Country Justice, THE WARRIOR’S PATH
Deerslayer, The, THE DAYBREAKERS
Essays, THE WARRIOR’S PATH
Ivanhoe, THE SKY-LINERS
Katha Sarit Sagara, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS
Lochinvar, RIDE THE RIVER
Marmion, RIDE THE RIVER
Method of Physics, THE WARRIOR’S PATH
Muquaddimah, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS
Pilgrim’s Progress, GALLOWAY
Bible, THE DAYBREAKERS
Bible, SACKETT
Bible, MOJAVE CROSSING
Bible, GALLOWAY
Bible, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL
SHIPS IN THE SACKETT NOVELS
Abigail. TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS
Abigail. THE WARRIOR’S PATH
Eagle. TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS
Eagle. THE WARRIOR’S PATH
Hayda. TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS
Jolly Jack. SACKETT’S LAND
Jolly Jack. TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS
Lion. TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS
Mayflower. THE WARRIOR’S PATH
Mayflower. JUBAL SACKETT
Philadelphia. SACKETT
Scamp, the. TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS
Sprite. TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS
Tiger. SACKETT’S LAND
Vestal. THE WARRIOR’S PATH
SONGS IN THE SACKETT NOVELS
“Barbry Allen,” RIDE THE RIVER
“Barbry Allen,” THE DAYBREAKERS
“Barbry Allen,” SACKETT
“Barbry Allen,” TREASURE MOUNTAIN
“Black, Black, Black,” THE DAYBREAKERS
“Black, Black, Black,” SACKETT
“Black, Black, Black,” TREASURE MOUNTAIN
“Black Jack Davy,” RIDE THE RIVER
“Brennan on the Moor,” SACKETT
“Brennan on the Moor,” TREASURE MOUNTAIN
“Brennan on the Moor,” LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN
“Darlin’ Corey,” TREASURE MOUNTAIN
“Golden Vanity, The,” SACKETT
“Green Coffee Grows on High Oak Trees,” RIDE THE DARK TRAIL
“Greensleeves,” RIDE THE RIVER
“Hello, Susan Brown,” RIDE THE DARK TRAIL
“Hunters of Kentucky, The,” THE SACKETT BRAND
“John Hardy,” THE LONELY MEN
“Lord Lovell,” RIDE THE RIVER
“Lord Randall,” THE DAYBREAKERS
“My Darling Nellie Gray,” THE DAYBREAKERS
“Oh, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairee,” THE LONELY MEN
“On Jordan’s Stormy Banks,” THE LONELY MEN
“Rickett’s Hornpipe,” RIDE THE RIVER
“Rock of Ages,” THE LONELY MEN
“Rock of Ages,” THE SKY-LINERS
“Skip to My Lou,” TREASURE MOUNTAIN
“Sweet Betsy,” THE DAYBREAKERS
“Zebra Dun,” THE LONELY MEN
NARRATORS OF THE SACKETT NOVELS
SACKETT’S LAND Barnabas Sackett
TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS Barnabas Sackett
THE WARRIOR’S PATH Kin-Ring Sackett
JUBAL SACKETT Jubal Sackett
RIDE THE RIVER Echo Sackett
THE DAYBREAKERS Tyrel Sackett
SACKETT William Tell Sackett
LANDO Orlando Sackett
MOJAVE CROSSING William Tell Sackett
MUSTANG MAN Nolan Sackett
THE LONELY MEN William Tell Sackett
GALLOWAY Flagan Sackett
TREASURE MOUNTAIN William Tell Sackett
LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN William Tell Sackett
RIDE THE DARK TRAIL Logan Sackett
THE SACKETT BRAND William Tell Sackett
THE SKY-LINERS Flagan Sackett
CHRONOLOGY OF THE SACKETT NOVELS
SACKETT’S LAND c. 1600
TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS c. 1600–1620
THE WARRIOR’S PATH c. 1620s
JUBAL SACKETT c. 1620s
RIDE THE RIVER c. 1840s–1850s (before Civil War)
THE DAYBREAKERS c. 1870–1872
SACKETT c. 1874–1875
LANDO c. 1873–1875
MOJAVE CROSSING c. 1875–1879
MUSTANG MAN c. 1875–1879
THE LONELY MEN c. 1875–1879
GALLOWAY c. 1875–1879
TREASURE MOUNTAIN c. 1875–1879
LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN c. 1875–1879
RIDE THE DARK TRAIL c. 1875–1879
THE SACKETT BRAND c. 1875–1879
THE SKY-LINERS c. 1875–1879
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NOVELS
BENDIGO SHAFTER
BORDEN CHANTRY
BRIONNE
THE BROKEN GUN
THE BURNING HILLS
THE CALIFORNIOS
CALLAGHEN
CATLOW
CHANCY
THE CHEROKEE TRAIL
COMSTOCK LODE
CONAGHER
CROSSFIRE TRAIL
DARK CANYON
DOWN THE LONG HILLS
THE EMPTY LAND
FAIR BLOWS THE WIND
FALLON
THE FIRST FAST DRAW
FLINT
GUNS OF THE TIMBERLANDS
HANGING WOMAN CREEK
THE HAUNTED MESA
HELLER WITH A GUN
THE HIGH GRADERS
HIGH LONESOME
HONDO
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
THE IRON MARSHAL
THE KEY-LOCK MAN
KID RODELO
KILKENNY
KILLOE
KILRONE
KIOWA TRAIL
LAST OF THE BREED
LAST STAND AT PAPAGO WELLS
THE LONESOME GODS
THE MAN CALLED NOON
THE MAN FROM SKIBBEREEN
THE MAN FROM THE BROKEN HILLS
MATAGORDA
MILO TALON
THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY WAR
NORTH TO THE RAILS
OVER ON THE DRY SIDE
PASSIN’ THROUGH
THE PROVING TRAIL
