RECENT READS [View all] I've been going back thru the non-Sackett novels. Most recently "Hanging Woman Creek", "Down the Long Hills", "Conagher" and "The Empty Land".
HWC
The Proving Trail [View all] I recently finished reading “The Proving Trail” and very much enjoyed it. However, I was left wondering about what appeared to be some unresolved issu
Which L'Amour novel is this quote f [View all] -Hi all,
I'm 60 and reading Louis L'Amour for the first time—a great little collection of stories called "Riding For The Brand."
I've seen this quot
Beau: Biography Project [View all] Just a quick question to see how the LL Biography project is coming along? Any idea on when it may be published? Thanks.
Question for Beau [View all] Why do the names of fictional characters in a book get changed when the books becomes a movie? For example High Lonesome. Great book. The movie, Four
Rustler Roundup [View all] I'm reading this story in the End of the Drive short story collection. Anybody know if the setting is real? LL seems to give a good bit of detail abou
Oddity in FBtW [View all] Just found something odd when reading Fair Blows the Wind. Page 211 in the LT edition. Tatton is talking to Jacob Binns about investing in shipping.
Elisha Comes to Red Horse [View all] Just read this again. (read it once before a few years ago) Fun little story, a bit humorous. A little different than LL's stories usually were. I can
MOON OF THE TREES BROKEN BY SNOW... [View all] Although I love the two expanded versions, I'm fond of the original issue of YONDERING with its then more seemingly eclectic selection of stories...in
Original paperback art...for Beau! [View all] I know a great deal of original artwork was destroyed in a disastrous flood, but do you know what if any of Bantam's LL vintage cover art (or other we
SAMUEL H. WALKER [View all] Re-reading "The First Fast Draw". LL has Cullen mention Samuel Colt inventing the "first successful repeating pistol". LL puts it that Colt designed
The Haunted Mesa and Albert Einstei [View all] I have a question about a comment made in "THM" by the novel's lead character, Mike Raglan. It's on page 151 of the most recent paperback edition wher
Taggart [View all] Finally finished reading Taggart. Good book. One of the few left that I hadn't read yet. I have read Trap of Gold in the past, and it seems like I hav
Hopalong Cassidy [View all] Just finished the first three of LL's Hopalong novels. And, read Beau's afterword to "The Rustlers of West Fork". Obviously I thought LL's Hopalong
Sky Ring Water...Beau. [View all] So I heard this dropped in the introduction of Lost Treasures Volume 2...and I'm intrigued of course!
Beau, can you give us some insight into this n
The Burning Hills [View all] Pleasant surprise. Picked up TBH and read the opening blurb at the front of the book and thought it didn't sound familiar. So, I started reading it a
Jamestown Revival [View all] I have had these guys' Fireside with Louis L'Amour on my Spotify feed for some time now. I have just received the CD from Paul at the trading post an
Tennessee Dave [View all] Where art thou, TD? By the way, this is OtisTom. I had to change my User ID because I couldn’t get website to agree with the password. Easier this way
JAMESTOWN ND [View all] A few years back a group of guys and a lady I rode motorcycles with rode out to Jamestown ND. They have quite a bit of information, in a tourist cont
Hello the fire! [View all] Had to begin again…forgot my sign in stuff.
Not much new to report…last I heard TD was not feeling too well, and haven’t seen anything else…good or
Thank you Louis, and thank you Beau [View all] This will be a little self-indulgent, but given my recent hospital stint with covid pneumonia. I'm feeling sad, relieved, overwhelmed with nostalgia a
It's been a helluva ride [View all] I started reading his westerns around 1976 and read them all, and reread many. His work has been such a constant thread through my life that, honestly
Bored [View all] Whenever I get bored, I call the Best Western Hotel phone number. When they answer "Best Western" I say "True Grit with John Wayne" and then I hang up
Louis L'Amour and the movies [View all] Generally, LL has fared almost as poorly as Stephen King in translation to film. In many cases, the nuts and bolts of their stories are there, but wha
Louis' list of books to read [View all] In an article now many years ago about LL, a side box listed the books Louis thought were essential for a person to read to educate himself/herself. (
Judge Charles P Moore [View all] My grandfather was a Louis L'Amour fan and Louis put his name in one of his books, but I don't know which one. He is an itinerant judge traveling by w
Publishing and branding...Beau! [View all] Having bought LL books you going on forever now, I've always been curious about publisher decisions and cover styles, etc over the years.
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