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Louis L'Amour (1908–1988)

Auteur van Last of the Breed

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Born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 22, 1908, Louis L'Amour's adventurous life could have been the subject of one of his novels. Striking out on his own in 1923, at age 15, L'Amour began a peripatetic existence, taking whatever jobs were available, from skinning dead cattle to being a sailor. toon meer L'Amour knew early in life that he wanted to be a writer, and the experiences of those years serve as background for some of his later fiction. During the 1930s he published short stories and poetry; his career was interrupted by army service in World War II. After the war, L'Amour began writing for western pulp magazines and wrote several books in the Hopalong Cassidy series using the pseudonym Tex Burns. His first novel, Westward the Tide (1950), serves as an example of L'Amour's frontier fiction, for it is an action-packed adventure story containing the themes and motifs that he uses throughout his career. His fascination with history and his belief in the inevitability of manifest destiny are clear. Also present and typical of L'Amour's work are the strong, capable, beautiful heroine who is immediately attracted to the equally capable hero; a clear moral split between good and evil; reflections on the Native Americans, whose land and ways of life are being disrupted; and a happy ending. Although his work is somewhat less violent than that of other western writers, L'Amour's novels all contain their fair share of action, usually in the form of gunfights or fistfights. L'Amour's major contribution to the western genre is his attempt to create, in 40 or more books, the stories of three families whose histories intertwine as the generations advance across the American frontier. The novels of the Irish Chantry, English Sackett, and French Talon families are L'Amour's most ambitious project, and sadly were left unfinished at his death. Although L'Amour did not complete all of the novels, enough of the series exists to demonstrate his vision. L'Amour's strongest attribute is his ability to tell a compelling story; readers do not mind if the story is similar to one they have read before, for in the telling, L'Amour adds enough small twists of plot and detail to make it worth the reader's while. L'Amour fans also enjoy the bits of information he includes about everything from wilderness survival skills to finding the right person to marry. These lessons give readers the sense that they are getting their money's worth, that there is more to a L'Amour novel than sheer escapism. With over 200 million copies of his books in print worldwide, L'Amour must be counted as one of the most influential writers of westerns in this century. He died from lung cancer on June 10, 1988. (Bowker Author Biography) Louis L'Amour, truly America's favorite storyteller, was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress in honor of his life's work, & was also awarded the Medal of Freedom. There are over 260 million copies of his books in print worldwide. (Publisher Provided) toon minder

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Last of the Breed (1986) 1,722 exemplaren
The Haunted Mesa (1987) 1,380 exemplaren
