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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.
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".
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.
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.
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]
Five Mile Creek is a western television drama series adapted from Louis L'Amour's novel The Cherokee Trail and produced in Australia. It starred Liz Burch, Louise Caire Clark, Rod Mullinar, Jay Kerr, Michael Caton, Peter Carroll, Gus Mercurio, Martin Lewis, Priscilla Weems and Nicole Kidman.
First edition (publ. Bantam Books) Cover art by Franco Accornero. Last of the Breed, is a 1987 book by Louis L'Amour. It tells the fictional story of Native American United States Air Force pilot Major Joseph Makatozi (Joe Mack), captured by the Soviets over the Bering Strait. The story follows his escape from captivity through the Siberian ...
Hokart does not show up at the designated meeting spot, but the next day, Mike receives a package from him, delivered by a woman. A man breaks into his room to try to steal the package and is chased off with an Eric Ambler book and a threat from a .357 Magnum. The package contains Hokart's journal of his quasi-archaeological expedition.