Imatge de l'autor

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988)

Autor/a de Last of the Breed

804+ obres 82,730 Membres 1,030 Ressenyes 103 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 22, 1908, Louis L'Amour's adventurous life could have been the subject of one of his novels. Striking out on his own in 1923, at age 15, L'Amour began a peripatetic existence, taking whatever jobs were available, from skinning dead cattle to being a sailor. mostra'n més L'Amour knew early in life that he wanted to be a writer, and the experiences of those years serve as background for some of his later fiction. During the 1930s he published short stories and poetry; his career was interrupted by army service in World War II. After the war, L'Amour began writing for western pulp magazines and wrote several books in the Hopalong Cassidy series using the pseudonym Tex Burns. His first novel, Westward the Tide (1950), serves as an example of L'Amour's frontier fiction, for it is an action-packed adventure story containing the themes and motifs that he uses throughout his career. His fascination with history and his belief in the inevitability of manifest destiny are clear. Also present and typical of L'Amour's work are the strong, capable, beautiful heroine who is immediately attracted to the equally capable hero; a clear moral split between good and evil; reflections on the Native Americans, whose land and ways of life are being disrupted; and a happy ending. Although his work is somewhat less violent than that of other western writers, L'Amour's novels all contain their fair share of action, usually in the form of gunfights or fistfights. L'Amour's major contribution to the western genre is his attempt to create, in 40 or more books, the stories of three families whose histories intertwine as the generations advance across the American frontier. The novels of the Irish Chantry, English Sackett, and French Talon families are L'Amour's most ambitious project, and sadly were left unfinished at his death. Although L'Amour did not complete all of the novels, enough of the series exists to demonstrate his vision. L'Amour's strongest attribute is his ability to tell a compelling story; readers do not mind if the story is similar to one they have read before, for in the telling, L'Amour adds enough small twists of plot and detail to make it worth the reader's while. L'Amour fans also enjoy the bits of information he includes about everything from wilderness survival skills to finding the right person to marry. These lessons give readers the sense that they are getting their money's worth, that there is more to a L'Amour novel than sheer escapism. With over 200 million copies of his books in print worldwide, L'Amour must be counted as one of the most influential writers of westerns in this century. He died from lung cancer on June 10, 1988. (Bowker Author Biography) Louis L'Amour, truly America's favorite storyteller, was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress in honor of his life's work, & was also awarded the Medal of Freedom. There are over 260 million copies of his books in print worldwide. (Publisher Provided) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Louis L'Amour

