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Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour [1908-88]          short profile
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Louis Dearborn L'Amour was born 22 March 1908 in Jamestown, North Dakota. He wrote & published ninety novels,
twenty-seven short-story collections, two works of nonfiction, a memoir, and a volume of poetry before his death
on 10 June 1988 at the age of 80. He is the only author in history to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
and the Congressional Gold Medal in honor of his life's work.



official Louis L'Amour website
Louis L'Amour entry at Wikipedia

explore Louis L'Amour videos & DVDs
Louis L'Amour credits at Internet Movie Database

L'Amour books catalog at Amazon.com
Louis L'Amour audio catalog at Amazon.com

checklist of all Louis L'Amour books
official L'Amour 'Lost Treasures' website
TDH's fansite [last update 4/99]

Louis L'Amour Companion  
"The Louis L'Amour Companion: The Indispensable Guide To The Life & Work of America's Favorite Storyteller" [1992]
by Robert Weinberg

Bantam mass pb [5/94] for $6.99
Andrews McMeel Publng 9¼x6 pb [6/92] out of print/used



Short  Stories

L'Amour Collected Stories Vol. 1   "The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour:
Frontier Stories - Volume One" [35 stories 2003]

Bantam 9½x6 hardcover [11/2003] for $16.32
Random House audio CD [11/2003] for $14.93
Random House audio [11/2003] for $14.04
L'Amour Collected Stories Vol. 2   "The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour:
Frontier Stories - Volume Two" [30 stories 2004]

Bantam 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/2004] for $14.96
Random House UNABR audio CD [10/2004] for $17.12
Random House UNABR audio [10/2004] for $14.04
L'Amour Collected Stories Vol. 3   "The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour:
Frontier Stories - Volume Three" [28 stories 2005]

Bantam 9x6 hardcover [10/2005] for $14.96
Random House UNABR audio CD [10/2005] for $17.12
Random House UNABR audio [10/2005] for $14.04
L'Amour Collected Stories Vol. 4   "The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour:
Adventure Stories - Volume Four" [43 stories 2006]

includes 9 Ponga Jim Mayo sea stories & 10 Turk Madden stories
Bantam 9x6 hardcover [10/2006] for $16.32
Random House ABR audio CD [10/2006] for $17.12
official Louis L'Amour Adventure Stories website
L'Amour Collected Stories Vol. 5   "The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour:  
Frontier Stories - Volume Five" [27 stories 2007]

includes 4 tales of the Cactus Kid
Bantam hardcover [10/2007] for $16.32
Random House ABR audio CD [10/2007] for $14.93

"Beyond The Great Snow Mountains" [stories 1999]

"Bowdrie" [stories]

"Bowdrie's Law" [stories 1984]

"Buckskin Run" [stories]

"Dutchman's Flat" [stories 1986]

"End Of The Drive" [stories 1997]

"From The Listening Hills" [stories]

"Hills of Homicide" [detective stories]

"Law of The Desert Born" [stories]

"The Long Ride Home" [stories]

"Lonigan" [stories]

May There Be A Road   "May There Be A Road" [all-new stories 2001]
Bantam pb [4/2002] for $4.99
Bantam 7¾x5½ hardcover [5/2001] for $13.56
Bantam ABR audio cassette [5/2001] for $14.40
Bantam ABR audio CD [5/2001] for $15.37

"Monument Rock" [stories 1998]

"Night Over The Solomons" [stories]

Off The Mangrove Coast   "Off The Mangrove Coast" [new stories 2000]
Bantam 7x4 pb [5/2001] for $4.49
B.D.D. hardcover [5/2000] out of print/used
Bantam UNABR audio [5/2000] for $18.17

"The Outlaws of Mesquite" [stories 1990]

"Rider of The Ruby Hills" [stories]

"Riding For The Brand" [stories]

"The Strong Shall Live" [stories]

"The Trail To Crazy Man" [stories]

"Valley of The Sun" [stories 1995]

"War Party" [stories 1975]

"West From Singapore" [stories 1987]

"West of Dodge" [stories 1996]

With These Hands   "With These Hands" [11 stories 2002]
Bantam mass pb [4/2003] for $5.50
Bantam ¾x5½ hardcover [4/2002] for $5.50
Random House UNABR audio [4/2002] for $18.00

"Yondering" [stories 1980]



Western  Novels

"A Man Called Trent"

"Bendigo Shafter" [1979]

"Borden Chantry" [1977]

"Brionne"

"Broken Gun"

"Burning Hills" [1956]

"The Californios"

"Callaghen"

"Catlow"

"Chancy"

"The Cherokee Trail" [1982]

"Comstock Lode" [1981]

"Conagher" [1969]

