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With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour
is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific
and popular American authors in history. Though he met
with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form
that put him on the map was the short story. Now this
great writer--who the Wall Street Journal recently compared
with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson--will receive
his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks off
a series that will, when complete, anthologize all of
L'Amour's short fiction, volume by handsome volume.
Here, are selected stories from Volume One, a treasure-trove
of frontier tales for his millions of fans and for those
who have yet to discover L'Amour's thrilling prose--and
his vital role in capturing the spirit of the Old West
for generations to come.
Listeners are brought face-to-face with heroism in a
most unexpected place in The Gift of Cochise,
as a single mother faces down an Apache war party. Desperate
Men follows four escaped convicts running a gauntlet
of double and triple crosses in a hunt for gold that will
leave only one of them alive. In The Skull and the
Arrow, a beaten man finds the strength to confront
his enemies in the discovery of a simple arrowhead. In
Marshal of Canyon Gap, a new face in town
means nothing but trouble to Marshal McLane - not only
for Canyon Gap, but for the secret he's kept for too many
years. The Defense of Sentinel is left to
a whiskey soaked drunk who awakes to find himself the
only hope for a town surrounded by marauders. Let
the Cards Decide is the story of a woman whose
future hangs on the outcome of a card game, and the adventure
continues with Home is the Hunter, the tale
of a hardened gunfighter and the little girl who changes
his life.
3.5 hours on 3 CD's or Cassettes
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The
Collected Short Stories 
