Louis L'Amour (1908–1988)
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Born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 22, 1908, Louis L'Amour's adventurous life could have been the subject of one of his novels. Striking out on his own in 1923, at age 15, L'Amour began a peripatetic existence, taking whatever jobs were available, from skinning dead cattle to being a sailor. mostra altro L'Amour knew early in life that he wanted to be a writer, and the experiences of those years serve as background for some of his later fiction. During the 1930s he published short stories and poetry; his career was interrupted by army service in World War II. After the war, L'Amour began writing for western pulp magazines and wrote several books in the Hopalong Cassidy series using the pseudonym Tex Burns. His first novel, Westward the Tide (1950), serves as an example of L'Amour's frontier fiction, for it is an action-packed adventure story containing the themes and motifs that he uses throughout his career. His fascination with history and his belief in the inevitability of manifest destiny are clear. Also present and typical of L'Amour's work are the strong, capable, beautiful heroine who is immediately attracted to the equally capable hero; a clear moral split between good and evil; reflections on the Native Americans, whose land and ways of life are being disrupted; and a happy ending. Although his work is somewhat less violent than that of other western writers, L'Amour's novels all contain their fair share of action, usually in the form of gunfights or fistfights. L'Amour's major contribution to the western genre is his attempt to create, in 40 or more books, the stories of three families whose histories intertwine as the generations advance across the American frontier. The novels of the Irish Chantry, English Sackett, and French Talon families are L'Amour's most ambitious project, and sadly were left unfinished at his death. Although L'Amour did not complete all of the novels, enough of the series exists to demonstrate his vision. L'Amour's strongest attribute is his ability to tell a compelling story; readers do not mind if the story is similar to one they have read before, for in the telling, L'Amour adds enough small twists of plot and detail to make it worth the reader's while. L'Amour fans also enjoy the bits of information he includes about everything from wilderness survival skills to finding the right person to marry. These lessons give readers the sense that they are getting their money's worth, that there is more to a L'Amour novel than sheer escapism. With over 200 million copies of his books in print worldwide, L'Amour must be counted as one of the most influential writers of westerns in this century. He died from lung cancer on June 10, 1988. (Bowker Author Biography) Louis L'Amour, truly America's favorite storyteller, was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress in honor of his life's work, & was also awarded the Medal of Freedom. There are over 260 million copies of his books in print worldwide. (Publisher Provided) mostra meno
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Opere di Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour: Four Complete Novels (The Tall Stranger, Kilkenny, Hondo, Showdown at Yellow Butte) (1980) 84 copie
Five Complete Novels Series II (Utah Blaine/Crossfire Trail/Heller With a Gun/Last Stand at Papago Wells/To Tame a… (1981) 72 copie
Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Unfinished Manuscripts, Mysterious Stories, and Lost Notes from One of the… (2017) 65 copie
Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2: More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes from One of… (2019) 35 copie
Big Country, Volume 1: Stories of Louis L'Amour (Ride, You Tonto Raiders; and War Party) (2007) 23 copie
Sackett's Gold 13 copie
The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett,… (2014) 13 copie
Louis L'Amour Trio of Tales: McQueen of the Tumbling K, Big Medicine, and Dutchman's Flat (2008) 7 copie
The Hopalong Cassidy Novels 4-Book Bundle: The Rustlers of West Fork, The Trail to Seven Pines, The Riders of High… (2014) 6 copie
THE KILKENNY SAGA 5 copie
The The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Coll Stories L'amour Vol Iii Frontier Stories v. 3 5 copie