Last of the Breed (1986) 1,722 exemplars
The Haunted Mesa (1987) 1,380 exemplars
The Walking Drum (1984) 1,354 exemplars
Sackett's Land (1974) 1,265 exemplars
Jubal Sackett (1985) 1,234 exemplars
Hondo (1953) 1,212 exemplars
To the Far Blue Mountains (1976) 1,176 exemplars
Sackett (1961) 1,159 exemplars
The Daybreakers (1960) 1,150 exemplars
The Lonesome Gods (1983) 1,117 exemplars
Education of a Wandering Man (1989) 1,097 exemplars
The Warrior's Path (1980) 1,068 exemplars
Ride the River (1983) 1,018 exemplars
Flint (1960) 950 exemplars
The Sackett Brand (1965) 925 exemplars
Lonely on the Mountain (1980) 863 exemplars
Lando (1962) 847 exemplars
Mojave Crossing (1964) 817 exemplars
Ride the Dark Trail (1972) 815 exemplars
The Lonely Men (1969) 813 exemplars
Comstock Lode (1981) 808 exemplars
Mustang Man (1966) 803 exemplars
Treasure Mountain (1972) 796 exemplars
The Sky-Liners (1967) 779 exemplars
Bendigo Shafter (1979) 755 exemplars
Galloway (1970) 745 exemplars
The Quick and the Dead (1973) 731 exemplars
Down the Long Hills (1968) 709 exemplars
Sitka (1957) 703 exemplars
The Ferguson Rifle (1973) 703 exemplars
Silver Canyon (1951) 696 exemplars
The Cherokee Trail (1982) 690 exemplars
The Iron Marshall (1979) 686 exemplars
Reilly's Luck (1970) 685 exemplars
Conagher (1969) 681 exemplars
Son of a Wanted Man (1984) 672 exemplars
Fair Blows the Wind (1978) 665 exemplars
How the West was Won (1962) 662 exemplars
The Shadow Riders (1982) 656 exemplars
The Man Called Noon (1970) 654 exemplars
Passin' Through (1985) 652 exemplars
The Man from the Broken Hills (1975) 646 exemplars
Borden Chantry (1977) 639 exemplars
The Californios (1974) 628 exemplars
Guns of the Timberlands (1955) 621 exemplars
Bowdrie (1983) 604 exemplars
The Rider of Lost Creek (1976) 603 exemplars
Crossfire Trail (1954) 602 exemplars
Milo Talon (1981) 600 exemplars
The Mountain Valley War (1978) 597 exemplars
Kiowa Trail (1965) 597 exemplars
To Tame a Land (1955) 597 exemplars
Tucker (1971) 596 exemplars
The First Fast Draw (1959) 592 exemplars
Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957) 583 exemplars
High Lonesome (1962) 579 exemplars
Dark Canyon (1963) 579 exemplars
The Man from Skibbereen (1973) 579 exemplars
Heller with a Gun (1955) 578 exemplars
Fallon (1963) 575 exemplars
Utah Blaine (1954) 574 exemplars
The Tall Stranger (1957) 574 exemplars
The Proving Trail (1979) 572 exemplars
The Broken Gun (1966) 571 exemplars
Westward the Tide (1977) 568 exemplars
Chancy (1968) 567 exemplars
The Key-Lock Man (1965) 565 exemplars
The Empty Land (1969) 564 exemplars
Showdown at Yellow Butte (1953) 563 exemplars
The Burning Hills (1956) 562 exemplars
Under the Sweetwater Rim (1971) 560 exemplars
The Rustlers of West Fork (1979) 556 exemplars
Over on the Dry Side (1975) 555 exemplars
Hanging Woman Creek (1964) 553 exemplars
Kid Rodel (1966) 540 exemplars
End of the Drive (1997) 538 exemplars
Kilkenny (1954) 533 exemplars
Matagorda (1967) 532 exemplars
The Outlaws of Mesquite (1990) 531 exemplars
Brionne (1968) 529 exemplars
The High Graders (1965) 527 exemplars
North to the Rails (1971) 526 exemplars
Shalako (1962) 522 exemplars
Buckskin Run (1981) 522 exemplars
Catlow (1962) 519 exemplars
Callaghen (1972) 519 exemplars
Rivers West (1975) 517 exemplars
Bowdrie's Law (1972) 515 exemplars