The Walking Drum (1984) 1,354 exemplaren
Sackett's Land (1974) 1,265 exemplaren
Jubal Sackett (1985) 1,234 exemplaren
Hondo (1953) 1,212 exemplaren
To the Far Blue Mountains (1976) 1,176 exemplaren
Sackett (1961) 1,159 exemplaren
The Daybreakers (1960) 1,150 exemplaren
The Lonesome Gods (1983) 1,117 exemplaren
Education of a Wandering Man (1989) 1,097 exemplaren
The Warrior's Path (1980) 1,068 exemplaren
Ride the River (1983) 1,018 exemplaren
Flint (1960) 950 exemplaren
The Sackett Brand (1965) 925 exemplaren
Lonely on the Mountain (1980) 863 exemplaren
Lando (1962) 847 exemplaren
Mojave Crossing (1964) 817 exemplaren
Dodelijk spoor (1972) 815 exemplaren
The Lonely Men (1969) 813 exemplaren
Comstock Lode (1981) 808 exemplaren
Mustang Man (1966) 803 exemplaren
Treasure Mountain (1972) 796 exemplaren
The Sky-Liners (1967) 779 exemplaren
Bendigo Shafter (1979) 755 exemplaren
Galloway (1970) 745 exemplaren
The Quick and the Dead (1973) 731 exemplaren
Down the Long Hills (1968) 709 exemplaren
Sitka (1957) 703 exemplaren
The Ferguson Rifle (1973) 703 exemplaren
Silver Canyon (1951) 696 exemplaren
The Cherokee Trail (1982) 690 exemplaren
The Iron Marshall (1979) 686 exemplaren
Reilly's Luck (1970) 685 exemplaren
Conagher (1969) 681 exemplaren
Son of a Wanted Man (1984) 672 exemplaren
Fair Blows the Wind (1978) 665 exemplaren
How the West was Won (1962) 662 exemplaren
The Shadow Riders (1982) 656 exemplaren
The Man Called Noon (1970) 654 exemplaren
Passin' Through (1985) 652 exemplaren
The Man from the Broken Hills (1975) 646 exemplaren
Borden Chantry (1977) 639 exemplaren
The Californios (1974) 628 exemplaren
Guns of the Timberlands (1955) 621 exemplaren
Bowdrie (1983) 604 exemplaren
The Rider of Lost Creek (1976) 603 exemplaren
Crossfire Trail (1954) 602 exemplaren
Milo Talon (1981) 600 exemplaren
The Mountain Valley War (1978) 597 exemplaren
Kiowa Trail (1965) 597 exemplaren
Het ongetemde land (1955) 597 exemplaren
Tucker (1971) 596 exemplaren
The First Fast Draw (1959) 592 exemplaren
Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957) 583 exemplaren
High Lonesome (1962) 579 exemplaren
Dark Canyon (1963) 579 exemplaren
The Man from Skibbereen (1973) 579 exemplaren
Begeerlijke buit (1955) 578 exemplaren
Fallon (1963) 575 exemplaren
Utah Blaine (1954) 574 exemplaren
The Tall Stranger (1957) 574 exemplaren
The Proving Trail (1979) 572 exemplaren
The Broken Gun (1966) 571 exemplaren
Westward the Tide (1977) 568 exemplaren
Chancy (1968) 567 exemplaren
The Key-Lock Man (1965) 565 exemplaren
The Empty Land (1969) 564 exemplaren
Showdown at Yellow Butte (1953) 563 exemplaren
The Burning Hills (1956) 562 exemplaren
Under the Sweetwater Rim (1971) 560 exemplaren
The Rustlers of West Fork (1979) 556 exemplaren
Over on the Dry Side (1975) 555 exemplaren
Hanging Woman Creek (1964) 553 exemplaren
Kid rodelo (1966) 540 exemplaren
End of the Drive (1997) 538 exemplaren
Kilkenny (1954) 533 exemplaren
Matagorda (1967) 532 exemplaren
The Outlaws of Mesquite (1990) 531 exemplaren
Brionne (1968) 529 exemplaren
The High Graders (1965) 527 exemplaren
North to the Rails (1971) 526 exemplaren
Shalako (1962) 522 exemplaren
Buckskin Run (1981) 522 exemplaren
Catlow (1962) 519 exemplaren
Callaghen (1972) 519 exemplaren
Rivers West (1975) 517 exemplaren
Bowdrie's Law (1972) 515 exemplaren
