I've just finished reading the novel Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor, about the infamous Civil War prison for Union soldiers. Best book I've read in a while, and I've read some good ones.
You?

chris4

Ken Follett 'Pillars of the Earth' enjoying picking the editing and reconstruction for the TV Mini Series.
This just popped up on my FB feed. well worth reading about how LL can mold a young mind.

https://rabbitroom.com/2019/05/louis-lamour-and-the-moral-imagination/?fbclid=IwAR1Pbaz4r8Q_lR91f4wEVcOudGsnhxkSbCgatwSJLPsHpFVQyetiMMuvH4E

Les
Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?


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Les
The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.



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BIG JACK by J.D. Robb

"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN

Just finished 'Lonely On The Mountain' for my fourth read. I just began to notch my books, so I know what re-read I'm on, just like a gunfighter notches his pistol for a kill. After that, which is increasingly becoming my favorite novel. I'm on my third read on that one.
Putting L'Amour aside for awhile, I started reading 'The Pumpkin Rollers' by Elmer Kelton. Great book, but yet to find why they called it 'The Pumpkin Rollers', but I'm sure its in there. I'm only on chapter three and loving it. Tennessee Dave recommended this one and I'm grateful for that, since I have a hard time putting it down, since its so good....
Since I collect books, been looking for 'Hombre' by Elmer Kelton, the hard cover. Hard one to find, but that makes it better, since I enjoy the hunt....

Blainemcqueen

Remember what Louis says about putting notches on guns :7

Some said he had killed eighteen men. The cattle buyer in Dodge claimed the actual figure was twenty-nine. But all of it was talk and nobody knew for sure. Not being a tinhorn, Kilkenny filed no notches on his guns.
Kilkenny, 1974

It was nothing to be proud of. Nobody but a tinhorn ever scratched notches on his gun, and I never would.
To Tame A Land, 1940

Les
Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?


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Les
The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.



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I still have some of the books my mother Signed her name, along with the year she read the. They run from the nineties to 2000s. Then her eyes went bad.

Tennessee Dave

"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God"
Author unknown

I remember 'To tame a land very well... I do it just to keep track of my reading status, I would loved to have lived in a time when Louis walked those trails, just for a little bit (maybe an hour or so)…..Lol

Blainemcqueen

It was surprising to find that a lot of the places Louis wrote about in Flint are still there. The town of Mora, for example, has changed considerably, but smack in the middle, the old buildings still stand and appear occupied. Some of the buildings in the town where Flint got off the train near Acoma are still standing. On my first trip surprise greeted me when I recognized where that spot was...and where Flint had spent the night. The area remains untouched by time for the most part...or did the last time I was there. The Acoma have lived there for a thousand years and probably more. The people there have always been friendly toward strangers...a very attractive people. Their dress is both functional and beautiful.

"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN

..... and I can just see LL'S brain churning away with his fingers tap, tap taping the typewriter keys seeing the same as you, just a whisker in time difference.
A period in historical writing.

Tennessee Dave

"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God"
Author unknown

I'm not proud of being a tinhorn, but ya' gotta' have a little drama, even if its just a little paragon and just being cool, but maybe a little reckless in gun fights....Lol

Blainemcqueen

Ah, yes, The Pumpkin Rollers will forever be a perennial favorite of mine.
The Man Who Rode Midnight is another favorite of mine by Melton, although a little different from TPR.
KELTON was like Beau, not too tall.in the saddle to e-mail you back.

Tennessee Dave

"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God"
Author unknown

Love his style of reading, unlike so many others....This book grabbed me by the shirt tails as soon as I started reading it...God Bless Your Mother and always remember those little notes...

Blainemcqueen

I also enjoy Kelton's books. I wish I could remember which title had this great line.

During a time setting up a defense from an attack a character was described as a good man but not very good with a rifle. It was said that "he couldn't hit the side of a barn from the inside with all the doors closed."

Ouch...




"In case of snakebite always
carry a small flagon of
whiskey, and furthermore
always carry a small snake."
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"In case of snakebite always
carry a small flagon of
whiskey, and furthermore
always carry a small snake."
W.C. Fields

I'll check it out. Hope I run across it first. Two more Kelton novels to read before I get back to L'Amour…

Blainemcqueen

'The Rebels' by Elmer Kelton, a three book novel on a multi-generational family which brings to mind the Sackett family saga...
Should be interesting...
My next read, then back to L'Amour and 'The Empty Land'...

Blainemcqueen

While browsing in a book store, my wandering eye, caught a glimpse of a book I had never seen before...For the price of $1.00, I couldn't pass it up.
LOUIS L'AMOUR, his life and trails..An unauthorized biography. By biographer Robert Phillips...

Blainemcqueen

As I said on FB $1.00 well spent.

Les
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Les
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Wasn't "Hombre" by Elmore Leonard?

I love the Elmer Kelton books.

The Time It Never Rained
The Good ole Boys
The Smiling County
The Man who rode Midnight
The Day the Cowboys Quit

The Ranger series

The Rebels (3 books written as Tom Early)

and several more.

Kelton is in my top 5 western authors.

LL is 1
Then there is Kelton, Mulford, Wheeler and Short.

Honorable mention Henry, Brand, Curtis, Schaefer, Wister, Guthrie, Dorothy Johnson, Haycox

You know something, you may be right...All this time, I been looking for the wrong author....Thank you Sir, for that...Woe is me, but that's what makes it fun...Ya' learn from your mistakes....

Blainemcqueen

I thought I remembered The Man Who Rode Midnight being Keltons, But man can be wrong so I checked up on it, not just to prove I was right but to keep folks from looking in the wrong authors grouping.
I didn't like MOST of Keltons books, but of those I did like, I liked very much. Years ago I was saying that whereas I liked 95 percent of LLs I Only liked about 20 percent of Keltons.

Tennessee Dave

"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God"
Author unknown

The one I'm reading now is my only Kelton book in my library, although I do have and order for 'The Rebels', a three part story of a family something like the Sacketts in a way....
On a different note, picked up some paperbacks at a flea market, all first edition. I paid four dollars for the lot...
1) The empty land
2) Lonely on the mountain
3) The Daybreakers
4) Louis L'Amour 'His life and trials' An unauthorized biography by Robert Phillips...

Blainemcqueen

The Walking Drum


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Shoot Low, Boys--They're Ridin' Shetland Ponies

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Shoot Low, Boys--They're Ridin' Shetland Ponies

I thought you'd been reading LL for years, Doc, and you're just getting around to The Walking Drum???
Well, you are correct, it is an excellent book. I've read it 3 times myself. Love it.

Tennessee Dave

"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God"
Author unknown

I'm sure its a good one, but a little hard to get into...I have tried twice and put it aside..
May need a sleepless night when its storming to try again...

Blainemcqueen

Working through the last 7 LT Post Script editions, So far, Last of the Breed, Reilly's Luck and now Fallon.
Have just received Bob Boze Bell's three volumes of Classic Gunfights so I have something to give me interludes in my serious reading.

Les
Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?


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Les
The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.



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