Collected Shorts Series by Louis L'Amour
Collected Shorts #2
Volume Two-Frontier Stories
Louis L'Amour
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2: Frontier StoriesWith 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, in Volume Two, is a treasure-trove of 35 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.CONTENTSTitle PageLaw of the Desert BornThe Town No Guns Could TameMan Riding WestWhat Gold Does to a ManHorse HeavenThe Ghosts of Buckskin RunMcNelly Knows a RangerA Job for a RangerBowdrie Rides a Coyote TrailA Trail to the WestThe Outlaws of Poplar CreekBowdrie Follows a Cold TrailMore Brains Than BulletsThe Road to Casa PiedrasBowdrie Passes ThroughWhere Buzzards FlySouth of DeadwoodToo Tough to BrandCase Closed—No PrisonersThe Killer from the PecosA Ranger Rides to TownRain on the Mountain ForkDown Sonora WayStrange PursuitStrawhouse TrailKeep Travelin’, RiderNo Man’s MesaThe Passing of Rope NoseTrail to Pie TownThe DriftFrom BooklistL'Amour published 90 novels, 27 short story collections, a memoir, 2 nonfiction books, and even a volume of poetry. He is the only novelist to win both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. This is the second volume of his western stories to be released posthumously. The 30 tales collected here reflect the qualities on which L'Amour's timeless popularity is based: memorable protagonists, excellent plots, moral clarity, and plenty of action. About half of these tales feature Chick Bowdrie, a tough-as-nails Texas Ranger with a Holmesian ability to analyze a crime scene. Bowdrie solves a 20-year-old kidnapping, ends a nascent range war, and brings to justice the killers of 14 outlaws slaughtered in an ambush, among other heroics. Beyond the Bowdrie offerings, the standout tale in the collection may be "Law of the Desert Born," in which Shad Marone, on the run for a crime he didn't commit, draws his pursuers into a trap in which only one man will survive. Great reading from a genre master. Wes LukowskyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reservedReview"L'Amour never writes with less than a saddle creak in his sentences and more often with a desert heatwave boiling up from a sunbaked paragraph. A master storyteller.... for reading under the stars."—Kirkus ReviewsFrom the Hardcover edition.
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Collected Shorts #3
Volume Three-Frontier Stories
Louis L'Amour
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories: Volume ThreeThis third volume of Louis L'Amour's collected stories gathers twenty-eight tales of the American West in a keepsake edition sure to delight fans old and new. This collection is a thrilling tribute to the unique spirit of our frontier heritage and proves again the enduring popularity of America's favorite storyteller.The essence of Louis L'Amour's timeless appeal can be found in these unforgettable short stories. Filled with men and women who embody the values we cherish most, L'Amour's frontier tales satisfy our longing for the inspiration provided by those who struggle against the odds with justice, honor, and courage.Open this volume anywhere and you'll discover classic stories you'll never forget: like that of the man who finds a gruesome mystery at the site where a friend's ranch has vanished into thin air, or the one about the soft-spoken young suitor accused of cowardice who proves his courage when the guns are against him…without firing a shot. You'll read stories of ordinary people faced with extraordinary circumstances, from the drifter who poses as a murdered man to solve a mystery to the grizzled recluse who protects a runaway from a brutal "guardian" with the law on his side.Whether following the exploits of a couple taking refuge in a cabin with a group of outlaws who don't intend to let them see sunrise or a man on horseback battling sleeplessness, Indians, and a cold-blooded killer in a life-and-death race through a harsh wilderness, these gripping tales all have one thing in common: you won't be able to put them down until the last page.For lovers of great storytelling everywhere, this exciting collection features the unforgettable characters, heart-stopping drama, and careful attention to historical detail that have entertained readers for decades and earned Louis L'Amour a permanent place among our finest American writers.From the Hardcover edition.contentsRiding for the BrandFour-Card DrawOne Last Gun NotchShandy Takes the HookA Night at Wagon CampSix-Gun StampedeValley of the SunFork Your Own BroncsPardner from the RioThe Guns Talk LoudSquatters on the LonetreeThat Slash Seven KidHome in the ValleyRed Butte ShowdownJackson of HorntownRide or Start Shootin’Regan of the Slash BLoniganLit a Shuck for TexasWest of Dry CreekThere’s Always a TrailWe Shaped the Land with Our GunsTo Hang Me HighWest of DodgeMonument RockA Gun for KilkennyIn Victorio’s CountryThat Packsaddle Affair
