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3.6 of 5 stars
Where the real frontier begins...

A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt.... A gunfighter, tire... read full description

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Mar 08, 2009
Ryan rated it: 1 of 5 stars
My dad loves all his books and I read over a hundred while staving off the night terrors when growing up.

It is a strange fact about the old west, Indians, and the genocidal take over of the land now called the United States that fiction writing about them is often taken for truth (see Ward Churchill's Fantasies of the Master Race). The back of almost every L'amour novel lauds his knowledge of "how it really was" and the fact that he could've been one of the tough, honorable More...
Dec 31, 2008
Eric rated it: 3 of 5 stars
The Lonesome Gods was the first Louis L'Amour book I read. I was still in grade school at the time, maybe sixth or seventh grade, and my grandmother loaned it to me. The book opened an exciting new world, the world of gunfighters and cowboys, cattle drives and boom towns, dazzling senoritas and cattle barons.

The world of Louis L'Amour.

Since then, I've read just about every book he wrote. My favorite books were about the Sacketts, such as The Daybreakers and Lonely on the More...
Jun 10, 2009
Charles rated it: 3 of 5 stars
This is a collection of short stories published well after L'Amour's death. Most are fairly slight but they are good stories and have good hearts to them. I enjoyed this quite a lot.
Nov 28, 2011
Laura rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Another plane ride, another Louis L'Amour book.
Jul 27, 2011
Cecelia added it
Absolutly wonderful.
Jul 28, 2008
Anne rated it: 3 of 5 stars
I'm not much of a western fan, but these stories were enjoyable, and all quite different.
Nov 12, 2008
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Feb 08, 2012
Jon rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Feb 07, 2012
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Feb 04, 2012
Matt rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Feb 03, 2012
D.M. rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Jan 31, 2012
Lillia marked it as to-read
Jan 30, 2012
Peter rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Jan 27, 2012
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Jan 23, 2012
Manuel rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Jan 19, 2012
Mike rated it: 4 of 5 stars
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Biki1121 rated it: 5 of 5 stars
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Liscalisca rated it: 2 of 5 stars
Jan 06, 2012
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Dec 13, 2011
Gary rated it: 4 of 5 stars
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