Friday, June 5, 2009

Louis L'Amour - Historical Novels, etc.




from Wikipedia and other sources

Louis L'Amour [1908-1988]
(I have not read all of these; should I determine any are not family friendly I will note the circumstance by the title as I read them.)

Novels - (including series novels)




There are also two Sackett-related short stories:
  • "The Courting of Griselda" (available in End of the Drive)
  • "Booty for a Badman" (available in War Party)
Sacketts are also involved in the plot of 7 other novels:
  • Bendigo Shafter (Ethan Sackett)
  • Dark Canyon (William Tell Sackett)
  • Borden Chantry (Joe Sackett, killed in ambush that B Chantry solves murder, and Tyrel Sackett)
  • Passin' Through (Parmalee Sackett is mentioned as defending a main character in the book)
  • Son of a Wanted Man (Tyrel Sackett)
  • Catlow (Ben Cowhan marries a cousin of Tyrel Sackett’s wife)
  • Man from the Broken Hills (Em Talon a main character in this book was in fact born a Sackett. Mentions William Tell Sackett)

Talon and Chantry series

  • Borden Chantry
  • Fair Blows the Wind
  • The Ferguson Rifle
  • The Man from the Broken Hills (Em Talon was born a Sackett she is the main character's mother.)
  • Milo Talon (Is a cousin to the Sacketts through his mother Em Talon)
  • North to the Rails
  • Over on the Dry Side
  • Rivers West



Kilkenny series

  • The Rider of Lost Creek (1976)
  • The Mountain Valley War (1978), which previously been released as a magazine novella, entitled A Man Called Trent and was re-written for the Kilkenny trilogy. A Man Called Trent is included in the short story collection entitled The Rider of the Ruby Hills(1986)
  • Kilkenny (1954)
  • A Gun for Kilkenny is a short story featuring Kilkenny as a minor character, from the collection Dutchman's Flat (1986).
  • Monument Rock is a novella in the story collection of the same name.

Hopalong Cassidy series

Originally published under the pseudonym "Tex Burns".
  • The Riders of High Rock
  • The Rustlers of West Fork
  • The Trail to Seven Pines
  • Trouble Shooter



Collections of short stories

  • War Party (1975)
  • The Strong Shall Live (1980)
  • Yondering (1980; revised edition 1989)
  • Buckskin Run (1981)
  • Bowdrie (1983)
  • The Hills of Homicide (1983)
  • Law of the Desert Born (1983)
  • Bowdrie's Law (1984)
  • Night Over the Solomons (1986)
  • The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986)
  • Riding for the Brand (1986)
  • The Trail to Crazy Man (1986)
  • Dutchman's Flat (1986)
  • Lonigan (1988)
  • Long Ride Home (1989)
  • The Outlaws of Mesquite (1990)
  • West from Singapore (1991)
  • Valley of the Sun (1995)
  • West of Dodge (1996)
  • End of the Drive (1997)
  • Monument Rock (1998)
  • Beyond the Great Snow Mountains (1999)
  • Off the Mangrove Coast (2000)
  • May There Be a Road (2001)
  • With These Hands (2002)
  • From the Listening Hills (2003)
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 1
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 2
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 3
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Adventure Stories - Volume 4
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 5
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Crime Stories - Volume 6
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 7
  • "Trap of Gold"
  • "The Gift of Cochise"

Non-fiction

  • Education Of A Wandering Man
  • Frontier
  • The Sackett Companion
  • A Trail Of Memories: The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour (compiled by Angelique L'Amour)

Poetry

  • Smoke From This Altar



Compilations with other authors

  • The Golden West
  • Stagecoach