Louis L'Amour

More than any writer before or since, Louis L'Amour brought the American West to life....

Desert Death-Song is a compilation of some of Louis L’Amour’s greatest stories, many of which might otherwise be difficult to find....

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it"....

A young gunslinger is changed for the better by meeting a beautiful woman. A classic range-war Western....

Lance Kilkenny's gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears....

Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of US Air Force major Joe Mack, a man born out of time....

Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to make his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a royal warrant had been sworn out against him and that men were searching for him in every port....

Majestically it rose from the icy waters, the gateway to the awesome wilderness of Alaska. Sitka drew all brand of adventurers, con men, criminals, and pioneers—men such as trail-tough, battle-hardened Jean LaBarge.

They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada....

Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of the Revolution, broke out of jail and headed north from Mexico with nothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new trouble....

Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with....

For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows....

There, in the high, lonesome country, he came upon a vein of pure gold....

Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon. He has fully recovered when the train pulls into a fort to stock up on supplies....

This collection of six exciting Western stories from early in Louis L’Amour’s career begins with “Fork Your Own Broncs”, in which Mac Marcy, who had saved for seven years to run his own small cattle ranch, sees his dream come true, only to have it threatened by Jingle Bob Kenyon....

After having to kill a man in Tennessee, Tyrel hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a place where people could raise their children in peace.

The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside....

In the first in this trio of Western stories by Louis L'Amour - "Black Rock" - Jim Gatlin, a Texas trail driver, arrives in the town of Tucker where he finds himself drawn into the middle of an all-out battle for the XY Ranch when he kills the segundo of Wing Cary's Flying C Ranch....

“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....

Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings....