Louis L’Amour Books

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Louis Dearborn L’Amour was an American journalist and a short story writer who was born on 22 March 1908. L’Amour books consisted mainly of Western stories, though he normally referred them as Frontiers. Furthermore, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry. A majority of his books were adapted into movies. John Wayne had even termed Louis L’Amour as one of the most interesting people in this world. Louis L’Amour books are still popular with some even undergoing multiple publications. Louis L’Amour was born in North Darkota to Dr. Louis Charles and Emily Dearborn. L’Amour is of French ancestry on his father’s side and Irish on his mother’s side. His father was a local politician, large animal veterinarian and farm equipment broker who arrived in North Dakota in the year 1882.

Order of The Sacketts Series

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1 The Daybreakers 1960 Description / Buy
2 Sackett 1961 Description / Buy
3 Lando 1962 Description / Buy
4 Mojave Crossing 1964 Description / Buy
5 The Sackett Brand 1965 Description / Buy
6 Mustang Man 1966 Description / Buy
7 The Sky-Liners 1967 Description / Buy
8 The Lonely Men 1969 Description / Buy
9 Galloway 1970 Description / Buy
10 Ride the Dark Trail 1972 Description / Buy
11 Treasure Mountain 1972 Description / Buy
12 War Party 1973 Description / Buy
13 Sackett's Land 1974 Description / Buy
14 To the Far Blue Mountains 1976 Description / Buy
15 Lonely on the Mountain 1980 Description / Buy
16 Ride the River 1983 Description / Buy
17 The Warrior's Path 1984 Description / Buy
18 Jubal Sackett 1985 Description / Buy
19 End of the Drive 1997 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of The Sacketts Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Sackett's Land 1974 Description / Buy
2 To the Far Blue Mountains 1976 Description / Buy
3 The Warrior's Path 1984 Description / Buy
4 Jubal Sackett 1985 Description / Buy
5 Ride the River 1983 Description / Buy
6 The Daybreakers 1960 Description / Buy
7 Lando 1962 Description / Buy
8 Sackett 1961 Description / Buy
9 Mojave Crossing 1964 Description / Buy
10 The Sackett Brand 1965 Description / Buy
11 The Sky-Liners 1967 Description / Buy
12 The Lonely Men 1969 Description / Buy
13 Mustang Man 1966 Description / Buy
14 Galloway 1970 Description / Buy
15 Treasure Mountain 1972 Description / Buy
16 Ride the Dark Trail 1972 Description / Buy
17 Lonely on the Mountain 1980 Description / Buy
18 War Party 1973 Description / Buy
19 End of the Drive 1997 Description / Buy

Order of Talon Series

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1 Rivers West 1975 Description / Buy
2 The Man from the Broken Hills 1975 Description / Buy
3 Milo Talon 1981 Description / Buy

Order of Chantry Series

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1 North to the Rails 1971 Description / Buy
2 Fair Blows the Wind 1973 Description / Buy
3 The Ferguson Rifle 1973 Description / Buy
4 Over on the Dry Side 1975 Description / Buy
5 Borden Chantry 1977 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Chantry Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Fair Blows the Wind 1973 Description / Buy
2 The Ferguson Rifle 1973 Description / Buy
3 Borden Chantry 1977 Description / Buy
4 North to the Rails 1971 Description / Buy
5 Over on the Dry Side 1975 Description / Buy

Order of Kilkenny Series

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1 Kilkenny 1954 Description / Buy
2 The Rider of Lost Creek 1976 Description / Buy
3 The Mountain Valley War / A Man Called Trent 1978 Description / Buy
4 A Gun for Kilkenny 1997 Description / Buy
5 Monument Rock 1998 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Kilkenny Series

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1 The Rider of Lost Creek 1976 Description / Buy
2 The Mountain Valley War / A Man Called Trent 1978 Description / Buy
3 Kilkenny 1954 Description / Buy
4 A Gun for Kilkenny 1997 Description / Buy
5 Monument Rock 1998 Description / Buy

Order of Hopalong Cassidy Series

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1 The Riders of High Rock 1951 Description / Buy
2 The Rustlers of West Fork 1951 Description / Buy
3 The Trail to Seven Pines 1951 Description / Buy
4 Trouble Shooter 1952 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Hopalong Cassidy Series

