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Frontier Stories and The American West: Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour (March 22, 1908 - June 10, 1988)
Born: Louis Dearborn LaMoore, Jamestown, North Dakota
Pen Names: Tex Burns, Jim Mayo

1st Published Story: Anything for a Pal   1935 in "True Gang Life" Magazine
1st Published Novel:  Westward the Tide  (London, England 1950; first US publication 1976)
Final Novel: The Haunted Mesa (1987)




Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour has often been described as "America's favorite story teller". His novels and stories of the American frontier and the west have been among my personal favorites since I first began reading.

The Sacketts

The story of Louis L'Amour's fictional Sackett family begins with Barnabas Sackett leaving The Fens of Cambridgeshire in East Anglia (England). Arriving in America he founds the Sackett clan, a family of strong men and women who move westward with the expansion of the United States.


Sackett Characters

Barnabas Sackett
Kin Ring Sackett
Brian Sackett
Yance Sackett
Jubal Sackett
Ethan Sackett
Echo Sackett
Em (Sackett) Talon
Milo Talon (Cousin)
Parmalee Sackett
William Tell Sackett
Orrin Sackett
Tyrel Sackett
Falcon Sackett
Orlando Sackett
Nolan Sackett
Logan Sackett
Flagan Sackett
Galloway Sackett

Series

Hopalong Cassidy (writing as Tex Burns)

The Riders of High Rock (1951)
The Rustlers of West Fork (1951)
The Trail to Seven Pines (1951)
Trouble Shooter (1952)


Kilkenny

Kilkenny (1954)
The Rider of Lost Creek (1976)
The Mountain Valley War (A Man Called Trent)(1978)
A Gun for Kilkenny (1997)
Monument Rock

Sacketts (Listed in the reading order suggested by the author)

1. Sackett's Land (1974)
2. To the Far Blue Mountains (1976)
3. The Warrior's Path (1980)
4. Jubal Sackett (1985)
5. Ride the River (1983)
6. The Daybreakers (1960)
7. The Courting of Griselda (in End of the Drive )
8. Sackett (1961)
9. Lando (1962)
10. Booty for a Badman (in War Party )

11. Mojave Crossing (1964)
12. Mustang Man (1966)
13. The Lonely Men (1969)
14. Galloway (1970)
15. Treasure Mountain (1972)
16. Lonely on the Mountain (1980)
17. Ride the Dark Trail (1972)
18. The Sackett Brand (1965)
19. The Sky-Liners (1967)
The Sackett Companion : A Personal Guide to the Sackett Novels (1988)


Talon and Chantry

North to the Rails (1971)
The Ferguson Rifle (1973)
The Man from the Broken Hills (1975)
Over On the Dry Side (1975)
Rivers West (1975)
Borden Chantry (1977)
Fair Blows the Wind (1978)
Milo Talon (1981)


Other Novels

Westward the Tide (1950)
Crossfire Trail (1953)
Hondo (1953)
Showdown at Yellow Butte (1953) (writing as Jim Mayo)
Utah Blaine (1954) (writing as Jim Mayo)
To Tame a Land (1955)
Guns of the Timberlands (1955)
Heller with a Gun (1955)
The Burning Hills (1956)
Silver Canyon (1956)
Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957)
Sitka (1957)
Radigan (1958)
The First Fast Draw (1959)
Taggart (1959)
Flint (1960)
Killoe (1962)
High Lonesome (1962)
Shalako (1962)
Dark Canyon (1963)
Catlow (1963)
Fallon (1963)
How the West Was Won (1963)
Hanging Woman Creek (1964)
Kiowa Trail (1964)
Key-lock Man (1965)
The High Graders (1965)
Kilrone (1966)
Kid Rodelo (1966)
The Broken Gun (1966)
Matagorda (1967)
Chancy (1968)
Down the Long Hills (1968)
Brionne (1968)
The Tall Stranger (1969)
The Empty Land (1969)
Conagher (1969)
The Man Called Noon (1970)
Reilly's Luck (1970)
Under the Sweetwater Rim (1971)
Tucker (1971)
Callaghen (1972)
The Man from Skibbereen (1973)
The Quick and the Dead (1973)
The Californios (1974)
Where the Long Grass Blows (1976)
Bendigo Shafter (1978)
The Iron Marshal (1979)
The Proving Trail (1979)
Comstock Lode (1981)
The Cherokee Trail (1982)
The Shadow Riders (1982)
The Lonesome Gods (1983)
Rawhide Range (1983)
Son of a Wanted Man (1984)
Walking Drum (1984)
Passin' Through (1985)
Last of the Breed (1986)
Man Riding West (1986)
West of Pilot Range (1986)
South of Deadwood (1986)
A Trail to the West (Chick Bowdrie Series) (1986)
Where Buzzards Fly: Chick Bowdrie (1986)

