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 Happy New Year
Greetings everyone. I wish you all a wonderful 2023.
I wish we had more activity on this board. I know it will never be like the old days, but someti | milkbandit | Jan-10-23 02:21 PM
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Wishing all a Very Happy Holiday!
Hope your Christmas' were great and your New Year is as well!
Paul
|  Paul | Jan-01-23 12:48 AM
by Les Down Under | 1 | 60698 |
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RECENT READS
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 | john555 | Dec-16-22 06:55 PM
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The Proving Trail
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 | kentd | Dec-15-22 08:01 PM
by kentd | 0 | 96642 |
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Which L'Amour novel is this quote f
-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 | ghulse | Dec-03-22 07:26 PM
by Les Down Under | 2 | 168322 |
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Beau: Biography Project
Just a quick question to see how the LL Biography project is coming along? Any idea on when it may be published? Thanks.
| TOM | Nov-07-22 05:08 PM
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Kid Rodelo
LL can write about the desert and make you thirsty. Forgot how good this book was.
| NoogaStrong | Nov-02-22 07:28 PM
by blamour | 1 | 361175 |
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Question for Beau
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 | NoogaStrong | Nov-02-22 07:27 PM
by blamour | 1 | 535778 |
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Rustler Roundup
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 | epeterd | Nov-02-22 07:01 PM
by blamour | 3 | 562229 |
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Oddity in FBtW
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.
| epeterd | Oct-05-22 06:47 PM
by john555 | 6 | 574809 |
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Elisha Comes to Red Horse
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 | epeterd | Aug-31-22 08:16 AM
by epeterd | 2 | 577578 |
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MOON OF THE TREES BROKEN BY SNOW...
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 | Carcosa2004 | Aug-06-22 04:23 PM
by blamour | 1 | 579599 |
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Original paperback art...for Beau!
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 | Carcosa2004 | Aug-06-22 04:13 PM
by blamour | 1 | 574468 |
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SAMUEL H. WALKER
Re-reading "The First Fast Draw". LL has Cullen mention Samuel Colt inventing the "first successful repeating pistol". LL puts it that Colt designed | john555 | Jul-29-22 11:27 PM
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The Haunted Mesa and Albert Einstei
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 | CougarSFC90 | Jun-20-22 08:30 PM
by Carcosa2004 | 3 | 454162 |
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Taggart
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 | epeterd | Jun-20-22 06:43 PM
by Carcosa2004 | 5 | 534605 |
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Hopalong Cassidy
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 | john555 | Jun-04-22 10:10 PM
by john555 | 1 | 576619 |
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Sky Ring Water...Beau.
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 | Carcosa2004 | May-16-22 12:50 AM
by john555 | 16 | 608256 |
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The Burning Hills
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 | john555 | May-07-22 05:04 PM
by NoogaStrong | 2 | 456075 |
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Jamestown Revival
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 | Les Down Under | Feb-01-22 01:17 AM
by Les Down Under | 0 | 419285 |
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Tennessee Dave
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 | NoogaStrong | Dec-23-21 12:49 AM
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JAMESTOWN ND
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 | Mike Shaffer | Dec-12-21 10:18 PM
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Hello the fire!
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 | Mike Shaffer | Dec-07-21 10:13 PM
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Thank you Louis, and thank you Beau
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 | Carcosa2004 | Dec-02-21 01:44 AM
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It's been a helluva ride
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 | milkbandit | Nov-03-21 09:20 PM
by john555 | 5 | 453379 |
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Bored
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 | DocKaty | Oct-22-21 02:04 AM
by Les Down Under | 1 | 535703 |
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 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 | Carcosa2004 | Oct-16-21 06:35 PM
by blamour | 9 | 538776 |
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Louis' list of books to read
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. ( | Kent | Oct-15-21 12:41 AM
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Judge Charles P Moore
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 | moore_te | Oct-07-21 01:19 AM
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Publishing and branding...Beau!
Having bought LL books you going on forever now, I've always been curious about publisher decisions and cover styles, etc over the years.
About the l | Carcosa2004 | Oct-04-21 03:04 PM
by blamour | 5 | 539312 |
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