Radigan (1958) 514 exemplars
The Trail to Seven Pines (1951) 508 exemplars
Where the Long Grass Blows (1976) 497 exemplars
Taggart (1959) 494 exemplars
War Party (1975) 491 exemplars
Kilrone (1966) 490 exemplars
Beyond the Great Snow Mountains (1999) 483 exemplars
Long Ride Home (1989) 474 exemplars
Killoe (1962) 474 exemplars
The Strong Shall Live (1980) 473 exemplars
Law of the Desert Born (1946) 465 exemplars
The Riders of High Rock (1951) 462 exemplars
Monument Rock (1998) 459 exemplars
West of Dodge (1996) 454 exemplars
Off the Mangrove Coast (2000) 454 exemplars
Dutchman's Flat (1986) 441 exemplars
May There Be a Road (2001) 428 exemplars
The Trail to Crazy Man (1986) 428 exemplars
Lonigan (1988) 422 exemplars
Riding for the Brand (1986) 422 exemplars
Yondering (1980) 421 exemplars
The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986) 416 exemplars
Valley of the Sun (1995) 414 exemplars
Trouble Shooter (1951) 412 exemplars
With These Hands (2002) 404 exemplars
The Hills of Homicide: Stories (1983) 370 exemplars
Night Over the Solomons (1986) 326 exemplars
West from Singapore (1987) 302 exemplars
From the Listening Hills (2003) 273 exemplars
Smoke from this Altar (1990) 209 exemplars
A Man Called Trent (1965) 132 exemplars
The Sixth Shotgun (1949) 132 exemplars
Frontier (1984) 130 exemplars
West of the Tularosa (1986) 115 exemplars
Grub Line Rider (1951) 100 exemplars
The Sacketts Volume 1 (1980) 99 exemplars
Showdown Trail (1986) 95 exemplars
The Sacketts Volume 3 (1980) 93 exemplars
The Sacketts Volume 4 (1972) 91 exemplars
The Shadow Riders [1982 TV movie] (1982) — Novel by — 86 exemplars
The Sacketts Volume 2 (1980) 78 exemplars
Big Medicine (1986) 75 exemplars
No Traveller Returns (2018) 64 exemplars
Man Riding West (1986) 55 exemplars
The Lawless West (2007) 52 exemplars
Trailing West (1800) 52 exemplars
Mistakes Can Kill You (1986) 49 exemplars
The Sky-Liners [and] Galloway (1970) 49 exemplars
Riders of the Dawn (1993) 45 exemplars
Desert Death-Song (1950) 44 exemplars
The Sacketts Volume 5 (1985) 42 exemplars
The Golden West (2003) 38 exemplars
The Sacketts (1979) 37 exemplars
Showdown on the Hogback (2005) 34 exemplars
Glory Riders (2011) 33 exemplars
Shalako/Catlow (2008) 32 exemplars
Utah Blaine & Silver Canyon (2008) 28 exemplars
Booty for a Bad Man (1991) 26 exemplars
Lone Star Law (2005) 26 exemplars
The Black Rock Coffin Makers (1950) 23 exemplars
A Gun for Kilkenny (1986) 23 exemplars
Lost Trails (2007) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Lit a Shuck for Texas (1986) 20 exemplars
Rowdy Rides to Glory (1987) 16 exemplars
McQueen of the Tumbling K (1986) 16 exemplars
The Turkeyfeather Riders (1986) 13 exemplars
Sackett's Gold 13 exemplars
Dead Ringer: A Western Trio (2019) 12 exemplars
Showdown (2009) 11 exemplars
One For The Pot (1975) 11 exemplars
Tales from the Old West (2005) 11 exemplars
The Kilkenny Series Bundle (2015) 10 exemplars
Keep Travelin', Rider (1986) 10 exemplars
Bannon (2017) 9 exemplars
Ride, You Tonto Raiders! (1949) 8 exemplars
The Diamond of Jeru (2000) 8 exemplars
Bowdrie Passes Through (1983) 8 exemplars
The Killer From the Pecos (1983) 8 exemplars
Unguarded Moment (1983) 8 exemplars
Bowdrie Follows a Cold Trail (1983) 8 exemplars
A Job for a Ranger (1983) 8 exemplars