The Haunted Mesa (1987)
Case Closed - No Prisoners (1987)
Bowdrie Passes Through (1988)
One for the Mohave Kid (1988)
Stay Out of My Nightmare (1989)
Too Tough To Brand (1989)
Grub Line Rider (1990)
Bill Carey Rides West (1990)
Down the Pogonip Trail (1990)
Merrano of the Dry Country (1990)
The Road to Casa Piedras: A Chick Bowdrie Story (1990)
The Town No Guns Could Tame (1991)
Booty for a Bad Man (1991)
Get Out of Town (1991)
Keep Travelin' Rider (1991)
One for the Pot (1991)
Ride You Tonto Raiders (1991)
Showdown Trail (1992)
Bowdrie Follows a Cold Trail (1992)
A Job For a Ranger (1992)
Lit a Shuck for Texas (1992)
McQueen of the Tumbling K (1992)
Mule for Santa Fe (1992)
The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon (1992)
The Turkeyfeather Riders (1993)
Ranger Gets His Man (1993)
The Black Rock Coffin Makers (1993)
Desert Death Song (1993)
Four Card Draw (1993)
Outlaws of Poplar Creek: A Chick Bowdrie Story (1993)
Down Sonora Way (1994)
His Brother's Debt (1995)
Horse Heaven (1995)
The Marshall of Sentinel (1995)
Far Blue Mountains (1996)
Fork Your Own Broncs (1996)
More Brains than Bullets (1996)
Strawhouse Trail (1997)
Killer from the Pecos (1998)
Medicine Ground (1998)
Love and the Cactus Kid (1999)
Survival (1999)
Unguarded Moment (1999)
Western Classics (1999)
Dead Man's Trail (2000)
Mistakes Can Kill You (2000)
No Man's Man (2000)
Rain on the Mountain Fork (2001)
Fighter's Fiasco (2002)
Four Card Draw / Keep Travelin' Rider / Dutchmans Flat / His Brothers Debt (2002)
Strange Pursuit (2002)
That Triggernometry Tenderfoot (2002)
The Sixth Shotgun (2003)
Strong Shall Live/ Keep Travelin' Rider (2003)
West of the Tularosas (2004)
Bowdrie Rides a Coyote Trail (2004)
Ranger Rides to Town: Chick Bowdrie Series (2004)
Lone Star Law (2005)
Home in the Valley (2005)
Showdown on the Hogback (2005)
There's Always a Trail (2005)
Big Medicine (2009)
Law of the Desert (2009)
Dawn Riders (2010)



Collections

Smoke from This Altar (poems) (1939)
War Party (1975)
The Strong Shall Live (1979)
Yondering (1980)
Buckskin Run (1981)
Bowdrie (1983)
The Hills of Homicide (1983)
Bowdrie's Law (1983)
Law of the Desert Born (1983)
The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986)
The Trail to Crazy Man (1986)
Dutchman's Flat: And Other Western Stories (1986)
Riding for the Brand (1986)
Night over the Solomons (1986)
Lonigan (1988)
Long Ride Home (1989)
The Outlaws of Mesquite: A New Collection of Frontier Stories (1990)
West from Singapore (1991)
The Louis L'Amour Companion (1992)
L'Amour Round-Up (1993)
Valley of the Sun: Frontier Stories (1995)
West of Dodge: Frontier Stories (1996)

The Guns Talk Loud (1996)
End of the Drive (1997)
The Best of Louis L'Amour: The Collection (1997)
More American West in Fiction (1997)
Monument Rock (1998)
Beyond the Great Snow Mountains: A Collection of Short Stories (1999)
The Best of the West (1999)
The Ultimate Louis L'Amour Collection (1999)
Off the Mangrove Coast: A Collection of Short Stories (2000)
May There Be a Road (2001)
Great Mysteries(2001)
With These Hands (2002)
Stories of the Golden West (2002)
The Louis L'Amour Short Story Collection (2002)
Classics from Louis L'Amour (2003)
From the Listening Hills (2003)
The Golden West (2003) (with Max Brand, Zane Grey)
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'amour (2003)
Red Butte Showdown (2003)
Lost Trails (2007) (with Loren D Estleman, William W Johnstone, Elmer Kelton)



Non fiction

Frontier (1984)
A Trail of Memories: The Quotations of Louis L'amour (1988)
Education of a Wandering Man (1989)

 

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