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1 The Rustlers of West Fork 1951 Description / Buy
2 The Trail to Seven Pines 1951 Description / Buy
3 The Riders of High Rock 1951 Description / Buy
4 Trouble Shooter 1952 Description / Buy

Order of Louis L’Amour Standalone Novels

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1 Showdown at Yellow Butte 1953 Description / Buy
2 Crossfire Trail 1954 Description / Buy
3 Utah Blaine 1954 Description / Buy
4 To Tame a Land 1955 Description / Buy
5 Heller with a Gun 1955 Description / Buy
6 Guns of the Timberlands 1955 Description / Buy
7 Silver Canyon 1956 Description / Buy
8 The Burning Hills 1956 Description / Buy
9 Sitka 1957 Description / Buy
10 Last Stand at Papago Wells 1957 Description / Buy
11 The Tall Stranger 1957 Description / Buy
12 Radigan 1959 Description / Buy
13 Flint 1960 Description / Buy
14 Killoe 1962 Description / Buy
15 High Lonesome 1962 Description / Buy
16 Dark Canyon 1963 Description / Buy
17 Kiowa Trail 1964 Description / Buy
18 Hanging Woman Creek 1964 Description / Buy
19 The Key-Lock Man 1965 Description / Buy
20 The High Graders 1965 Description / Buy
21 The Broken Gun 1966 Description / Buy
22 Kilrone 1966 Description / Buy
23 Matagorda 1967 Description / Buy
24 Brionne 1968 Description / Buy
25 Chancy 1968 Description / Buy
26 Conagher 1969 Description / Buy
27 Under the Sweetwater Rim 1971 Description / Buy
28 Tucker 1971 Description / Buy
29 The Man from Skibbereen 1973 Description / Buy
30 The Quick and the Dead 1973 Description / Buy
31 The Californios 1974 Description / Buy
32 Where the Long Grass Blows 1976 Description / Buy
33 The Iron Marshal 1979 Description / Buy
34 The Proving Trail 1979 Description / Buy
35 Kiowa Trail and Killoe 1979 Description / Buy
36 The Cherokee Trail 1982 Description / Buy
37 The Shadow Riders 1982 Description / Buy
38 Son of a Wanted Man 1984 Description / Buy
39 Where Buzzards Fly 1986 Description / Buy
40 Riding for the Brand 1986 Description / Buy
41 South of Deadwood 1986 Description / Buy
42 Showdown Trail 1987 Description / Buy
43 Dead End Drift 1987 Description / Buy
44 The Turkeyfeather Riders ( With: Jon Tuska) 1988 Description / Buy
45 Bowdrie Passes Through 1988 Description / Buy
46 The Louis L'Amour Companion 1992 Description / Buy
47 Black Rock: A Western Trio ( With: Jon Tuska) 1994 Description / Buy
48 The Marshal of Sentinel 1995 Description / Buy
49 Louis L'Amour Trail Mix: Volume Two ( With: Willie Nelson) 2002 Description / Buy
50 The Sixth Shotgun 2003 Description / Buy
51 The First Fast Draw 2003 Description / Buy
52 Big Medicine 2008 Description / Buy
53 Dawn Riders 2010 Description / Buy
54 The Black Rock Coffin Makers 2013 Description / Buy
55 Riders of the Tumbling K 2014 Description / Buy
56 Showdown 2017 Description / Buy
57 Three Bullets for the Cactus Kid (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy
58 Bannon (Short Story) 2019 Description / Buy