Long Ride Home: Stories 5 copie
Big Country, Vol. 2: Stories of Louis L'Amour (West of the Tularosa, Home in the Valley, and West Is Where the… (2009) 5 copie
Shalako - Son of a Wanted Man - Crossfire Trail - the Sackett Brand - Bowdrie - Fallon (1978) 3 copie
Riding for the Brand/McQueen of the Tumbling K/Law of the Desert Born (Louis L'Amour Collector) (2000) 3 copie
The Hand of Kuan-yin 2 copie
Louis L'Amour - Five Softbound Books: The First Fast Draw, Kid Rodelo, How the West Was Won, The Proving Trail,… (1967) 2 copie
Projekt Makatozi 2 copie
Time-Life Book Digest: "I" is for Innocent | The Trail to Seven Pines | Who Killed My Daughter? | French Silk (1992) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Making It the Hard Way 2 copie
One Night Stand 2 copie
Une fille sur la piste 2 copie
Louis L'Amour - Five Softbound Books: Dutchman's Flat, Bowdrie's Law, Silver Canyon, Fallon and Shadow… (1975) 2 copie
il grande solitario 2 copie
Secret of Silver Springs 2 copie
Sackett's Short Stories 2 copie
A Gift of Cochise 2 copie
Louis lamour 2 copie
kid rodelo [Paperback] 2 copie
Best of Louis L'Amour: Keep Travelin/Riding for the Brand/Four Card Draw/Desert Death Song (1998) 2 copie
We Shaped the Land with Our Guns [Annotated]: 21 Classic L'Amour Western Short Stories and Novelettes (1995) 2 copie
Down the Long Hills 2 copie
A Montanha Do Tesouro Livro 1 2 copie
The Defense Of Sentinel 2 copie
A Honra dos Sackett 2 copie
In An Old Temple 2 copie
Sackett # 4 1 copia
Road to Casas Piedras, The 1 copia
Lonely on the Mountain # 16 1 copia
Monument Rock 1 copia
Fair blows the wind 1 copia
The high graders 1 copia
Black Rock Coffin Makers, The - A Mule for Santa Fe - Case Closed: No Prisoners (Dramatized) 1 copia
n Graf vir twee 1 copia
Over On AThe Dry Side 1 copia
Louis L'Amour Collection One 1 copia
A Trilha dos fora-da-lei 1 copia
A Trail Gone Cold 1 copia
The Far Mountains 1 copia
The Man Called Moon 1 copia
Bloed op die Water 1 copia
Man Alleen 1 copia
Net Vriende Bly Leef 1 copia
Um Homem da Pradaria Livro 1 1 copia
Hunted Mesa 1 copia
The Lion Hunter and the Lady 1 copia
The Rustlers of West Fork 1 copia
Guldfloden 1 copia
Manden uden fortid 1 copia
Kamp på liv og død 1 copia
Valley of The Sun 1 copia
A Terra de Sackett Os sacketts 1 copia
North to the rails 1 copia
Sackett - O Indomável Livro 1 1 copia
Confronto no Deserto Livro 1 1 copia
Lost Trails 1 copia
Three Bullets for the Cactus Kid 1 copia
Temmers van die Woestyn 1 copia
Begrav de döda 1 copia
Three Bullets for the Cactus Kid 1 copia
Down the long hills 1 copia
Cowboy Stories 1 copia
Last Stand at Papago Wells, by Louis L'Amour, Fawcett Gold Medal mass market paperback, K1757 1 copia
The Walking Drum 1 copia
Bivacco sulla neve 1 copia
To the Far Blue Mountains(Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Sackett Novel (Sacketts Book 2) 1 copia
Duel i ørkenen 1 copia
Le canon de la folle 1 copia
Golden Gunmen: A Western Sextet 1 copia
LOUIS L'AMOUR COLLECTION - Set Of 6 Books - The Lonely Men - Flint - The Burning Hills - The Lonesome Gods - The… (1981) 1 copia
The Stakes can Kill Ya 1 copia
Jacob Sackett 1 copia
Ride or Start Shootin' 1 copia
Kaukana siintävät vuoret 1 copia
all works 1 copia
Lunga fuga 1 copia
The Trail To Crazy Land 1 copia
The Frontier Series Volume 1 1 copia
Reiter auf dunkler Fährte. 1 copia
Lockendes Gold. 1 copia
The Sacketts (Vol 3) 1 copia
Der ruf des waldes 1 copia
The Broken Gun: A Novel 1 copia
Fuochi sulle colline 1 copia
Un uomo chiamato Mezzogiorno 1 copia
Una donna fuori posto 1 copia
La conquista del Oeste 1 copia
Louis L'Amour Collection Three 1 copia
Riders of the Tumbling K 1 copia
Sixth Shotgun, The (Dramatized) 1 copia
Law of the Desert Born: Stories 1 copia
l'erede del bandito 1 copia
Showdown on the Hogback 1 copia
The Math Teacher 1 copia
Louis L'Amour Collection Two 1 copia
Sackett, O Indomável 1 copia
By Louis L'Amour Law of the Desert Born (The Louis L'Amour Collection) (Louis L'Amour Hardcover… 1 copia
Guns of the Timberland 1 copia
Tales from the Trail 1 copia
The Cherokee Trail 1 copia
The Diamond Of Jehru 1 copia
Trap of Gold & Hattan's Castle 1 copia
Hillside Homicide 1 copia
Ghost of Buckskin Run, The 1 copia
Gun for Kilkenny, A (Dramatized) 1 copia
Hævnens vej 1 copia
Drama i vildmarken 1 copia
The Weary One 1 copia
