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Louis L'Amour is the only American-born novelist in history to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He published ninety novels, thirty short-story collections, two works of nonfiction, a memoir, Education of a Wandering Man, and a volume of poetry, Smoke from This Altar. There are more than 300 million copies of his books in print.
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 7
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $25.00
There is no story more distinctly American than the western and no writer as great a master of the form as Louis L’Amour. In this seventh volume of L’Amour’s collected short stories, you’ll find some of his most popular characters, heroes who have become a part of our cultural legacy, as... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $25.00
There is no story more distinctly American than the western and no writer as great a master of the form as Louis L’Amour. In this seventh volume of L’Amour’s collected short stories, you’ll find some of his most popular characters, heroes who have become a part of our cultural legacy, as... Read more >
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $25.00
With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $25.00
With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now... Read more >
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Showdown at Yellow Butte
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1983
Price: $4.99
Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1983
Price: $4.99
Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and... Read more >
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 6
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $25.00
One of America’s most beloved storytellers, Louis L’Amour’s vibrant tales of adventure bring the American West to life. Now, in this sixth volume of collected short stories, L’Amour takes us beyond the frontier with thirty-three gripping stories of crime, sports, and the murky world where the two often meet. From suspenseful... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $25.00
One of America’s most beloved storytellers, Louis L’Amour’s vibrant tales of adventure bring the American West to life. Now, in this sixth volume of collected short stories, L’Amour takes us beyond the frontier with thirty-three gripping stories of crime, sports, and the murky world where the two often meet. From suspenseful... Read more >
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Westward the Tide
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter—until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter—until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search... Read more >
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Kilkenny
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
Kilkenny wasn’t looking for trouble when he entered the Clifton House stage station, but trouble found him when a reckless youngster named Tetlow challenged him, drew his gun, and paid for it with his life.
Looking to escape a reputation that he never wanted, Kilkenny settles in the lonely mountain country of... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
Kilkenny wasn’t looking for trouble when he entered the Clifton House stage station, but trouble found him when a reckless youngster named Tetlow challenged him, drew his gun, and paid for it with his life.
Looking to escape a reputation that he never wanted, Kilkenny settles in the lonely mountain country of... Read more >
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Kiowa Trail
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1964
Price: $4.99
Kate Lundy, owner of the Tumbling B, and Conn Dury, her foreman, told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are forbidden on the north side of town. People appreciated the money the cowboys spent but thought them too coarse to be near their homes. Enticed to come calling by... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1964
Price: $4.99
Kate Lundy, owner of the Tumbling B, and Conn Dury, her foreman, told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are forbidden on the north side of town. People appreciated the money the cowboys spent but thought them too coarse to be near their homes. Enticed to come calling by... Read more >
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Guns of the Timberlands
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to... Read more >
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Matagorda
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1985
Price: $4.99
Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery–and finding himself in the middle... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1985
Price: $4.99
Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery–and finding himself in the middle... Read more >
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $25.00
With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $25.00
With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now... Read more >
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The High Graders
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1989
Price: $4.99
The story was that Eli Patterson had died in a gunfight, but Mike Shevlin knew it couldn’t be true: the man who’d been like a father to him had been a Quaker. But when Shevlin rides back to Rafter Crossing to uncover the truth, he finds that the quiet ranching community... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1989
Price: $4.99
The story was that Eli Patterson had died in a gunfight, but Mike Shevlin knew it couldn’t be true: the man who’d been like a father to him had been a Quaker. But when Shevlin rides back to Rafter Crossing to uncover the truth, he finds that the quiet ranching community... Read more >
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $25.00
The fourth volume of Louis L’Amour’s collected short stories features more than forty of the master’s greatest adventure tales in a keepsake edition to cherish for generations. This unique collection gathers stories guaranteed to thrill and delight readers again and again, establishing why Louis L’Amour is truly America’s favorite storyteller.
Louis L’Amour’s... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $25.00
The fourth volume of Louis L’Amour’s collected short stories features more than forty of the master’s greatest adventure tales in a keepsake edition to cherish for generations. This unique collection gathers stories guaranteed to thrill and delight readers again and again, establishing why Louis L’Amour is truly America’s favorite storyteller.
Louis L’Amour’s... Read more >
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North to the Rails
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1982
Price: $4.99
When Tom Chantry comes west to buy cattle, he quickly runs into trouble. During a drunken scuffle in a bar, Dutch Akin challenges Chantry to a gunfight. Leaving town rather than face Akin, Chantry is quickly branded a coward.
Later, when hiring men to take his herd to the railroad, Chantry faces... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1982
Price: $4.99
When Tom Chantry comes west to buy cattle, he quickly runs into trouble. During a drunken scuffle in a bar, Dutch Akin challenges Chantry to a gunfight. Leaving town rather than face Akin, Chantry is quickly branded a coward.