Fork Your Own Broncs (1986) 7 exemplars
L'Amour: a collection (2010) 7 exemplars
A Trail to the West (1983) 7 exemplars
No Man's Man (2000) 7 exemplars
The One for the Mohave Kid (1986) 7 exemplars
Four-Card Draw (1986) 7 exemplars
Bill Carey Rides West (1990) 7 exemplars
Down Sonora Way (1984) 7 exemplars
The Nester and the Piute (1986) 6 exemplars
Survival (Louis L'Amour) (1999) 6 exemplars
No Trouble for the Cactus Kid (1947) 6 exemplars
His Brother's Debt (1986) 6 exemplars
The Courting of Griselda (1997) 6 exemplars
That Triggernometry Tenderfoot (1989) 6 exemplars
Lännen mies (1979) 5 exemplars
MCNELLY KNOWS A RANGER (1984) 5 exemplars
Horse Heaven (1950) 5 exemplars
Where Buzzards Fly (1984) 5 exemplars
The Lion Hunter and the Lady (1986) 5 exemplars
Dead Man's Trail (1983) 5 exemplars
THE KILKENNY SAGA 5 exemplars
Louis L'Amour (1994) 5 exemplars
Strange Pursuit (1984) 4 exemplars
Death Song of the Sombrero (1947) 4 exemplars
Trail to Pie Town (1886) 4 exemplars
L'envoi de l'aigle (1988) 4 exemplars
The Town No Guns Could Tame (1989) 4 exemplars
The Guns Talk Loud (1947) 4 exemplars
The Marshal of Sentinel (1995) 4 exemplars
One Last Gun Notch (1942) 3 exemplars
Stay Out of My Nightmare (1983) 3 exemplars
Dead-end Drift (1987) 3 exemplars
Sackett Family (1992) 3 exemplars
Guns of the Timberland [1960 film] (2014) — Novel — 3 exemplars
Lamour Sackett 4C Box Set (1999) 3 exemplars
The Sacketts Volumes 1 - 4 (1980) 3 exemplars
Tales from the Trail (2007) 3 exemplars
Két szekér arany (1988) 3 exemplars
Fighter's Fiasco (2002) 3 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Westerns 1 (CD) (2004) 3 exemplars
Louis L'Amour - many books (1970) 2 exemplars
Westerns (2008) 2 exemplars
In An Old Temple 2 exemplars
A Honra dos Sackett 2 exemplars
Louis lamour 2 exemplars
Le ranch de Clive Chantry (1976) 2 exemplars
One Night Stand 2 exemplars
il grande solitario 2 exemplars
West of the Pilot Range (1995) 2 exemplars
Shalako. (1969) 2 exemplars
Projekt Makatozi 2 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Collection (2006) 2 exemplars
Apache (1997) 2 exemplars
Jackson of Horntown (1947) 2 exemplars
Red Butte Showdown (2003) 2 exemplars
Trap of Gold (1951) 2 exemplars
Law of the Desert (2014) 2 exemplars
Rock Bannon (1980) 2 exemplars
Old Doc Yak (1992) 2 exemplars
Collect from a Corpse (1983) 2 exemplars
Down the Long Hills 2 exemplars
The Marshal of Painted Rock (1953) 2 exemplars
More Brains than Bullets (1983) 2 exemplars
Louis L'Amour's Trio of Tales (2008) 2 exemplars
A Gift of Cochise 2 exemplars
Squatters on the Lonetree (1952) 2 exemplars
Shandy Takes the Hook (1989) 2 exemplars
Teksasin miehet tulevat (1983) 2 exemplars
Valley of the Sun (Dramatized) (2009) 2 exemplars
Hillside Homicide 1 exemplars
Dead Ringer: A Western Trio (2023) 1 exemplars
North to the rails 1 exemplars
l'erede del bandito 1 exemplars
Riding On (1951) 1 exemplars
The high graders 1 exemplars
The Man Called Moon 1 exemplars
Begrav de döda 1 exemplars
Hunted Mesa 1 exemplars
The Far Mountains 1 exemplars
Bloed op die Water 1 exemplars
Man Alleen 1 exemplars
Showdown Trail: A Western Duo (2014) 1 exemplars
Guldfloden 1 exemplars
Manden uden fortid 1 exemplars
Hævnens vej 1 exemplars
Duel i ørkenen 1 exemplars
Drama i vildmarken 1 exemplars
Det blodige opgør 1 exemplars
