When L'Amour wrote about a cave near a trail, it was there. Discover these caves and other natural landmarks that tell you about the land, people and trails which L'Amour brought so vividly to life. Step back into time to visit the lonesome places portrayed in his novels about the New Mexico Territory and from California to Alaska.
"When Louis L'Amour wrote about a cave near a trail . . it was there. Here are the comprehensive books which help you find those caves and tell you about the land, the people and the trails which Louis L'Amour brought so vividly to life. With chapter titles like: "Where are the Lonesome Gods 1835 - 1864," "A Long Trail To Sitka 1817 - 1867," "Callaghen Of The Wild Geese 1867," and "Sackett Makes A Mojave Crossing 1878" author Bert Murphy takes you by the hand and guides you safely through the roughest country, across both time and space to the world as described by Louis L'Amour. Filled with detailed maps and directions, laced with autobiographical anecdotes, personal experiences and historical facts, Bert Murphy weaves a compelling picture of the time and place in which Louis' characters lived and died. Then he brings you back to the present with photographs and geological survey maps detailing the trails and travels of Louis L'Amour's most beloved characters. Step back in time and visit the lonesome places portrayed in Louis L'Amour's novels from California to Alaska."--Amazon.com
He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America—and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime, and Buckdun, a notorious assassin, is there to back his play. Flint alone can help Nancy save her ranch…with his cash, his connections—and his gun. He still has his legendary will to fight. All he needs is time, and that’s fast running out….
As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! It seemed the perfect place to lie low. The owner of the ranch was an attractive gray-haired lady who had once been an actress. The other woman was a beautiful, fragile-seeming blonde. They needed repairs done, and he needed to disappear for a while. The first sign that things were not as they should be was when a Pinkerton man questioned him about a missing woman. Then he accidentally found a will belonging to the previous owner of the ranch. After that, a young lady showed up in town making claims that the place belonged to her. Worried that his hideout was turning into a battleground, he didn’t know what would be more dangerous, staying or leaving. For a man interested only in passin’ through, he suddenly found himself entangled in a deadly struggle. . . . Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volume 1 and Volume 2, Beau L’Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L’Amour’s never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.
“I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid.” This was the boy’s mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather. Johannes Verne was soon to be rescued by outlaws, but no one could save him from the lasting memory of his grandfather’s eyes, full of impenetrable hatred. Raised in part by Indians, then befriended by a mysterious woman, Johannes grew up to become a rugged adventurer and an educated man. But even now, strengthened by the love of a golden-haired girl and well on his way to making a fortune in bustling early-day Los Angeles, the past may rise up to threaten his future once more. And this time only the ancient gods of the desert can save him.
His dream was to build magnificent steamboats to ply the rivers of the American frontier. But when Jean Talon began his journey westward, he stumbled upon a deadly conspiracy involving a young woman’s search to find her missing brother, and a ruthless band of renegades. Led by the brazen Baron Torville, this makeshift army of opportunists is plotting a violent takeover of the Louisiana Territory. Jean swears to find a way to stop this daring plan. If he doesn’t, it will not only put an end to all his dreams; it will change the course of history—and destroy the promise of the American frontier.
Melzer offers an impressive new book about famous New Mexico gravesites, usually the only monuments left to honor the human treasures who helped shape state, national, and often international history.
LIFE, NOT DEATH, DROVE JUBAL YOUNG . . . but memories of his ma and pa, and his beautiful, bright sister are all he has left. Memories of the peaceful days before Jubal stumbled home with his .22, his blood running cold with fear, terror, and anger. When it was over, the homestead was half burned to the ground. Someone had to bury the bodies. Someone had to set things right. Now, as Jubal rides west into New Mexico, he remembers his family’s laughter and love, his pa’s wisdom, ma’s thick books, and everything that was defiled by a band of drunken renegades towed along by one man’s murderous grudge. A reprobate lawman won’t believe his story. A soft-hearted mountain man won’t survive Jubal’s one-man war. And a judge and his beautiful daughter cannot stop Jubal from climbing a peak of blood and madness: for justice, or payback, or something he can live for—or die for—redeeming. An American film icon delivers a great American novel with Payback at Morning Peak. Gene Hackman, whose fiction is “rousing” (Publishers Weekly) and “robust” (Winston-Salem Journal), takes readers on a powerful and historically dead-on western odyssey in the tradition of Louis L’Amour.
Louis L'Amour was one of America's most prolific and bestselling authors, writing more than 100 novels over his thirty year career and selling hundreds of millions of copies of those novels. He not only wrote many novels about the American frontier, but also wrote numerous short stories and poems and was the subject of hundreds of articles, interviews, essays, documentaries, and newspaper columns. This is a comprehensive guide to works written by and about Louis L'Amour. The first part documents all of his book-length works providing extensive information on editions, reprints and translations, an annotation detailing the plot, and a list of selected reviews for each. The second part covers all known and verified short stories identifying the date of the first publication and including information on reprints and title changes and an annotation for each. Following these are sections detailing L'Amour's nonfiction and poetry, audio productions, motion pictures and television programs based on his books and stories, and books and articles about him. A series index, a character index, and a comprehensive index are also provided.