contains a mix of adventure stories and character studies, primarily set in the first half of the 20th century.
Louis Dearborn L'Amour (/ ˈ l uː i l ə ˈ m ʊər /; né LaMoore; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer.His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories".
Louis L'Amour's Chick Bowdrie character was written for the pulp magazines of the 40s and 50s. The first Chick Bowdrie adventure A Job for a Ranger appeared in the December 1946 issue of Popular Western. The last Chick Bowdrie story Strange Pursuit was published in the April 1952 issue of Texas Rangers. [4]
Silver Canyon is a novel written by Louis L'Amour set in south-central Utah Territory in 1881. It was originally published in a shorter version, named Riders of the Dawn, in the magazine Giant Western in June 1951. [1] It then was published in hardback in 1956 by Avalon Books and in paperback by Bantam Books in 1957.
Harold Hinds Jr. takes a wide look at Louis L'Amour's fiction and asserts, “L’Amour’s immense popularity rests on his superb storytelling and on his ability to write masterfully within the tradition of the popular American Western . . . The typical Western is an action-packed thriller set in the American West between 1865 and 1890.
First edition (publ. Bantam Books) Shalako is a 1962 Western novel by Louis L'Amour and the name of a town that the author intended to build. [1] It would have been a working town typical of those of the nineteenth-century Western frontier. Funding for the project fell through, and Shalako, which would have been named in honor of the ...
L'Amour has left the ending to the imagination of the reader in this novel. L'Amour confirmed to Dr. John Sackett that he found the name on Sackett's Well in a place west of Yuma. The desert watering hole was named for cavalry Lt. Delos B. Sackett who was an Indian fighter in the region before the Civil War. L'Amour has used names and places ...
The Walking Drum is a novel by the American author Louis L'Amour.Unlike most of his other novels, The Walking Drum is not set in the frontier era of the American West, but rather is an historical novel set in the Middle Ages—12th-century Europe and the Middle East.
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