Radigan (1958) 514 exemplaren
The Trail to Seven Pines (1951) 508 exemplaren
Where the Long Grass Blows (1976) 497 exemplaren
Taggart (1959) 494 exemplaren
War Party (1975) 491 exemplaren
Kilrone (1966) 490 exemplaren
Beyond the Great Snow Mountains (1999) 483 exemplaren
Long Ride Home (1989) 474 exemplaren
Killoe (1962) 474 exemplaren
The Strong Shall Live (1980) 473 exemplaren
Law of the Desert Born (1946) 465 exemplaren
The Riders of High Rock (1951) 462 exemplaren
Monument Rock (1998) 459 exemplaren
West of Dodge (1996) 454 exemplaren
Off the Mangrove Coast (2000) 454 exemplaren
Dutchman's Flat (1986) 441 exemplaren
May There Be a Road (2001) 428 exemplaren
The Trail to Crazy Man (1986) 428 exemplaren
Lonigan (1988) 422 exemplaren
Riding for the Brand (1986) 422 exemplaren
Yondering (1980) 421 exemplaren
The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986) 416 exemplaren
Valley of the Sun (1995) 414 exemplaren
Trouble Shooter (1951) 412 exemplaren
With These Hands (2002) 404 exemplaren
The Hills of Homicide: Stories (1983) 370 exemplaren
Night Over the Solomons (1986) 326 exemplaren
West from Singapore (1987) 302 exemplaren
From the Listening Hills (2003) 273 exemplaren
Smoke from this Altar (1990) 209 exemplaren
A Man Called Trent (1965) 132 exemplaren
The Sixth Shotgun (1949) 132 exemplaren
Frontier (1984) 130 exemplaren
West of the Tularosa (1986) 115 exemplaren
Grub Line Rider (1951) 100 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volume 1 (1980) 99 exemplaren
Showdown Trail (1986) 95 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volume 3 (1980) 93 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volume 4 (1972) 91 exemplaren
The Shadow Riders [1982 TV movie] (1982) — Novel by — 86 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volume 2 (1980) 78 exemplaren
Big Medicine (1986) 75 exemplaren
No Traveller Returns (2018) 64 exemplaren
Man Riding West (1986) 55 exemplaren
The Lawless West (2007) 52 exemplaren
Trailing West (1800) 52 exemplaren
Mistakes Can Kill You (1986) 49 exemplaren
The Sky-Liners [and] Galloway (1970) 49 exemplaren
Riders of the Dawn (1993) 45 exemplaren
Desert Death-Song (1950) 44 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volume 5 (1985) 42 exemplaren
Radigan [and] North to the Rails (2008) 41 exemplaren
The Golden West (2003) 38 exemplaren
The Sacketts (1979) 37 exemplaren
Showdown on the Hogback (2005) 34 exemplaren
Glory Riders (2011) 33 exemplaren
Shalako/Catlow (2008) 32 exemplaren
Utah Blaine & Silver Canyon (2008) 28 exemplaren
The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon (1985) 27 exemplaren
Booty for a Bad Man (1991) 26 exemplaren
Lone Star Law (2005) 26 exemplaren
The Black Rock Coffin Makers (1950) 23 exemplaren
A Gun for Kilkenny (1986) 23 exemplaren
Lost Trails (2007) — Medewerker — 21 exemplaren
Lit a Shuck for Texas (1986) 20 exemplaren
Rowdy Rides to Glory (1987) 16 exemplaren
McQueen of the Tumbling K (1986) 16 exemplaren
The Turkeyfeather Riders (1986) 13 exemplaren
Sackett's Gold 13 exemplaren
Dead Ringer: A Western Trio (2019) 12 exemplaren
The Strong Land: A Western Sextet (2012) 11 exemplaren
Showdown (2009) 11 exemplaren
One For The Pot (1975) 11 exemplaren
Tales from the Old West (2005) 11 exemplaren
The Kilkenny Series Bundle (2015) 10 exemplaren