Order of Louis L'Amour Short Story Collections

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1 Smoke from This Altar 1939 Description / Buy
2 The Strong Shall Live 1980 Description / Buy
3 Buckskin Run 1981 Description / Buy
4 Law of the Desert Born 1983 Description / Buy
5 Bowdrie's Law 1984 Description / Buy
6 Dutchman's Flat 1986 Description / Buy
7 Night Over the Solomons 1986 Description / Buy
8 The Trail to Crazy Man 1986 Description / Buy
9 Man Riding West 1986 Description / Buy
10 The Rider of the Ruby Hills 1986 Description / Buy
11 West from Singapore 1987 Description / Buy
12 Lonigan 1988 Description / Buy
13 Long Ride Home 1989 Description / Buy
14 Grub Line Rider 1990 Description / Buy
15 The Outlaws of Mesquite 1990 Description / Buy
16 West of the Tularosa 1992 Description / Buy
17 Valley of the Sun 1995 Description / Buy
18 West of Dodge 1996 Description / Buy
19 Mistakes Can Kill You 1997 Description / Buy
20 Monument Rock 1998 Description / Buy
21 Beyond the Great Snow Mountains 1999 Description / Buy
22 May There Be a Road 2001 Description / Buy
23 With These Hands 2002 Description / Buy
24 From the Listening Hills 2003 Description / Buy
25 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1 2003 Description / Buy
26 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2 2004 Description / Buy
27 Home in the Valley 2005 Description / Buy
28 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 3 2005 Description / Buy
29 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4 2006 Description / Buy
30 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour Volume 5 2007 Description / Buy
31 Big Country, Volume 1 (Short Story) 2007 Description / Buy
32 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 6 2008 Description / Buy
33 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 7 2009 Description / Buy
34 The Frontier Stories 2009 Description / Buy
35 The Man from Battle Flat 2010 Description / Buy
36 Glory Riders (Short Story) ( With: Jon Tuska) 2011 Description / Buy
37 The Strong Land 2012 Description / Buy
38 Desert Death-Song 2013 Description / Buy
39 We Shaped the Land with Our Guns 2014 Description / Buy
40 The Chick Bowdrie Short Stories Bundle 2015 Description / Buy
41 Golden Gunmen (Short Story) 2016 Description / Buy

Order of Louis L’Amour Non-Fiction Books

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1 Frontier 1984 Description / Buy
2 The Sackett Companion 1988 Description / Buy
3 A Trail of Memories: The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour 1988 Description / Buy
4 Education of a Wandering Man 1989 Description / Buy
5 Martin H. M. Schreiber: Last of a Breed (Short Story) 2017 Description / Buy
6 Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures - Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes 2018 Description / Buy
7 Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2 - More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes 2019 Description / Buy

Order of Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures Series

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1 Hondo 1953 Description / Buy
2 Kilkenny 1954 Description / Buy
3 Taggart 1959 Description / Buy
4 Shalako 1962 Description / Buy
5 How the West Was Won 1962 Description / Buy
6 Kid Rodelo 1966 Description / Buy
7 Down the Long Hills 1968 Description / Buy
8 The Man Called Noon 1969 Description / Buy
9 The Empty Land 1969 Description / Buy
10 Fallon 1969 Description / Buy
11 Reilly's Luck 1970 Description / Buy
12 Callaghen 1972 Description / Buy
13 Fair Blows the Wind 1973 Description / Buy
14 The Ferguson Rifle 1973 Description / Buy
15 Over on the Dry Side 1975 Description / Buy
16 Westward the Tide 1976 Description / Buy
17 Bendigo Shafter 1979 Description / Buy
18 Yondering 1980 Description / Buy
19 Comstock Lode 1981 Description / Buy
20 The Lonesome Gods 1983 Description / Buy
21 The Hills of Homicide 1983 Description / Buy
22 Bowdrie 1983 Description / Buy
23 The Walking Drum 1984 Description / Buy
24 Passin' Through 1985 Description / Buy
25 Last of the Breed 1986 Description / Buy
26 The Haunted Mesa 1987 Description / Buy
27 Off the Mangrove Coast 2000 Description / Buy
28 Catlow 2018 Description / Buy
29 No Traveller Returns 2018 Description / Buy

Order of Louis L' Amour Short Stories/Novellas

# Read Title Published Details
1 Riders of the Dawn (Short Story) 1951 Description / Buy

Order of The Golden West Series with Zane Grey, Max Brand, Jon Tuska, Christopher Lane

# Read Title Published Details
1 Stories of the Golden West, Book 3 ( By: Zane Grey, Max Brand, Jon Tuska, Christopher Lane) 2002 Description / Buy
2 Stories of the Golden West, Book 5 ( By: Grover Gardner, Zane Grey, Max Brand, Jon Tuska) 2004 Description / Buy
3 Stories Of The Golden West, Book 7 ( With: Zane Grey, Max Brand) 2006 Description / Buy

