L’Amour paints a vivid picture of wide open spaces, a rough young land and equally rough young people who fight for their lives and build new lives in the American West. Lest one think that L’Amour writes only of the rugged super-hero of the west, the cow man who is tough and un-defeated, reading these stories will erase the thoughts.
L’Amour gives us a rich tapestry of finely developed characters. Some are the tough cow hands. Others are settlers who are filled with their own self-doubts and fears. Some even come to the west with fierce demons inside them that need to be defeated. He gives us the good honest men and women as well as the scheming and evil villains. The following tales will excite you and some may even bring on tears.
They are:
The Gift of Cochise
That Man from The Bitter Sands
Desperate Men
From the Listening Hills
Trap of Gold
Riches Beyond Dream
The Lonesome Gods
The Skull and the Arrow
End of the Drive
Caprock Rancher
Dead-End Drift
One Night Stand
Marshal of Canyon Gap
A Husband for Janey
Elisha Comes to Red Horse
The Courting of Griselda
Booty for a Badman
The Defense of Sentinel
The One for the Mojave Kid
A Mule for Santa Fe
War Party
Ironwood Station
Alkali Basin
Stage to Willowspring
Let the Cards Decide
Duffy’s Man
The Strong Shall Live
To Make a Stand
Get Out of Town
One for the Pot
Beyond the Chaparral
Home Is the Hunter
Rustler Roundup
The Moon of the Trees Broken by Snow
Every one of L’Amour’s stories is exciting and compelling. This collection rates an 8 of 10 on the Weaver meter.