The Sacketts: To the Far Blue Mountains The Daybreakers Mojave Crossing The Sackett Brand The Lonely Men (1990) 1 copia
North Cape 1 copia
To You, Jeannine 1 copia
Decadence 1 copia
Love Out of Season 1 copia
After Tomorrow 1 copia
Yacodhapura 1 copia
The Running Hills 1 copia
Steppe 1 copia
To Giordano Bruno 1 copia
Hildebrand 1 copia
Secret Pass 1 copia
Bluff Creek Station 1 copia
Big Man 1 copia
Duffy's Man 1 copia
Hattan's Castle 1 copia
Trail to Squaw Springs 1 copia
Author's Tea 1 copia
A Friend of the General 1 copia
Banked Fires 1 copia
Winter 1 copia
Shanghai Not Without Gestures 1 copia
The Fighting Four 1 copia
Interlude: Hongkong Harbor 1 copia
Words From a Wanderer 1 copia
To Cleone: In Budapest 1 copia
I'm a Stranger Here 1 copia
Without This Land 1 copia
Collectors Series 1 copia
A Handful of Stars 1 copia
Life 1 copia
Biography in Stone 1 copia
An Ember in the Dark 1 copia
Nocturne 1 copia
Louis L'Amour Collector's Edition: Desert Death Song / Big Medicine / Dutchman's Flat / His Brother's Debt / Keep… (1999) 1 copia
Bowdrie Rides a Coyote Trail / Down Sonara Way: A Chick Bowdrie Story (Louis L'Amour) (2001) 1 copia
Wings over the Waves 1 copia
The Man who Stole Shakespeare 1 copia
The Admiral 1 copia
Then Comes Spring 1 copia
I Came To Create 1 copia
Lines To a Season 1 copia
I Shall Go Back 1 copia
Let Me Forget 1 copia
Rose of Memory 1 copia
To One Without Faith 1 copia
Mutation 1 copia
Rain 1 copia
Let It Snow 1 copia
Ship Across The Sky 1 copia
Winter Winds 1 copia
Forest People 1 copia
Twilight 1 copia
Tranquillity 1 copia
The Pioneer 1 copia
The Gladiator 1 copia
Call of the Tropics 1 copia
Picture 1 copia
Old Jerry 1 copia
A Wail From a Pulpeteer 1 copia
Question 1 copia
McVey 1 copia
Thicker than Blood 1 copia
From Here to Banggai 1 copia
Glorious! 1 copia
The Dancing Kate 1 copia
Where There's Fighting 1 copia
South of Suez 1 copia
Well of the Unholy Light 1 copia
The House of Qasavara 1 copia
On the Road to Amurang 1 copia
In This Is Beauty 1 copia
East of Gorontalo 1 copia
My Three Friends 1 copia
Men to Match the Hills 1 copia
Alkali Basin 1 copia
The Sea Off Vanua Levu 1 copia
Det blodige opgør 1 copia
West of Dry Creek 1 copia
Louis L'Amour - Five Softbound Books: Under the Sweetwater Rim, Hondo, The Rider of the Ruby Hills (and other… (1970) 1 copia
In Protest 1 copia
THE CHEROKEE TRAIL, DOWN THE LONG HILLS, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN, PASSIN THROUGH, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL, RIVERS WEST. (1900) 1 copia
Marshal of Canyon Gap 1 copia
Home is the Hunter 1 copia
Calloway 1 copia
Rain on the Halfmoon 1 copia
Stage to Willowspring 1 copia
Louis L'Amour - Five Softbound Books: North to the Rail, End of the Drive, High Lonesome, Long Ride Home and Off the… (1970) 1 copia
To Hang Me High 1 copia
A Man Named Utah 1 copia
Battle at Burnt Camp 1 copia
Ironwood Station 1 copia
The Sackett Novels: Galloway; The Sky-liners; The Man from Broken Hills; Ride the Dark Trail 1 copia
Poetry Society of Oklahoma : State Anthology (Let Me Remember, Interlude: Hong Kong Harbor) (1936) 1 copia
The Sackett Saga: Volume 1-5 1 copia
Hirtetyn naisen joki 1 copia
La terra dei Sackett 1 copia
Paperback 1 copia
Beyond the Chaparral 1 copia
Trail to Pie Town 1 copia
A Husband for Janey 1 copia
Louis L'Amour - Five Softbound Books: Buckskin Run, Bendigo Shafter, Valley of the Sun, West From Singapore, and Son of… (1981) 1 copia
Louis L'Amour Collection - Set of 12 Volumes - Leatherette Hardcover Books (The Louis L'Amour Collection) (1981) 1 copia
The Passing of Rope Nose 1 copia
The Louis Lamour Collection (8 Volumes) Leather Bound Edition (Volumes Included: The Key-Lock Man, West of Dodge,… (1984) 1 copia
To Make a Stand 1 copia
The Man from the Bitter Sands 1 copia
Let the Cards Decide 1 copia
Riches Beyond Dreams 1 copia
Here Ends the Trail 1 copia
Last Day in Town 1 copia
Roundup in Texas 1 copia
Man nennt mich Hondo / Allein in der Wildnis / Sein Name war Flint. 3 Romane in einem Band. (1991) 1 copia
The Sackett Stories 1 copia
The Ghost Fighter 1 copia
Wings over Brazil 1 copia
The Vanished Blonde 1 copia
By the Waters of San Tadeo 1 copia
Noi Sackett 1 copia
Meeting at Falmouth 1 copia
Sideshow Champion 1 copia
Crash Landing 1 copia
Under the Hanging Wall 1 copia
Coast Patrol 1 copia
The Gravel Pit 1 copia