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Collected Shorts #4
Volume Four-Adventure Stories
Louis L'Amour
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume Four, The Adventure StoriesThe fourth volume of Louis L’Amour’s collected short stories features more than forty of the master’s greatest adventure tales in a keepsake edition to cherish for generations. This unique collection gathers stories guaranteed to thrill and delight readers again and again, establishing why Louis L’Amour is truly America’s favorite storyteller.Louis L’Amour’s tales of adventure cannot be surpassed for sheer storytelling excitement, and they stand as a testament to his legendary appeal. Here are timeless stories of danger and daring, wanderlust and heroism, filled with ordinary men and women facing often insurmountable challenges with courage, dignity, honor–and heart.Perhaps never before has a single volume contained so many breathtaking thrills: from the down-on-his-luck fortune hunter who risks everything to save a diamond-hunting couple walking straight into a jungle massacre to the mystery “hero” aboard a downed commercial plane dangling six hundred feet above certain doom. You’ll trek across the harsh steppes of East Asia with an American widow and her young son among a fierce nomadic warrior people, and you’ll relive a harrowing tale of survival at sea against thirst, madness, and the elements as a common seaman redefines extraordinary courage as simply “doing his job.”Whether joining an American captain running a cargo ship through Japanese-controlled waters during World War II, only to find his vessel hijacked by traitorous pirates, or marveling at the resourcefulness of a young woman pushed to the limits of endurance as she flees a killer through a primeval forest, these adrenaline-laced tales of mystery, suspense, murder, and survival never let up and will keep your heart pounding long after the final page.From those numbering a few intense pages to novella-length works, the tales in this action-packed anthology bear all the trademarks of the master’s touch–the historical accuracy, memorable characters, and timeless themes that have earned Louis L’Amour his unique place among American writers.From the Hardcover edition.contentsBeyond the Great Snow MountainsMay There Be a RoadBy the Waters of San TadeoMeeting at FalmouthCrash LandingWith These HandsThe Diamond of JeruDeath, WestboundOld Doc YakIt’s Your MoveAnd Proudly DieSurvivalShow Me the Way to Go HomeThicker Than BloodThe AdmiralShanghai, Not Without GesturesThe Man Who Stole ShakespeareThe Dancing KateOff the Mangrove CoastGlorious! Glorious!By the Ruins of “El Walarieh”Where There’s FightingThe Cross and the CandleA Friend of the GeneralAuthor’s TeaEast of GorontaloOn the Road to AmurangFrom Here to BanggaiThe House of QasavaraWell of the Unholy LightWest from SingaporeSouth of SuezVoyage to TobalaiWings Over BrazilPirates of the SkyFlight to the NorthCoast PatrolWings Over KhabarovskFlight to EnbetuThe Goose Flies SouthTailwind to TibetPirates With WingsMission to SiberutDown Paagumene WayNight Over the SolomonsAfterword
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Collected Shorts #5
Volume Five-Frontier Stories
Louis L'Amour