Keep Travelin', Rider (1986) 10 exemplaren
Bannon (2017) 9 exemplaren
Medicine Ground (Louis L'Amour) (1995) 8 exemplaren
Ride, You Tonto Raiders! (1949) 8 exemplaren
The Diamond of Jeru (2000) 8 exemplaren
Bowdrie Passes Through (1983) 8 exemplaren
The Killer From the Pecos (1983) 8 exemplaren
Unguarded Moment (1983) 8 exemplaren
Bowdrie Follows a Cold Trail (1983) 8 exemplaren
A Job for a Ranger (1983) 8 exemplaren
Fork Your Own Broncs (1986) 7 exemplaren
L'Amour: a collection (2010) 7 exemplaren
A Trail to the West (1983) 7 exemplaren
No Man's Man (2000) 7 exemplaren
Get Out of Town (Louis L'Amour) (1975) 7 exemplaren
The One for the Mohave Kid (1986) 7 exemplaren
Four-Card Draw (1986) 7 exemplaren
Bill Carey Rides West (1990) 7 exemplaren
Down Sonora Way (1984) 7 exemplaren
Draw Straight: A Western Sextet (2020) 6 exemplaren
The Nester and the Piute (1986) 6 exemplaren
Survival (Louis L'Amour) (1999) 6 exemplaren
No Trouble for the Cactus Kid (1947) 6 exemplaren
His Brother's Debt (1986) 6 exemplaren
The Courting of Griselda (1997) 6 exemplaren
That Triggernometry Tenderfoot (1989) 6 exemplaren
Lännen mies (1979) 5 exemplaren
MCNELLY KNOWS A RANGER (1984) 5 exemplaren
Horse Heaven (1950) 5 exemplaren
Where Buzzards Fly (1984) 5 exemplaren
The Lion Hunter and the Lady (1986) 5 exemplaren
Dead Man's Trail (1983) 5 exemplaren
THE KILKENNY SAGA 5 exemplaren
Louis L'Amour (1994) 5 exemplaren
Strange Pursuit (1984) 4 exemplaren
Death Song of the Sombrero (1947) 4 exemplaren
Trail to Pie Town (1886) 4 exemplaren
L'envoi de l'aigle (1988) 4 exemplaren
The Town No Guns Could Tame (1989) 4 exemplaren
The Guns Talk Loud (1947) 4 exemplaren
The Marshal of Sentinel (1995) 4 exemplaren
One Last Gun Notch (1942) 3 exemplaren
Stay Out of My Nightmare (1983) 3 exemplaren
Dead-end Drift (1987) 3 exemplaren
Sackett Family (1992) 3 exemplaren
Guns of the Timberland [1960 film] (2014) — Novel — 3 exemplaren
Lamour Sackett 4C Box Set (1999) 3 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volumes 1 - 4 (1980) 3 exemplaren
Tales from the Trail (2007) 3 exemplaren
Két szekér arany (1988) 3 exemplaren
Fighter's Fiasco (2002) 3 exemplaren
Louis L'Amour Westerns 1 (CD) (2004) 3 exemplaren
Louis L'Amour - many books (1970) 2 exemplaren
Westerns (2008) 2 exemplaren
In An Old Temple 2 exemplaren
A Honra dos Sackett 2 exemplaren
Louis lamour 2 exemplaren
Le ranch de Clive Chantry (1976) 2 exemplaren
One Night Stand 2 exemplaren
il grande solitario 2 exemplaren
West of the Pilot Range (1995) 2 exemplaren
Shalako. (1969) 2 exemplaren
Projekt Makatozi 2 exemplaren
Louis L'Amour Collection (2006) 2 exemplaren
Apache (1997) 2 exemplaren
Jackson of Horntown (1947) 2 exemplaren
Red Butte Showdown (2003) 2 exemplaren
Trap of Gold (1951) 2 exemplaren
Law of the Desert (2014) 2 exemplaren
Rock Bannon (1980) 2 exemplaren
Old Doc Yak (1992) 2 exemplaren
Collect from a Corpse (1983) 2 exemplaren
The Hand of Kuan-yin 2 exemplaren
Down the Long Hills 2 exemplaren
The Marshal of Painted Rock (1953) 2 exemplaren
More Brains than Bullets (1983) 2 exemplaren
Louis L'Amour's Trio of Tales (2008) 2 exemplaren
A Gift of Cochise 2 exemplaren
Squatters on the Lonetree (1952) 2 exemplaren
Shandy Takes the Hook (1989) 2 exemplaren
Teksasin miehet tulevat (1983) 2 exemplaren
Valley of the Sun (Dramatized) (2009) 2 exemplaren
