"Killers were loose in the land. Only Kedrick could stop them." All edges yellow. #1-3893-3.
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars
READS LIKE A GREAT OLD FASHIONED WESTERN MOVIE,
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This review is from: Showdown at Yellow Butte (Paperback)
JUST LOVED THIS BOOK , MR LAMOUR LETS US DELVE INTO THE MIND OF HIRED GUNS AND THE DECISIONS THEY HAD TO MAKE. ALSO THERE IS A BIT OF MYSTERY IN THE STORY LINE. IN FACT IT HAS EVERY INGREDIENT ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, ACTION AND TRAGEDY WHAT MORE CAN YOU ASK. READ IT AND ENJOY
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Another range war in the old west,
By New England Pat (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Showdown at Yellow Butte (Paperback)
This Louis L'Amour novel is another variation of the familiar plot of land ownership vs. squatters but with a different twist. A ruthless speculator wants to wrest control of an area where a great cache of Spanish gold may be hidden and hires an outfit of hard cases to get rid of the settlers and their town of Yellow Butte. The story is similar to L'Amour's "The Tall Stranger", with the same elements of a super cowboy, murdering gunslingers and romance in place. A mysterious grulla, a mouse-colored pony, seems to be the key to the puzzle and points the hero straight to the source of all the mayhem and murder. A nice story in the L'Amour tradition of justice and fair play.
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SHOWDOWN ON THE HOGBACK,
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This is one of the early books written by Louis L'Amour, dating from a 1953 ACE paperback book released under the 'Jim Mayo' name he was using at the time. While the manuscript was first published as a short story under the title "Showdown On The Hogback".The story is pretty straight forward with a man, Tom Kedrick, being hired in New Orleans by an organization named Burwick, Keith, and Gunter, trying to gain money from the government by evicting the "squatters, outlaws, renegades, and wasters", from certain lands in the area of Mustang and Yellow Butte. Kedrick quickly finds out in the town of Yellow Butte that the people on the land have been there some as long as ten years with many others at least a couple years. They are honest, hardworking people and they are about to be swindled by the Burwick, Keith, and Gunter 'land combine'. Also, the organization is aware, as the settlers are not, that all this land will soon be set aside by the U.S. Government as a preserve and reservation as areas for the Navajho and Ute Indian tribes. Now that Tom Kendrick realizes what is about to happen he finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a shooting war with lead throwing gunhands on each side. Through the pages that follow events transpire quickly leading to a final, deadly showdown at Yellow Butte. An early story from the pen of Louis L'Amour from the days of pulp westerns and later as a best selling ACE and Bantam softcover western. Semper Fi.
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EVERYTHING WAS QUIET in Mustang. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grulla mustang, rifle boomed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tom Kedrick, Dornie Shaw, Yellow Butte, Connie Duane, Laredo Shad, Dai Reid, Pit Laine, Alton Burwick, Sue Laine, Loren Keith, Abe Mixus, Captain Kedrick, Chimney Rock, John Gunter, Uncle John, Burt Williams, Miss Duane, Salt Creek, Lee Goff, New Orleans, Pete Slagle, War Between the States, Colonel Keith, Consuelo Duane, Miss Laine New!
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EVERYTHING WAS QUIET in Mustang. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grulla mustang, rifle boomed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tom Kedrick, Dornie Shaw, Yellow Butte, Connie Duane, Laredo Shad, Dai Reid, Pit Laine, Alton Burwick, Sue Laine, Loren Keith, Abe Mixus, Captain Kedrick, Chimney Rock, John Gunter, Uncle John, Burt Williams, Miss Duane, Salt Creek, Lee Goff, New Orleans, Pete Slagle, War Between the States, Colonel Keith, Consuelo Duane, Miss Laine New!
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- The High Lonesome: Epic Solo Climbing Stories by John Long in Front Matter
- What is it? by Rose Williams on page 116
- The Louis L'Amour Companion by Robert Weinberg on page 49, and Back Matter
- Over on the Dry Side by Louis L'Amour in Front Matter
- Wilderness A to Z: An Essential Guide to the Great Outdoors (Outdoor and Nature) by Rachel Carley on page 314
- Beyond the Great Snow Mountains by Louis L'Amour in Front Matter
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