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume FiveLouis L’Amour’s world is built on those dramatic moments when men and women cast their fears, doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge into the unknown–into split-second decisions with life-and-death consequences. Nowhere is that more evident than in this latest collection of stories set on the American frontier. Here L’Amour takes us across a bold, beautifully rendered landscape where strangers may come to trust–or kill–one another; where old scores haunt new lives and the wrong choice leaves unwitting victims. Even at the best of times, this is a world in which every man and woman must be responsible for their own survival.This keepsake volume features unforgettable moments and timeless characters. From fugitives to visionaries, from fortune seekers and drifters seeking a new life to young women trying to build homes in an all too often lawless world, the characters in these pulse-pounding stories are vintage L’Amour. Together in this vivid, rollicking collection of stories, they bring to life the American spirit and confirm Louis L’Amour’s place at the very top of the pantheon of American writers.From the Trade Paperback edition.contentsNo Man’s ManThe Nester and the PiuteDesert Death SongHeritage of HateHattan’s CastleBig ManShowdown on the Tumbling TWaltz Him Around Again, ShadowRowdy Rides to GloryThe Ghost MakerDown the Pogonip TrailThe Romance of Piute BillThat Triggernometry TenderfootThe Sixth ShotgunBarney Takes a HandRain on the HalfmoonWhen a Texan Takes OverBig MedicineGila CrossingThe Marshal of Painted RockRide, You Tonto Raiders!No Trouble for the Cactus KidMedicine GroundLove and the Cactus KidThe Cactus Kid Pays a DebtBattle at Burnt CampThe Cactus Kid
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Collected Shorts #6
Volume Six-Crime Stories
Louis L'Amour
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour Volume 6, The Crime StoriesOne of America’s most beloved storytellers, Louis L’Amour’s vibrant tales of adventure bring the American West to life. Now, in this sixth volume of collected short stories, L’Amour takes us beyond the frontier with thirty-three gripping stories of crime, sports, and the murky world where the two often meet. From suspenseful whodunits to rueful tales of fortunes gained and lost, this remarkable collection will enthrall and entertain L’Amour fans old and new. Traversing a vivid landscape, from sunblasted hills and canyons to the nighttime streets of America’s greatest cities, some of Louis L’Amour’s most compelling fiction was set in his own time—whether in the naked electric glare of boxing rings where men go head-to-head with their dreams and demons in an underworld rife with corruption, or along freight docks where laborers toil to earn just enough to get by, or in the penthouses of the rich and arrogant who calculate the odds of how to get even more. Here are tales of innocents caught in the schemes of criminals, detectives hunting down truths that hide more lies, gamblers and beauties, wiseguys and cops. Here is a world populated by the kinds of people who risk their lives to right a wrong, make a buck, or save a friend. A war veteran makes a journey to visit the man who saved his life in Korea. Instead he uncovers a killing and finds his own heroic cause…. Confronted with an easy chance to steal, an honest man gives in to temptation—and finds himself ensnared in a web of blackmail and violence…. An elderly Hawaiian seafarer is found dead with a hand-carved figure beside his body. Unraveling his murder will mean solving the mystery of a shipwreck—and of the forces that drive some to take fatal chances and others to kill.Brimming with thought-provoking characters and situations—from a man who awakens from unconsciousness to find a fortune in a burning house to a man who meets a killer who is supposed to be dead in a seedy diner—these thrilling, atmospheric stories course with authenticity and bear the mark of a timeless master.From the Hardcover edition.contentsUnguarded MomentPolice BandTime of TerrorThe Gravel PitThe Hand of Kuan-yinSand TrapUnder the Hanging WallToo Tough to KillAnything for a PalFighter’s FiascoSideshow ChampionFighters Should Be HungryThe Money PunchMaking It the Hard WayThe Rounds Don’t MatterFighters Don’t DiveGloves for a TigerThe Ghost FighterDream FighterCorpse on the CarpetWith Death in His CornerDead Man’s TrailThe Street of Lost CorpsesStay Out of My NightmareThe Hills of HomicideI Hate to Tell His WidowCollect from a CorpseThe Unexpected CorpseThe Sucker SwitchA Friend of a HeroThe Vanished BlondeBackfield Battering RamMoran of the Tigers
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