Hillside Homicide 1 exemplaar
Dead Ringer: A Western Trio (2023) 1 exemplaar
North to the rails 1 exemplaar
l'erede del bandito 1 exemplaar
Riding On (1951) 1 exemplaar
The high graders 1 exemplaar
The Man Called Moon 1 exemplaar
Begrav de döda 1 exemplaar
Hunted Mesa 1 exemplaar
The Far Mountains 1 exemplaar
Bloed op die Water 1 exemplaar
Man Alleen 1 exemplaar
Showdown Trail: A Western Duo (2014) 1 exemplaar
Guldfloden 1 exemplaar
Manden uden fortid 1 exemplaar
Hævnens vej 1 exemplaar
Duel i ørkenen 1 exemplaar
Drama i vildmarken 1 exemplaar
Det blodige opgør 1 exemplaar
Lost Trails 1 exemplaar
Fair blows the wind 1 exemplaar
n Graf vir twee 1 exemplaar
Showdown at Yellow Butte (1972) 1 exemplaar
Sackett # 4 1 exemplaar
Sackett Et Son Mustang (1976) 1 exemplaar
LES LOUPS HURLENT A LA LUNE (1973) 1 exemplaar
Les implacables. (1971) 1 exemplaar
LES DESPÉRADOS (1970) 1 exemplaar
Le Train Du Kansas (1980) 1 exemplaar
Le canon de la folle (1971) 1 exemplaar
La Vallée verte (Western) (1983) 1 exemplaar
La Route du Colorado (Western) (1983) 1 exemplaar
La Longue Chasse (1981) 1 exemplaar
La Cabane perdue (Western) (1983) 1 exemplaar
Utah Blaine / Desert Showdown (1954) 1 exemplaar
A Falsa Pista Os sacketts (1987) 1 exemplaar
Valley of The Sun 1 exemplaar
Monument Rock 1 exemplaar
Bivacco sulla neve 1 exemplaar
Mustang Man 1 exemplaar
Hondo (2023) 1 exemplaar
Down the long hills 1 exemplaar
War Party (1973) 1 exemplaar
The Walking Drum 1 exemplaar
℗I ℗due nemici (1986) 1 exemplaar
Lunga fuga 1 exemplaar
The Cherokee Trail 1 exemplaar
Der ruf des waldes 1 exemplaar
Cowboy Stories 1 exemplaar
Big Country, Volume 3 (2012) 1 exemplaar
The Math Teacher 1 exemplaar
A Trail Gone Cold 1 exemplaar
Jacob Sackett 1 exemplaar
Fighters Should Be Hungry (2000) 1 exemplaar
West is Where the Heart Is (1986) 1 exemplaar
Barney Takes a Hand (1986) 1 exemplaar
Bad Place to Die (1989) 1 exemplaar
The Catus Kid Pays a Debt (1989) 1 exemplaar
To Make a Stand 1 exemplaar
In This Is Beauty 1 exemplaar
Ship Across The Sky 1 exemplaar
McVey 1 exemplaar
Kuiskaavan tuulen laakso (1983) 1 exemplaar
Collectors Series 1 exemplaar
I Came To Create 1 exemplaar
Lines To a Season 1 exemplaar
My Three Friends 1 exemplaar
I Shall Go Back 1 exemplaar
In Protest 1 exemplaar
Question 1 exemplaar
Old Jerry 1 exemplaar
Picture 1 exemplaar
Collection Trail to Pie Town (2008) 1 exemplaar
The Fighting Four 1 exemplaar
The Gladiator 1 exemplaar
Decadence 1 exemplaar
Life 1 exemplaar
Biography in Stone 1 exemplaar
Nocturne 1 exemplaar
A Handful of Stars 1 exemplaar
Winter 1 exemplaar
Secret Pass 1 exemplaar
Banked Fires 1 exemplaar
North Cape 1 exemplaar
To You, Jeannine 1 exemplaar
Time of Terror (2000) 1 exemplaar
The Rounds Don't Matter (2000) 1 exemplaar
The Unexpected Corpse (2000) 1 exemplaar
The Cross and the Candle (2000) 1 exemplaar
Love Out of Season 1 exemplaar
After Tomorrow 1 exemplaar
Yacodhapura 1 exemplaar
Steppe 1 exemplaar
To Giordano Bruno 1 exemplaar
The Weary One 1 exemplaar
Hildebrand 1 exemplaar
Call of the Tropics 1 exemplaar
The Pioneer 1 exemplaar
Without This Land 1 exemplaar
Author's Tea 1 exemplaar
The Admiral 1 exemplaar
Thicker than Blood 1 exemplaar
No Rest for the Wicked (1990) 1 exemplaar
Glorious! 1 exemplaar
The Dancing Kate 1 exemplaar
Wings over Khabarovsk (1986) 1 exemplaar