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
RADIGAN
REILLY’S LUCK
THE RIDER OF LOST CREEK
RIVERS WEST
THE SHADOW RIDERS
SHALAKO
SHOWDOWN AT YELLOW BUTTE
SILVER CANYON
SITKA
SON OF A WANTED MAN
TAGGART
THE TALL STRANGER
TO TAME A LAND
TUCKER
UNDER THE SWEETWATER RIM
UTAH BLAINE
THE WALKING DRUM
WEST WARD THE TIDE
WHERE THE LONG GRASS BLOWS
SHORT-STORY COLLECTIONS
BEYOND THE GREAT SNOW MOUNTAINS
BOWDRIE
BOWDRIE’S LAW
BUCKSKIN RUN
DUTCHMAN’S FLAT
THE HILLS OF HOMICIDE
LAW OF THE DESERT BORN
LONG RIDE HOME
MONUMENT ROCK
NIGHT OVER THE SOLOMONS
OFF THE MANGROVE COAST
THE OUTLAWS OF MESQUITE
THE RIDER OF THE RUBY HILLS
RIDING FOR THE BRAND
THE STRONG SHALL LIVE
THE TRAIL TO CRAZY MAN
VALLEY OF THE SUN
WAR PARTY
WEST FROM SINGAPORE
WEST OF DODGE
YONDERING
SACKETT TITLES
SACKETT’S LAND
TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS
THE WARRIOR’S PATH
JUBAL SACKETT
RIDE THE RIVER
THE DAY BREAKERS
SACKETT
LANDO
MOJAVE CROSSING
MUSTANG MAN
THE LONELY MEN
GALLOWAY
TREASURE MOUNTAIN
LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN
RIDE THE DARK TRAIL
THE SACKETT BRAND
THE SKY-LINERS
THE HOPALONG CASSIDY NOVELS
THE RIDERS OF HIGH ROCK
THE RUSTLERS OF WEST FORK
THE TRAIL TO SEVEN PINES
TROUBLE SHOOTER
NONFICTION
EDUCATION OF A WANDERING MAN
FRONTIER
THE SACKETT COMPANION:
A Personal Guide to the Sackett Novels
A TRAIL OF MEMORIES:
The quotations of Louis L’Amour, compiled by Angelique L’Amour
POETRY
SMOKE FROM THIS ALTAR
ABOUT LOUIS L’AMOUR
“I think of myself in the oral tradition—as a troubador, a village taleteller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That’s the way I’d like to be remembered—as a storyteller. A good storyteller.”
It is doubtful that any author could be as at home in the world recreated in his novels as Louis Dearborn L’Amour. Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally “walked the land my characters walk.” His personal experiences as well as his lifelong devotion to historical research combined to give Mr. L’Amour the unique knowledge and understanding of people, events, and the challenge of the American frontier that became the hallmarks of his popularity.
Of French-Irish descent, Mr. L’Amour could trace his own family in North America back to the early 1600s and follow their steady progression westward, “always on the frontier.” As a boy growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, he absorbed all he could about his family’s frontier heritage, including the story of his great-grandfather who was scalped by Sioux warriors.
Spurred by an eager curiosity and desire to broaden his horizons, Mr. L’Amour left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs including seaman, lumberjack, elephant handler, skinner of dead cattle, assessment miner, and officer on tank destroyers during World War II. During his “yondering” days he also circled the world on a freighter, sailed a dhow on the Red Sea, was shipwrecked in the West Indies and stranded in the Mojave Desert. He won fifty-one of fifty-nine fights as a professional boxer and worked as a journalist and lecturer. He was a voracious reader and collector of rare books. Mr. L’Amour’s personal library of some 10,000 volumes covers a broad range of scholarly disciplines including many personal papers, maps, and diaries of the pioneers.
Mr. L’Amour “wanted to write almost from the time I could talk.” After developing a widespread following for his many adventure stories written for the fiction magazines, Mr. L’Amour published his first full-length novel, HONDO, in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 100 books is in print; there are nearly 200 million copies of his books in print worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors in modern literary history. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and more than forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and television movies.
His hardcover bestsellers include THE LONESOME GODS, THE WALKING DRUM (his twelfth century historical novel), JUBAL SACKETT, LAST OF THE BREED, and THE HAUNTED MESA.
The recipient of many great honors and awards, in 1983 Mr. L’Amour became the first novelist ever to be awarded the National Gold Medal by the United States Congress in honor of his life’s work. In 1984 he was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan.
Louis L’Amour died on June 10, 1988. His wife Kathy, and their two children, Beau and Angelique, carry the L’Amour tradition forward.