A veteran trail driver, who has survived thundering stampedes and Comanche raids, discovers there's nothing so dangerous as courting a beautiful wo...
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Mar 08, 2009
Ryan
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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...
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...
Jun 17, 2009
Cora
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This is a good look at L'Amour's development of material. He was a storyteller and did not revise texts the way many author's do, but there are several short stories in this collection that later served as the foundation for novels. The novels were published during the author's life time, but the short stories were left in a box of materials that were published by L'Amour's children after his death. The changes were both subtle and severe in the shift from short story to novel. The author did
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Aug 01, 2011
Wonderful book of short stories and one novella by L'Amour.
The novella, "Rustler Roundup", is a page turner....Kept me up until 2 a.m. today...
The novella, "Rustler Roundup", is a page turner....Kept me up until 2 a.m. today...
Dec 23, 2008
Charles
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Another collection of L'Amour's western stories. Several of these were the genesis for what later became novels so they're well worth reading.
Jan 13, 2012
Marvin
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Did not realize this was a collection of short stories, thought it was another Sackett disappointing it was just the one short story "The courting of Griselda". My favorite of the stories was "Rustler roundup".
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