Duffy's Man 1 exemplaar
The Goose Flies South (1986) 1 exemplaar
Tailwind to Tibet (1986) 1 exemplaar
Pirates with Wings (1986) 1 exemplaar
Mission to Siberut (1986) 1 exemplaar
South of Suez 1 exemplaar
East of Gorontalo 1 exemplaar
That Packsaddle Affair (1990) 1 exemplaar
Hattan's Castle 1 exemplaar
Big Man 1 exemplaar
Let Me Forget 1 exemplaar
Tranquillity 1 exemplaar
Twilight 1 exemplaar
Forest People 1 exemplaar
Winter Winds 1 exemplaar
Let It Snow 1 exemplaar
Then Comes Spring 1 exemplaar
Rain 1 exemplaar
Mutation 1 exemplaar
Rose of Memory 1 exemplaar
Bluff Creek Station 1 exemplaar
The Running Hills 1 exemplaar
The Ghosts of Buckskin Run (1948) 1 exemplaar
What Gold Does to a Man (1961) 1 exemplaar
Alkali Basin 1 exemplaar
The Ghost Maker (1990) 1 exemplaar
I Hate to Tell His Widow (1983) 1 exemplaar
The Drift (1990) 1 exemplaar
The Street of Lost Corpses (1983) 1 exemplaar
With Death in his Corner (1983) 1 exemplaar
Stories of the Western Range (2012) 1 exemplaar
Calloway 1 exemplaar
Home is the Hunter 1 exemplaar
To Hang Me High 1 exemplaar
Fünf Partner (1965) 1 exemplaar
A Man Named Utah 1 exemplaar
Ein Mann wie Kid Rodelo (1966) 1 exemplaar
Das war der wilde Westen (1969) 1 exemplaar
Ironwood Station 1 exemplaar
Here Ends the Trail 1 exemplaar
Last Day in Town 1 exemplaar
West of Dry Creek 1 exemplaar
Four by L'Amour (Dramatized) (1997) 1 exemplaar
Vol. 1 - Westerns (1997) 1 exemplaar
all works 1 exemplaar
Yksinäiset jumalat (1985) 1 exemplaar
Paperback 1 exemplaar
Fuego en las Mantanas (1981) 1 exemplaar
Trail to Pie Town 1 exemplaar
La lunga fuga (1990) 1 exemplaar
Die schnelle Hand (1959) 1 exemplaar
A Husband for Janey 1 exemplaar
Showdown on the Tumbling T (1990) 1 exemplaar
Caprock Rancher (1997) 1 exemplaar
Elisha Comes to Red Horse (1997) 1 exemplaar
Noi Sackett 1 exemplaar
Punainen hevonen (1983) 1 exemplaar
Tie Coloradoon (1983) 1 exemplaar
The Last Frontier 1 exemplaar
When a Texan Takes Over (1995) 1 exemplaar
No Man's Mesa (1995) 1 exemplaar
Gila Crossing (1995) 1 exemplaar
Wilderness Trek (1965) 1 exemplaar
Collection of Louis L'Amour (1980) 1 exemplaar
Sackettien perintö 1 exemplaar
The Sackett Stories 1 exemplaar
That Slash Seven Kid (1995) 1 exemplaar
In Victorio's Country (1995) 1 exemplaar
I'm a Stranger Here 1 exemplaar
THOH (1983) 1 exemplaar
Piritetty karjatila 1 exemplaar
Desperate Men (1997) 1 exemplaar
Roundup in Texas 1 exemplaar
Rustler Roundup (1997) 1 exemplaar
Fortune de feu (1986) — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
The Skull and the Arrow (1997) 1 exemplaar
Friend of a Hero 1 exemplaar
The Cactus Kid 1 exemplaar
The Ghost Fighter 1 exemplaar
Wings over Brazil 1 exemplaar
The Vanished Blonde 1 exemplaar
Meeting at Falmouth 1 exemplaar
Samotář (1995) 1 exemplaar
Psanec (2009) 1 exemplaar
Poklad 1 exemplaar
Osamělý jezdec (2005) 1 exemplaar
Na mušce (2011) 1 exemplaar
Sideshow Champion 1 exemplaar
Crash Landing 1 exemplaar
Coast Patrol 1 exemplaar
The Gravel Pit 1 exemplaar
The Money Punch 1 exemplaar

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
LaMoore, Louis Dearborn (birth name)
Burns, Tex
Mayo, Jim
Geboortedatum
1908-03-22
Overlijdensdatum
1988-06-10
Graflocatie
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California, USA