Later, when hiring men to take his herd to the railroad, Chantry faces... Read more >
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 3
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $25.00
This third volume of Louis L'Amour's collected stories gathers twenty-eight tales of the American West in a keepsake edition sure to delight fans old and new. This collection is a thrilling tribute to the unique spirit of our frontier heritage and proves again the enduring popularity of America's favorite storyteller.
The essence... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $25.00
This third volume of Louis L'Amour's collected stories gathers twenty-eight tales of the American West in a keepsake edition sure to delight fans old and new. This collection is a thrilling tribute to the unique spirit of our frontier heritage and proves again the enduring popularity of America's favorite storyteller.
The essence... Read more >
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 5
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $24.00
Louis L’Amour’s world is built on those dramatic moments when men and women cast their fears, doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge into the unknown–into split-second decisions with life-and-death consequences. Nowhere is that more evident than in this latest collection of stories set on the American frontier. Here L’Amour takes... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $24.00
Louis L’Amour’s world is built on those dramatic moments when men and women cast their fears, doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge into the unknown–into split-second decisions with life-and-death consequences. Nowhere is that more evident than in this latest collection of stories set on the American frontier. Here L’Amour takes... Read more >
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Silver Canyon
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1957
Price: $4.99
A TROUBLED TOWN, A DEADLY SECRET
“You’re not wanted in Hattan’s Point,” Matt Brennan was told moments after arriving in town. “There’s trouble here and men are picking sides.” But Matt decided he wasn’t going anywhere. Not until he found out what the dispute was about, and not before he got to... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1957
Price: $4.99
A TROUBLED TOWN, A DEADLY SECRET
“You’re not wanted in Hattan’s Point,” Matt Brennan was told moments after arriving in town. “There’s trouble here and men are picking sides.” But Matt decided he wasn’t going anywhere. Not until he found out what the dispute was about, and not before he got to... Read more >
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Catlow
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been bound as friends since childhood. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become a top cowhand with a wild streak. It took just one disastrous confrontation with a band of greedy ranchers to make him an outlaw. And when he crossed that... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been bound as friends since childhood. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become a top cowhand with a wild streak. It took just one disastrous confrontation with a band of greedy ranchers to make him an outlaw. And when he crossed that... Read more >
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To Tame a Land
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1985
Price: $4.99
Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is forced to leave... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1985
Price: $4.99
Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is forced to leave... Read more >
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The Lonesome Gods
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $5.99
The Lonesome Gods is Louis L'Amour's biggest and most important historical novel to date, a sweeping adventure of the California frontier. Here is the fascinating story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $5.99
The Lonesome Gods is Louis L'Amour's biggest and most important historical novel to date, a sweeping adventure of the California frontier. Here is the fascinating story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the... Read more >
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Radigan
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
When beautiful Angelina Foley presents Tom Radigan with a Spanish grant and claims ownership of his land, he realizes he’s up against a cunning and deadly opportunist. Foley wants him off Vache Creek immediately, and with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and winter coming on, she... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
When beautiful Angelina Foley presents Tom Radigan with a Spanish grant and claims ownership of his land, he realizes he’s up against a cunning and deadly opportunist. Foley wants him off Vache Creek immediately, and with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and winter coming on, she... Read more >
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The Man from the Broken Hills
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1975
Price: $4.99
For years Milo Talon had been riding the outlaw trail, looking for a man who had betrayed his family. Only Hank Rossiter wasn’t the man he had been: old now and blind, Rossiter was trying desperately to hold on to a small ranch to support his daughter, Barbara. Suddenly Talon found... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1975
Price: $4.99
For years Milo Talon had been riding the outlaw trail, looking for a man who had betrayed his family. Only Hank Rossiter wasn’t the man he had been: old now and blind, Rossiter was trying desperately to hold on to a small ranch to support his daughter, Barbara. Suddenly Talon found... Read more >
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To the Far Blue Mountains: The Sacketts
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1984
Price: $5.99
In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after returning to his homeland, discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible.
Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to find his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1984
Price: $5.99
In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after returning to his homeland, discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible.
Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to find his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he... Read more >
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High Lonesome
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1962
Price: $4.99
Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1962
Price: $4.99
Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro... Read more >
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Last of the Breed
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1987
Price: $5.99
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L'Amour's hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1987
Price: $5.99
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L'Amour's hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must... Read more >
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Jubal Sackett
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1986
Price: $5.99
Filled with action, adventure, mystery, and historical detail, the Sackett saga is an unforgettable achievement by one of America's greatest storytellers. In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of this great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land.
Kindred spirits on a restless quest...
Jubal Sackett's urge to... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1986
Price: $5.99
Filled with action, adventure, mystery, and historical detail, the Sackett saga is an unforgettable achievement by one of America's greatest storytellers. In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of this great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land.
Kindred spirits on a restless quest...
Jubal Sackett's urge to... Read more >
