How do you start a story in the first two pages to get a reader hooked and turning the next pages to find out what is going to happen and how the main character is going to survive and prosper. Louis L’Amour had that type of skill down pat. The main character Tatton Chantry is [...]
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Book Review: Showdown on the Tumbling T
August 25, 2010 – 1:10 am
The story begins with the main character Wat Bell, initially known as the Papago Kid, being where he was told to be, at the Tin Cup ranch. Things were not too healthy there as he shows up he sees a man get shot dead. He tries to even out the odds with a few rifle [...]
Book Review: The Warrior’s Path
August 18, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a story in the Sackett family series giving the reader a brief initial looking into the early manhood of Kin Sackett the first-born son of Barnabas Sackett. Kin is the oldest and he and Yance the second son are in the west collecting furs and tending to a corn crop that Kin has [...]
Book Review: The Man From The Broken Hills
August 11, 2010 – 1:10 am
It never ceases to amaze me how a storywriter of the caliber of Louis L’Amour was able to create stories of the west with so much realism and western lore to immediately get the reader locked into the story and drives the reader to the conclusion of it. In this book the main character Milo [...]
Book Review: The Packsaddle Affair
August 4, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is another short story written by Louis L’Amour about the ways and customs of the west, were they reflected the chivalry exhibited in the writing of Sir Walter Scott. This story is a snapshot of a day or two in the life of Red Clanahan, one of those western characters that Louis L’Amour is [...]
Movie Review: Hondo
July 31, 2010 – 1:10 am
Here we have a special movie with the story line written by Louis L’Amour and the main character played by John Wayne. What is not to like about this movie. The beginning scene is Hondo Lane walking in from the desert with his saddlebags in one hand and his rifle in the other. How much [...]
Book Review: Jubal Sakett
July 28, 2010 – 1:10 am
Reading Together: Jubal Sackett by Louis L’Amour My husband, Jay, and I read this book together – he with his eyes and I with my ears. Jay is a Louis L’Amour fan. He owns all 105 of the books and has read all of them at least three or four times. He’s even met the [...]
Book Review: No Rest for the Wicked
July 14, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a short story by Louis L’Amour in his collection titled The Outlaws of Mesquite. This story puts a town marshal against the town when he arrests the man that is pushing dream of lost gold and missing towns. The scam was simple but Lou the town marshal had already seen and heard all [...]
Book Review: The Drift
July 7, 2010 – 1:10 am
This Louis L’Amour short story out of the book The Outlaws of Mesquite is a tale of the tenacity of Johnny Garrett, which was also fueled by the desire to be close to Mary Jane Gavin. His first problem was that he was unable to keep his thoughts to himself and when he shared them [...]
Book Review: The Ghost Maker
June 30, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a short story from the pen of Louis L’Amour from his collection in The Outlaws of Mesquite. This story confronts a mans fear and the craziness of a wild horse. Was it really fear or common since? As a boy this top rider had seen this horse kill a perfectly good saddle horse [...]
