Lance Kilkenny has a debt to pay, and he isn’t about to let the friend who saved his life go down in a range war. But when Kilkenny tries to stop the fighting, he finds there’s more at stake than land or wire. Whoever is stirring up trouble has big ideas for the Live Oak country—and an army of hired guns to back them up. Nita Riordan, the beautiful and fiery owner of the Apple Canyon Saloon, warns Lance that the mysterious man orchestrating the conflict wants him dead. Lance realizes that if he doesn’t watch his step, he’ll pay the debt he owes with his own blood.
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Kilkenny has a debt to pay, and he isn't about to let the friend who saved his life go down in a range war. But when the gunman tries to stop the fighting, he finds there's more at stake than land or wire. Someone has big ideas for the Live Oak country, and an army of hired guns to back him up. And Kilkenny doesn't watch out, he'll pay the debt with his own blood.
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"I think of myself in the oral tradition--as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of a 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 re-created 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 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, and miner, and was an officer in the transportation corps 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. His personal library contained 17,000 volumes.
Mr. L'Amour "wanted to write almost from the time I could talk." After developing a widespread following for his many frontiers and adventure stories written for fiction magazines, Mr. L'Amour published his first full length novel, Hondo, in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 120 books is in print; there are more than 300 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.
The recipient of many great honor and awards, in 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to ever to be awarded the Congressional 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 Reagan.
Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988. His wife, Kathy, and their two children, Beau and Angelique, carry the L'Amour publishing tradition forward with new books written by the author during his lifetime to be published by Bantam.
It is doubtful that any author could be as at home in the world re-created 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 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, and miner, and was an officer in the transportation corps 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. His personal library contained 17,000 volumes.
Mr. L'Amour "wanted to write almost from the time I could talk." After developing a widespread following for his many frontiers and adventure stories written for fiction magazines, Mr. L'Amour published his first full length novel, Hondo, in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 120 books is in print; there are more than 300 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.
The recipient of many great honor and awards, in 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to ever to be awarded the Congressional 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 Reagan.
Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988. His wife, Kathy, and their two children, Beau and Angelique, carry the L'Amour publishing tradition forward with new books written by the author during his lifetime to be published by Bantam.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Introduction to Kilkenny, lots of action,
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This review is from: The Rider of Lost Creek (Paperback)
Louis L'Amour's best known series are about the Sackett family. Most of the rest of his stories focus on a few characters that are rarely mentioned again in his books. "The Rider of Lost Creek" is an exception; this is the first of three books about Lance Kilkenny, one of the fastest gunfighters in the west. Kilkenny tries to stay out of sight and out of trouble, but when a friend of his gets into trouble, Kilkenny comes to straighten things out.
I once heard that Louis L'Amour kept two typewriters in his office. When he hit writer's block on one story, he would switch to the second typewriter. I wonder if this happened on this story because one of the secondary characters, Steve Lord, at the start of the story seems like a good guy, but later he turns out to be a bad guy. I am often amazed at just how well Louis L'Amour's wrote. For example in chapter 7, to give us some background of Rusty Gates, one of the good guys, there is a paragraph that starts: "His mother had died when he was sixteen, working to make ends meet. A year later, Rusty had lost a sister to the cholera, and one brother was killed by a bad horse. Another brother, at fourteen went to work on a riverboat, and his sister, at sixteen, married a doctor in Joplin. At sixteen, Rusty road away west to find what fortune might offer. He wanted land of his own, a few head of horses and cattle." In just a few sentences Louis L'Amour reminds us just how hard life was a150 years ago, he shows us how alone Rusty is, and he lets us know that Rusty is the kind of guy who is trying to build civilization. It is well done. The basic plot of the "The Rider of Lost Creek" is Kilkenny's friend, Mort Davis, is in trouble, two bigger cattle ranches look to be getting ready to wipe him out. Kilkenny shows up on the scene and realizes that there is more going on that meets the eye. This is more of your typical western movie; Kilkenny leaves the girl and rides off into the sunset. This is a fun story, one of Louis L'Amour's best. If you enjoy a good western, this is a good one to read.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Well told tale,
This review is from: The Rider of Lost Creek (Paperback)
The first of the three novels (that I know of) about Lance Kilkenny, an honest man with an unwanted reputation as a gunfighter. In this one he rides to help a friend who is cought in the middle of a range war, but as Kilkenny finds out, there is a lot more going on than just a range war. This is a good and entertaining novel which introduces the characters that apear again in "The Mountain Vally War" and "Kilkenny" This one I've read three times, already, and am sure to read it again and again in the years to come. It's a well told tale in Louis L'Amour's unequaled style and filled with well crafted characters. I reckomend it, also the other two Kilkenny novels, they to are more than worth every page.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A vivid glimpse of struggle and survival on the harsh frontier,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rider of Lost Creek (Audio CD)
Dynamically narrated by Jim Gough, The Rider Of Lost Creek is an unabridged audiobook presentation of celebrated author Louis L'Amour's western novel about a gunman who owes his life to man whose claim on a watering hole is disputed by two wealthy, feuding cattle ranchers. The drama comes alive through Austin native Jim Gough's engrossing presentation, and L'Amour's painstaking attention to detail and realism shine through as always, creating a vivid glimpse of struggle and survival on the harsh frontier. The tension stays high from the beginning to the very end. 4 CDs, 4 1/2 hours, tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking.
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