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Summary: "In this second volume, Beau L'Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father's notes, journal entries, and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written as well as speculating about the ways they might have ended. These selections include the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAML'Amour, Louis
Summary: Filled with action, adventure, mystery, and historical detail, the Sackett saga is an unforgettable achievement by one of America's greatest storytellers. In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of this great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Kindred spirits on a restless quest... Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Western L'Amour 1985L'Amour, Louis
Summary: "Louis L'Amour's long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Fate is a ship. As the shadows of World War II gather, the SS Lichenfield is westbound across the Pacific carrying eighty thousand barrels of highly explosive naphtha. The cargo alone makes the journey perilous, with the entire crew aware that one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAML'Amour, Louis
Summary: "Pronto Pike had known plenty of trouble, but none like that winter on Hanging Woman Creek. He and his partner Eddie Holt - as good a man with a rifle as ever rode - were making things tough for the rustlers lifting Bar J cattle. Then Ann Farley came to stay with her brother and vigilantes cut them down. Pronto and Eddie knew they had real trouble because men who will shoot at a woman will do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult PBK, Call number: PBK Western L'Amour 1964L'Amour, Louis
Summary: A U.S. Air Force major's experimental aircraft is forced down over the Bering Sea by Russians. He escapes from the Soviet prison camp where he is held and then must cross the Siberian wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAML'Amour, Louis
Summary: "A collection of Louis L'Amour's never-before-seen fragments, film/TV scripts and treatments, notes, short stories, and advice to other writers, compiled and annotated by his son, that confirms his place at the very top of the pantheon of American writers. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at how Louis wrote the short stories, novels, literary and motion picture treatments, notes, and outlines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: WESTERN LAML'Amour, Louis
Summary: This is the first half of the story of Barnabus, the patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his migration to North America in 1600. His saga begins when he discovers a purse of gold coins in the mud of Devil's Dyke in Finland. On the run from English authorities, he meets and marries Abigail Tempany, the daughter of a sea captain. Nick Bardle, the master of a merchant vessel, the Jolly Jack, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1988
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Summary: "Louis L'Amour's long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Fate is a ship. As the shadows of World War II gather, the SS Lichenfield is westbound across the Pacific carrying eighty thousand barrels of highly explosive naphtha. The cargo alone makes the journey perilous, with the entire crew aware that one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LAML'Amour, Louis
Summary: Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly -- a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe -- until the day Reilly's luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. But it wasn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011