Louis L'Amour Anthologies

# Read Title Published Details
1 Western Movies 1997 Description / Buy
2 The Best of the American West 1998 Description / Buy
3 The Best of the American West II 1999 Description / Buy
4 Guns of the West 2002 Description / Buy
5 The Golden West 2003 Description / Buy
6 The Untamed West 2004 Description / Buy
7 Lone Star Law 2005 Description / Buy
8 Lost Trails 2007 Description / Buy
9 The Lawless West 2007 Description / Buy
10 Ghost Towns 2010 Description / Buy
11 Three Classic Westerns 2013 Description / Buy
12 Trailin' West 2016 Description / Buy
13 G-Men Detective - Fall 1950 2022 Description / Buy
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Despite the fact that the area around Jamestown was mainly farmland, livestock and cowboys mostly traveled through the town on their way to ranches in the East and Montana. L’Amour played Indians and Cowboys in their family barn, which also was used as his dad’s veterinary hospital. He also spent a fair share of his time at the local library reading books written by authors such as G.A Hentley, a British writer who mainly wrote historical novel books in the late 19th Century. L’Amour many at times said that the novels that he wrote gave him a great deal on knowledge especially when going to school. After a number of bank failures affected the economy, Emily and Dr. L’Amour decided to hit the road.

Louis L’Amour Awards

In the year 1982, Louis L’Amour was awarded with a Congregational Gold Medal and later on in the year 1984, President Ronald Reagan awarded him with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Louis L’Amour Books into Movies

Due to the immense popularity of his books, Louis L’Amour books were adapted for screenplay. Some of his books to be adapted include Hondo, Five Mile Creek, Conagher and Crossfire.

Louis L’Amour Best Books

Last of the Breeds: One of the best performing series by the critically acclaimed author, Louis L’Amour. In this book, the author introduces the reader to Major Joe Jack, who is a native American who had been placed under captivity by the Soviet Union, towards the end of World War II. As luck would have it, Major Joe Jack manages to escape the prison, which he had been placed for quite some time. Thus, he not only has to survive in the rural sides of Siberia, but he also has to find a way back to the United States. Having been trained and raised to live in the jungle, Joe not only makes his clothes using animal hide but he also makes weapons using any suitable material that he finds along the way.

As he tries to survive in inhumane conditions, Jack also has to ensure that he stays away from the colonel who had captured him. He manages to form solid relationship with the tappers and through this relationship, he is able to participate in food and hide exchanges. If you are a fan of Louis L’Amour, then you are definitely going to fall in love with this contemporary epic. Proving that he is one of the best author’s, Louis L’Amour sets this novel in Siberia. Like most of his novels, Last of Breeds is another vehicle that he uses to explore fortitude, naturalism and individual courage.

Hondo: This is another great read by the author, Louis L’Amour and this novel was first published in the year 1953.

This narrative follows closely Hondo Lane, a loner western icon with his engagements with the local Apache community, General Crook’s command and Mrs. Angie Lowe, a romantic contact. The book is set in the 1880’s in the unwelcoming southwest. The author, L’Amour describes the events in this book using his lean and exceedingly vivid style. Furthermore, the author narrates the story using emotional sensitivity and surprising warmth with most of the book’s memorable scenes being Hondo’s interaction with Lowe and her exceedingly young son, Johnny. All in all, John is not only a gunman, but also a survivor who is riding dispatch for one George Crook, the commander of the Southwest Army forces. Commander George Crook values men such as Hondo, who are not only of mixed blood but also clearly know the Apache’s ways of life.

Apart from Hondo, the author also introduces the reader to Angie Lowe, the heroine. Just like Hondo, Angie is a fighter and a young woman who is more than determined in bringing up her exceedingly young son. Angie’s husband had mysteriously disappeared, leaving Angie to fend for her young son. With that being said, this is a well-written book, which will unquestionably keep you entertained from the first page to the last.

When Does The Next Louis L'Amour book come out?

Louis L'Amour doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Louis L\'Amour\'s Lost Treasures: Volume 2 - More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes and was released on November, 19th 2019. It is the newest book in the Louis L’Amour Non-Fiction Books.

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