This is a classic western story written by Louis L’Amour telling the tale of a college educated man, his wife and son as they push out into the west trying to set up a homestead around Cherry Creek. Colorado (Denver). In the opening of the story Duncan McKaskel has self-doubts about their move west. It [...]
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Book Review: Louis L’Amour’s Fallon
June 10, 2009 – 1:00 am
This is a western story of a drifter, con-man and gambler who is surviving, but just barely. In spite of himself, he helps create a new town, Red Horse. The new town will rise from the fraud infested desert ghost town of Buell’s Bluff, which was designed to swindle miners and eastern businessmen. Macon Fallon [...]
Passin’ Through by Louis L’Amour
May 26, 2009 – 1:00 am
Book Review : Passin’ Through I have read Louis L’Amour westerns for many years, re-reading them as I felt the need for a western fix. An anonymous man is on the move, alone as usual. He befriends two unexpected road travelers and moves on. His next stop is at a town where a town bully [...]