Crossfire Trail book  "Crossfire Trail" [1954]
Bantam pb [1/85] for $4.50
EconoClad hardcover [10/99] for $9.72
Crossfire Trail movie   "Crossfire Trail" [T.N.T. tv movie Jan 2001]
Directed by Simon Wincer; starring Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, Wilford Brimley & Mark Harmon; won Western Heritage Bronze Wrangler (2002)
Turner color VHS [3/2002] for $13.74
Turner VHS w/Spanish subtitles [3/2002] for $14.94
Warner widescreen DVD [7/2001] for $17.98
full credits from IMDb
TNT official movie website

"Dark Canyon"

"Down The Long Hills" [1968]

"The Empty Land"

"Fair Blows The Wind"

"Fallon" [1963]

"The Ferguson Rifle"

"The First Fast Draw" [1959]

"Flint" [1960]

"Frontier"

"Guns of The Timberlands"

"Hanging Woman Creek"

"Heller With A Gun"

"The High Graders" [1965]

"High Lonesome" [1962]

Hondo book   "Hondo" aka 'The Gift of Cochise' [L'Amour's first novel; 1952]
Bantam pb [6/91] for $4.50
Hondo video   "Hondo" [Warner Nov 1953]
Directed by John Farrow; based on the Louis L'Amour novel; starring John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond & James Arness; Oscar noms for Best Script & Best Supporting Actress (GP)
Paramount color DVD [10/2005] for $10.99
MPI Home Video color VHS [9/94] out of prodn/many used
full credits from IMDb
"Hondo" posters at AllPosters [dot] com

How The West Was Won book   "How The West Was Won" [1963]
novelization by Louis L'Amour, based on the Oscar-winning screenplay by James B. Webb
Bantam pb [6/81] out of print/used
How The West Was Won movie   "How The West Was Won" [M.G.M./Cinerama Feb 1963]
Co-directed by John Ford [1894-1973], Henry Hathaway, George Marshall & Richard Thorpe; script by James B. Webb; starring Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Harry Dean Stanton & Lee Van Cleef; won Oscars for Best Script, Best Editing, Best Sound; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Music, Best Costumes; listed at National Film Registry 1997
Warner color VHS [5/2000] for $14.95
Warner widescreen VHS [5/2000] for $14.95
Warner letterbox color DVD [7/98] for $15.99
Rhino soundtrack double CD [1/97] for $30.38
full credits from IMDb
11"x17" poster available at AllPosters [dot] com

"The Iron Marshall"

"The Key-Lock Man"

"Kid Rodelo"

"Kilkenny"

"Killoe" [1962]

"Kilrone"

"Kiowa Trail" [1964]

"Last Stand At Papago Wells"

"The Lonesome Gods" [1983]

"Man Called Noon" [1970]

"Man From Skibbereen"

"Matagorda"

"Milo Talon"

"The Mountain Valley War"

"North To The Rails"

"Over On The Dry Side"

"Passin' Through"

"The Proving Trail" [1978]

"The Quick & The Dead"

"Radigan" [1958]

"Reilly's Luck" [1970]

"Rider of Lost Creek" [1976]

"Rivers West"

"The Shadow Riders"

"Shalako"

"Showdown At Yellow Butte" [1953]
original publication credited to pen name Jim Mayo

"Silver Canyon"

"Sitka"

"Son of A Wanted Man" [1984]

"South of Deadwood"

"Taggart"

"The Tall Stranger"

"To Tame A Land" [1965]

"Tucker" [1971]

"Under The Sweetwater Rim" [1971]

"Utah Blaine" [1954]
original publication credited to pen name Jim Mayo

"Westward The Tide"

"Where The Long Grass Blows" [1976]

Hopalong Cassidy  Novels
by  Louis L'Amour

Several of the earliest writings of Louis L'Amour were four 'for hire' Hopalong Cassidy stories and novels,
published under the pseudonym 'Tex Burns'. The novels were not published under his own name until 1991.

Louis L'Amour Hopalong Cassidy Novel Collection
Bantam pb box set [10/2002] already sold out: see used

Trouble Shooter   "Trouble Shooter" [1952 & 1994]
by Tex Burns {Louis L'Amour}

Bantam pb [4/95] for $4.99
BDD hardcover [5/94] out of print/used
Amereon hardcover [10/80] for $24.94
Riders of High Rock   "The Riders of High Rock" [1951 & 1993]
by Tex Burns {Louis L'Amour}

Bantam pb [5/94] for $4.99
BDD 9¼x6.4 hardcover [6/93] out of print/used
Amereon Hardcover [6/74] out of print/used
Trail To Seven Pines   "The Trail To Seven Pines" [1951 & 1992]
by Tex Burns {Louis L'Amour}