Lost Trails 1 exemplars
Fair blows the wind 1 exemplars
n Graf vir twee 1 exemplars
Showdown at Yellow Butte (1972) 1 exemplars
Sackett # 4 1 exemplars
Sackett Et Son Mustang (1976) 1 exemplars
LES LOUPS HURLENT A LA LUNE (1973) 1 exemplars
Les implacables. (1971) 1 exemplars
LES DESPÉRADOS (1970) 1 exemplars
Le Train Du Kansas (1980) 1 exemplars
Le canon de la folle (1971) 1 exemplars
La Vallée verte (Western) (1983) 1 exemplars
La Route du Colorado (Western) (1983) 1 exemplars
La Longue Chasse (1981) 1 exemplars
La Cabane perdue (Western) (1983) 1 exemplars
Utah Blaine / Desert Showdown (1954) 1 exemplars
A Falsa Pista Os sacketts (1987) 1 exemplars
Valley of The Sun 1 exemplars
Monument Rock 1 exemplars
Bivacco sulla neve 1 exemplars
Mustang Man 1 exemplars
Hondo (2023) 1 exemplars
Down the long hills 1 exemplars
War Party (1973) 1 exemplars
The Walking Drum 1 exemplars
℗I ℗due nemici (1986) 1 exemplars
Lunga fuga 1 exemplars
The Cherokee Trail 1 exemplars
Der ruf des waldes 1 exemplars
Cowboy Stories 1 exemplars
Big Country, Volume 3 (2012) 1 exemplars
The Math Teacher 1 exemplars
A Trail Gone Cold 1 exemplars
Jacob Sackett 1 exemplars
Fighters Should Be Hungry (2000) 1 exemplars
West is Where the Heart Is (1986) 1 exemplars
Barney Takes a Hand (1986) 1 exemplars
Bad Place to Die (1989) 1 exemplars
The Catus Kid Pays a Debt (1989) 1 exemplars
To Make a Stand 1 exemplars
In This Is Beauty 1 exemplars
Ship Across The Sky 1 exemplars
McVey 1 exemplars
Kuiskaavan tuulen laakso (1983) 1 exemplars
Collectors Series 1 exemplars
I Came To Create 1 exemplars
Lines To a Season 1 exemplars
My Three Friends 1 exemplars
I Shall Go Back 1 exemplars
In Protest 1 exemplars
Question 1 exemplars
Old Jerry 1 exemplars
Picture 1 exemplars
Collection Trail to Pie Town (2008) 1 exemplars
The Fighting Four 1 exemplars
The Gladiator 1 exemplars
Decadence 1 exemplars
Life 1 exemplars
Biography in Stone 1 exemplars
Nocturne 1 exemplars
A Handful of Stars 1 exemplars
Winter 1 exemplars
Secret Pass 1 exemplars
Banked Fires 1 exemplars
North Cape 1 exemplars
To You, Jeannine 1 exemplars
Time of Terror (2000) 1 exemplars
The Rounds Don't Matter (2000) 1 exemplars
The Unexpected Corpse (2000) 1 exemplars
The Cross and the Candle (2000) 1 exemplars
Love Out of Season 1 exemplars
After Tomorrow 1 exemplars
Yacodhapura 1 exemplars
Steppe 1 exemplars
To Giordano Bruno 1 exemplars
The Weary One 1 exemplars
Hildebrand 1 exemplars
Call of the Tropics 1 exemplars
The Pioneer 1 exemplars
Without This Land 1 exemplars
Author's Tea 1 exemplars
The Admiral 1 exemplars
Thicker than Blood 1 exemplars
No Rest for the Wicked (1990) 1 exemplars
Glorious! 1 exemplars
The Dancing Kate 1 exemplars
Wings over Khabarovsk (1986) 1 exemplars
Duffy's Man 1 exemplars
The Goose Flies South (1986) 1 exemplars
Tailwind to Tibet (1986) 1 exemplars
Pirates with Wings (1986) 1 exemplars
Mission to Siberut (1986) 1 exemplars
South of Suez 1 exemplars
East of Gorontalo 1 exemplars
That Packsaddle Affair (1990) 1 exemplars
Hattan's Castle 1 exemplars
Big Man 1 exemplars
Let Me Forget 1 exemplars
Tranquillity 1 exemplars
Twilight 1 exemplars
Forest People 1 exemplars
Winter Winds 1 exemplars
Let It Snow 1 exemplars
Then Comes Spring 1 exemplars
Rain 1 exemplars
Mutation 1 exemplars
Rose of Memory 1 exemplars