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Jamestown, North Dakota, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Los Angeles, California, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
cancer (lung)
Woonplaatsen
Los Angeles, California, USA
Opleiding
self-educated
Beroepen
novelist
gold miner
merchant seaman
professional boxer
Relaties
L'Amour, Angelique (daughter)
L'Amour, Beau (son)
Organisaties
WPA Writers Project
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1984)
Congressional Gold Medal (1982)
Theodore Roosevelt Roughrider Award (1972)
Saddleman Award (1981)
National Book Award (1979)
Korte biografie
Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films.

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1908. He left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs. In 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress in honor of his life's work. In 1984 he was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.

Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988.

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An ex-con, a few escaped prisoners, and a mysterious woman head into the desert with gold in their saddlebags, a posse of Yaquis on their trail. Will they survive the harsh desert, or will the lust for riches decimate their ranks before their pursuers can? Good straightforward adventure story.
 
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fuzzi | 4 andere besprekingen | Mar 14, 2024 |
Jean Talon is a shipwright in 1821 America. Originally from Nova Scotia and Quebec, he plans to move to Pittsburgh to take up his career. He learns about a plan by Baron Torville, a megalomaniac, to stage a rebellion in the new territory created by the Louisiana Purchase and build an empire. Talon joins with a ragtag group of misfits to disrupt the plans of the Baron.

His travels are by horse, canoe and keel boat with lengthy explanations on how such a vessel moves up stream against the natural flow of the river. As usual, L'Amour works a lot of history into the narrative including European history to explain where some of the characters came from and why.… (meer)
 
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lamour | 6 andere besprekingen | Feb 25, 2024 |
Mojave Crossing by Louis L’Amour is part of the on-going Sackett Family series. In this outing we once again join Tell Sackett as he packs his hard earned gold to California. He plans to see the gold for a better price than he can get in Arizona. On his return he hopes to buy land and start a cattle ranch. His romance with Ange has been put on hold as she went back east to visit relatives and he hasn’t heard from her.

He meets a lady and agrees to help her in crossing the Mojave Desert and reaching Los Angeles, this good deed opens a can of worms as before he knows it they are being tailed through the desert and shot at. This gang eventually catches them, take the woman and the gold and leave Tell for dead. Of course, Tell vows to find them and retrieve his gold. As he battles a number of bad guys for his gold, he meets up with a cousin, Nolan Sackett, and although he has been working on the wrong side of the law, when push comes to shove, blood is thicker than water.

A quick, action packed read that I thought was a good addition to the series.
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