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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 02:04 PM
by blamour | 5 | 909457 |
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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 12:19 AM
by Les Down Under | 3 | 907082 |
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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-15-22 11:50 PM
by john555 | 16 | 897058 |
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Louis L'Amour and the movies
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 05:35 PM
by blamour | 9 | 870577 |
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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 01:04 AM
by Les Down Under | 1 | 848087 |
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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 05:47 PM
by john555 | 6 | 827431 |
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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 03:23 PM
by blamour | 1 | 826476 |
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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 07:16 AM
by epeterd | 2 | 824883 |
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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 03:13 PM
by blamour | 1 | 823041 |
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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 09:10 PM
by john555 | 1 | 821520 |
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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 06:01 PM
by blamour | 3 | 812724 |
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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 10:27 PM
by john555 | 4 | 785619 |
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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 06:27 PM
by blamour | 1 | 780767 |
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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 05:43 PM
by Carcosa2004 | 5 | 777390 |
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Desert flash flood
I just saw this video on reddit. It's only a shallow ditch, so only dangerous to bugs and lizards probably, but it reminded me of the times that LL me | epeterd | Aug-15-21 07:41 AM
by epeterd | 2 | 771613 |
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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-14-21 11:41 PM
by Kent | 6 | 757194 |
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DRAIN THE OCEAN
The cable channel National Geographic has a series called "Drain the Oceans". They just aired a really good episode about the Wild West. They had a | john555 | Aug-12-21 05:53 AM
by epeterd | 3 | 752878 |
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LL
Reread several LL books in the last couple of weeks. Never gets old. Like an old friend.
| NoogaStrong | Oct-03-21 09:15 PM
by NoogaStrong | 3 | 744714 |
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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 08:20 PM
by john555 | 5 | 723270 |
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Crossfire Trail
Just finished reading this yesterday, then just now finished the movie. I've read it at some point in the past, and I've seen the movie too, but it's | epeterd | Oct-01-21 06:15 AM
by epeterd | 2 | 706171 |
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BEAU L'AMOUR
Beau, I'm trying to find out if The Haunted Mesa was ever out in audio book form whether on CD or Cassette. I read it over 25 years ago and most of h | dltrogdon | Sep-28-21 10:21 PM
by Carcosa2004 | 3 | 677072 |
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OWEN CHANTRY - OVER ON THE DRYSIDE
I always thought this character would have been good for more tales.
| john555 | Aug-12-21 05:51 AM
by epeterd | 16 | 663692 |
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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 12:44 AM
by blamour | 1 | 652182 |
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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 04:04 PM
by NoogaStrong | 2 | 647392 |
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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 07:30 PM
by Carcosa2004 | 3 | 647139 |
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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 12:17 AM
by Les Down Under | 0 | 618089 |
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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 06:28 PM
by blamour | 1 | 603867 |
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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 09:13 PM
by Mike Shaffer | 3 | 599760 |
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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-22-21 11:49 PM
by NoogaStrong | 10 | 599143 |
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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 04:08 PM
by TOM | 2 | 502669 |
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