Bantam pb [6/93] for $4.99
EconoClad hardcover [10/99] for $12.70
BDD 9x6¼ hardcover [6/92] out of print/used
Amereon Hardcover [6/76] out of print/used
Rustlers of West Fork   "The Rustlers of West Fork" [1951 & 1991]
by Tex Burns {Louis L'Amour}

Bantam pb [5/92] for $4.99
BDD 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/91] out of print/used
Amereon Hardcover [6/76] out of print/used

Hopalong Cassidy Page at 'Readers of The Purple Sage'


Other  Books

"A Trail of Memories" [quotations] compiled by Angelique L'Amour

"Education of A Wandering Man" [memoir 1989]

"Frontier"

"Haunted Mesa" [1987]

"Last of The Breed" [modern novel 1986]

"Smoke From This Alter" [early poetry]

"Walking Drum" [12th Century]

Trailing Louis L'Amour   "Trailing Louis L'Amour: From California To Alaska" [2002]
by Bert Murphy

BookSurge Publng 8½x11 pb [12/2002] for $25.99
"Trailing Louis L'Amour: In New Mexico" [1995]
by Bert Murphy

Gem Guides 2nd edition 8½x11 pb [12/99] out of print/used
MBAR-Appleyard pb [8/95] out of print/used



The Sackett Family Novels

The Sackett Family Novels by Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour Sackett catalog at Amazon.com

"Sackett's Land" [1975] {circa 1600}

"To The Far Blue Mountains" [1977] {circa 1600-1620}

"The Warrior's Path" [1980] {circa 1620s}

"Jubal Sackett" [1985] {circa 1620s}

"Ride The River" [1983] {circa 1840s-1850s}

"The Daybreakers" [1960] {circa 1870-72}

"Lando" [1962] {circa 1873-75}

"Sackett" [1961] {circa 1874-75}

"Mojave Crossing" [1964] {circa 1875-79}

"The Sackett Brand" [1965] {circa 1875-79}

"The Sky-Liners" [1967] {circa 1875-79}

"The Lonely Men" [1969] {circa 1875-79}

"Mustang Man" [1966] {circa 1875-79}

"Galloway" [1970] {circa 1875-79}

"Treasure Mountain" [1972] {circa 1875-79}

"Ride The Dark Trail" [1972] {circa 1875-79}

"Lonely On The Mountain" [1980] {circa 1875-79}

"The Sackett Companion" [1988]

official Sackett webpage
Sackett Saga entry at Wikipedia



Audio  Collections

Louis L'Amour Collection audio set  "Louis L'Amour Collection" [8 stories 2007] read by Willie Nelson
includes stories "Big Medicine", "The Black Rock Coffin Makers", "Dutchman's Flat", "Four Card Draw", "Mistakes Can Kill You", "The Nester and The Piute", "Riding For The Brand" (with roles by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings & Kris Kristofferson) & "Trail To Pie Town"
HighBridge audio CD [4/2007] 4 disks for $19.77

Louis L'Amour: Trail Mix audio sets   "Louis L'Amour: Trail Mix"
Volume One [3 stories 2005] read by Willie Nelson
HighBridge audio CD [12/2005] 2 disks for $10.39
"Riding For The Brand" features Willie Nelson, in a fully dramatized performance with Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings; the two other stories are "The Black Rock Coffin Makers" and "Dutchman's Flat"
Volume Two [4 stories 2006] read by Willie Nelson
HighBridge audio CD [11/2006] 2 disks for $11.04
includes stories "Big Medicine", "Mistakes Can Kill You", "The Nester and The Piute" & "Trail To Pie Town"

Collected Bowdrie Dramatizations audio sets 2  
Collected Bowdrie Dramatizations audio sets 3  
"The Collected Bowdrie Dramatizations"
Vol. 1 Random House UNABR audio CD [10/2005] 6 disks for $19.77
includes 6 stories: "A Job For A Ranger", "A Trail To The West", "Bowdrie Follows A Cold Trail", "Bowdrie Rides A Coyote Trail", "McNelly Knows A Ranger" & "Outlaws Of Poplar Creek"
Vol. 2 Random House UNABR audio CD [11/2006] 6 disks for $19.77
includes 6 stories: "Bowdrie Passes Through", "More Brains Than Bullets", "The Road To Casa Piedras", "South of Deadwood", "Too Tough To Brand" & "Where Buzzards Fly"
Vol. 3 Random House UNABR audio CD [10/2007] 6 disks for $19.77
includes 6 stories: "A Ranger Rides To Town", "Case Closed - No Prisoners", "Down Sonora Way", "The Killer From The Pecos", "Rain On The Mountain Fork" & "Strange Pursuit"

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