The Money Punch 1 copia
Friend of a Hero 1 copia
Poklad 1 copia
The Man from the Dead Hills 1 copia
Louis L'Amour Westerns - Trail to Pie Town, Mistakes Can Kill You, Black Rock Coffin Makers (2000) 1 copia
Sackettien perintö 1 copia
Piritetty karjatila 1 copia
The Last Frontier 1 copia
The Cactus Kid 1 copia
Opere correlate
A Century of Great Western Stories-An Anthology of Western Fiction (2000) — Collaboratore — 104 copie
Catlow [1971 film] — Original book — 3 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- LaMoore, Louis Dearborn (birth name)
Burns, Tex
Mayo, Jim - Data di nascita
- 1908-03-22
- Data di morte
- 1988-06-10
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Jamestown, North Dakota, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- cancer (lung)
- Luogo di residenza
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Istruzione
- self-educated
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
gold miner
merchant seaman
professional boxer - Relazioni
- L'Amour, Angelique (daughter)
L'Amour, Beau (son) - Organizzazioni
- WPA Writers Project
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1984)
Congressional Gold Medal (1982)
Theodore Roosevelt Roughrider Award (1972)
Saddleman Award (1981)
National Book Award (1979) - Breve biografia
- Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films.
Louis Dearborn L'Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1908. He left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs. 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.
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Recensioni
Tennessee to Sante Fe, New Mexico. Orrin and Tyrell bring Ma and 2 younger brothers out to live with them on the ranch they start.
Tell Sackett is helping someone get to LA from AZ by crossing the Mojave Desert.
Another time, another place. A straightforward story of danger, death, and redemption, with maybe the chance of love in the end.
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- Opere
- 807
- Opere correlate
- 11
- Utenti
- 83,457
- Popolarità
- #139
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 1,034
- ISBN
- 3,293
- Lingue
- 21
- Preferito da
- 103
Sackett picks up the story of Falcon's oldest son, William Tell, riding west to join his brothers and find his place in the West. In the 1860s, gold was being discovered everywhere, and Tell—as he was called—leaves Ty and Orrin to get his share with his friend, Cap Rountree. By mistake, Tell happens upon a rich vein of gold in a secluded cave high up in the Tetons. There are plenty of gunfights and killing, as there certainly were in the real Wild West. While fighting for his place in the rugged country of Montana, Tell and his wife, Ange, settled in a small town in the hills.
Lando—documents the turbulent life of Orlando Sackett, Falcon's youngest son, who grows up in Tennessee alone after being abandoned at twelve by his father, whom his mother's brothers were hunting. In the 1860s, hundreds were heading west in search of gold. At seventeen, Lando decides to join them, hoping to find his fortune and leave old enemies behind him, but his path takes him in an unexpected direction when he runs into some of his father's old friends. They set off together in search of a fortune in gold doubloons rumored to be aboard a sunken Spanish ship off the coast of Mexico. His journey is frequently hindered by violent men looking to get rich quickly by stealing gold. Shoot first and ask questions later was the name of the game. After finally finding his father, Falcon, is alive, corrupt Commandant Herrara captures Lando and throws him into a Mexican jail where he serves six years doing hard labor. After a daring escape aided by Captain McNelly and a band of Texas Rangers, Lando settles scores with some old enemies. Then, Lando and his friend, Tinker, continue west.
The fourth book, Mojave Crossing, follows William Tell Sackett's journey through the Mojave Desert to sell his gold in Los Angeles. In 1868, this area was somewhat settled but still inhabited by rugged men, while lawmen were few and far between. Tell makes new enemies and friends. He also runs into a distant relative, Nolan Sackett, of the Clinch Mountain branch. Nolan becomes a friend and ally just as Tell is about to be murdered by a ruthless bunch of bandits.… (altro)