Bluff Creek Station 1 exemplars
The Running Hills 1 exemplars
The Ghosts of Buckskin Run (1948) 1 exemplars
What Gold Does to a Man (1961) 1 exemplars
Alkali Basin 1 exemplars
The Ghost Maker (1990) 1 exemplars
I Hate to Tell His Widow (1983) 1 exemplars
The Drift (1990) 1 exemplars
The Street of Lost Corpses (1983) 1 exemplars
With Death in his Corner (1983) 1 exemplars
Stories of the Western Range (2012) 1 exemplars
Calloway 1 exemplars
Home is the Hunter 1 exemplars
To Hang Me High 1 exemplars
Fünf Partner (1965) 1 exemplars
A Man Named Utah 1 exemplars
Ein Mann wie Kid Rodelo (1966) 1 exemplars
Das war der wilde Westen (1969) 1 exemplars
Ironwood Station 1 exemplars
Here Ends the Trail 1 exemplars
Last Day in Town 1 exemplars
West of Dry Creek 1 exemplars
Four by L'Amour (Dramatized) (1997) 1 exemplars
Vol. 1 - Westerns (1997) 1 exemplars
all works 1 exemplars
Yksinäiset jumalat (1985) 1 exemplars
Paperback 1 exemplars
Fuego en las Mantanas (1981) 1 exemplars
Trail to Pie Town 1 exemplars
La lunga fuga (1990) 1 exemplars
Die schnelle Hand (1959) 1 exemplars
A Husband for Janey 1 exemplars
Showdown on the Tumbling T (1990) 1 exemplars
Caprock Rancher (1997) 1 exemplars
Elisha Comes to Red Horse (1997) 1 exemplars
Noi Sackett 1 exemplars
Punainen hevonen (1983) 1 exemplars
Tie Coloradoon (1983) 1 exemplars
The Last Frontier 1 exemplars
When a Texan Takes Over (1995) 1 exemplars
No Man's Mesa (1995) 1 exemplars
Gila Crossing (1995) 1 exemplars
Wilderness Trek (1965) 1 exemplars
Collection of Louis L'Amour (1980) 1 exemplars
Sackettien perintö 1 exemplars
The Sackett Stories 1 exemplars
That Slash Seven Kid (1995) 1 exemplars
In Victorio's Country (1995) 1 exemplars
I'm a Stranger Here 1 exemplars
THOH (1983) 1 exemplars
Piritetty karjatila 1 exemplars
Desperate Men (1997) 1 exemplars
Roundup in Texas 1 exemplars
Rustler Roundup (1997) 1 exemplars
Fortune de feu (1986) — Autor — 1 exemplars
The Skull and the Arrow (1997) 1 exemplars
Friend of a Hero 1 exemplars
The Cactus Kid 1 exemplars
The Ghost Fighter 1 exemplars
Wings over Brazil 1 exemplars
The Vanished Blonde 1 exemplars
Meeting at Falmouth 1 exemplars
Samotář (1995) 1 exemplars
Psanec (2009) 1 exemplars
Poklad 1 exemplars
Osamělý jezdec (2005) 1 exemplars
Na mušce (2011) 1 exemplars
Sideshow Champion 1 exemplars
Crash Landing 1 exemplars
Coast Patrol 1 exemplars
The Gravel Pit 1 exemplars
The Money Punch 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Big Book of Adventure Stories (2011) — Col·laborador — 113 exemplars
A Century of Great Western Stories-An Anthology of Western Fiction (2000) — Col·laborador — 104 exemplars
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (1982) — Col·laborador — 101 exemplars
The Quick and the Dead [1987 TV movie] (2003) — Original book — 96 exemplars
The Sacketts [1979 film] (2006) — Original book — 37 exemplars
Great Tales of the West (1982) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
Ghost Towns (2010) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Shalako [1968 film] (1968) — Original book — 17 exemplars
The Best of the American West II (1999) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
The Western Hall of Fame Anthology (1997) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Catlow [1971 film] — Original book — 1 exemplars

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Altres noms
LaMoore, Louis Dearborn (birth name)
Burns, Tex
Mayo, Jim
Data de naixement
1908-03-22
Data de defunció
1988-06-10
Lloc d'enterrament
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California, USA
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Jamestown, North Dakota, USA
Lloc de defunció
Los Angeles, California, USA
Causa de la mort
cancer (lung)
Llocs de residència
Los Angeles, California, USA
Educació
self-educated
Professions
novelist
gold miner
merchant seaman
professional boxer
Relacions
L'Amour, Angelique (daughter)
L'Amour, Beau (son)
Organitzacions
WPA Writers Project
Premis i honors
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1984)
Congressional Gold Medal (1982)
Theodore Roosevelt Roughrider Award (1972)
Saddleman Award (1981)
National Book Award (1979)
Biografia breu
Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films.

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1908. He left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs. In 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress in honor of his life's work. In 1984 he was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.

Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988.

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Louis L'Amour 2022 Shared Read Challenge a 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (gener 2023)
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Ressenyes

An ex-con, a few escaped prisoners, and a mysterious woman head into the desert with gold in their saddlebags, a posse of Yaquis on their trail. Will they survive the harsh desert, or will the lust for riches decimate their ranks before their pursuers can? Good straightforward adventure story.
 
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fuzzi | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Mar 14, 2024 |
Jean Talon is a shipwright in 1821 America. Originally from Nova Scotia and Quebec, he plans to move to Pittsburgh to take up his career. He learns about a plan by Baron Torville, a megalomaniac, to stage a rebellion in the new territory created by the Louisiana Purchase and build an empire. Talon joins with a ragtag group of misfits to disrupt the plans of the Baron.

His travels are by horse, canoe and keel boat with lengthy explanations on how such a vessel moves up stream against the natural flow of the river. As usual, L'Amour works a lot of history into the narrative including European history to explain where some of the characters came from and why.… (més)
 
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lamour | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Feb 25, 2024 |
Mojave Crossing by Louis L’Amour is part of the on-going Sackett Family series. In this outing we once again join Tell Sackett as he packs his hard earned gold to California. He plans to see the gold for a better price than he can get in Arizona. On his return he hopes to buy land and start a cattle ranch. His romance with Ange has been put on hold as she went back east to visit relatives and he hasn’t heard from her.

He meets a lady and agrees to help her in crossing the Mojave Desert and reaching Los Angeles, this good deed opens a can of worms as before he knows it they are being tailed through the desert and shot at. This gang eventually catches them, take the woman and the gold and leave Tell for dead. Of course, Tell vows to find them and retrieve his gold. As he battles a number of bad guys for his gold, he meets up with a cousin, Nolan Sackett, and although he has been working on the wrong side of the law, when push comes to shove, blood is thicker than water.

A quick, action packed read that I thought was a good addition to the series.
… (més)
½
 
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DeltaQueen50 | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Feb 24, 2024 |

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Obres
804
També de
11
Membres
82,730
Popularitat
#145
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
1,030
ISBN
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Llengües
21
Preferit
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