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The first graphic novel adaptation of the work of master storyteller Louis L’Amour is a dynamic tale of the Old West that explores the borderlands of loyalty and betrayal with the emotional grittiness of a noir thriller.
 
New Mexico, 1887, a land in the midst of the worst drought anyone can remember. Family histories and loyalties run deep, but when rancher Tom Forrester has his access to the Pecos River cut off by the son of his old partner, he convinces his foreman, Shad Marone, to pay Jud Bowman back for the discourtesy. Yet what starts as a simple act of petty revenge quickly spirals into a cycle of violence that no one can control.
 
Now Marone is on the run, pursued by a sheriff’s posse across a rugged desert landscape. Leading the chase is Jesus Lopez, a half-Mexican, half-Apache with a personal stake in bringing Shad to justice. Newly released from jail, trusted by no one, Lopez swears he’s the only man who can track Marone down. That may be true. But who will live and who will die and what price will be paid in suffering are open questions. Fate and the Jornada del Muerto desert possess a harsh justice that is all their own.
 
With a propulsive script from Beau L’Amour and Kathy Nolan, adapted by Charles Santino and illustrated in bold black-and-white by Thomas Yeates, Law of the Desert Born captures the dust and blood of Louis L’Amour’s West—a world where the difference between a hero and a villain can be as wide as the gap between an act of kindness or brutality or as narrow as a misspoken word.

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“This actually may be the story’s ideal form, since the author’s son Beau came to realize that the core of the tale was the tense relationship between [Marone] and Lopez. . . . The graphic novel version provides room to develop this theme. Yeates’s black-and-white depiction of the rugged landscape and the hard-bitten characters is superb. The result is stunning and richly textured.”Publishers Weekly

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

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Louis L'Amour

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Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

L'Amour's books, primarily Western fiction, remain enormously popular, and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death all 101 of his works were in print (86 novels, 14 short-story collections and one full-length work of nonfiction) and he was considered "one of the world's most popular writers".
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1,284 reviews107 followers
February 26, 2022
Great short stories. 11 in total. Desert Death Song was my favorite and the chase across the alkaline desert. Several similar stories of small ranchers against the bigger ranches.

Trap of Gold I had read before and was a good one to end the series. A man has to know when to walk away.
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281 reviews3 followers
March 13, 2017
When I got into westerns, the first thing I learned is if you want a great read in the genre, turn to Louis L’Amour. LAW OF THE DESERT BORN is proof of that claim.
This book is a collection of short stories by the author, complete with author notes before each story. Each story is filled with the author’s unique view of the West, adventure, humor and authenticity. The stories move quickly and the book can be read in one sitting. The only problem is the book had to end.
So, grab your cowboy hat, your six shooter and jump on in.
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314 reviews114 followers
June 15, 2023
I have to say that my pleasure in reading L'Amour is less in the playout of his stories and much more in reveling in the sense I get that I am in the Old West with its tough people and its rugged beauty. He lingers in his loving descriptions of the land - here he lays out the view of the surroundings in a desolate place:

"... Bodine had lost himself in that broken, rugged country known as Powder Basin. It was a region of some ten square miles backed against an even rougher and uglier patch of waterless desert, but the basin was bad enough itself. Fractured with gorges and humped with fir-clad hogbacks, it was a maze where the juniper region merged into the fir and spruce and where the canyons were liberally overgrown with manzanita. There were at least two cliff dwellings in the area and a ghost mining town of some dozen ramshackle structures, tumbled in and wind worried."

Even though the place is forlorn and dangerous, his beautiful description makes me want to walk in it.

L'Amour loves to let his heroes show the reader tricks of the trail. In one of these 11 stories of the collection titled Law of the Desert Born, published in 1983, a hunted man rubs the barrel of his rifle down with dirt to make sure there is no glint of shining metal that could give his location away. After reading quite a few of L'Amour's books I have an appreciation that he insisted on accuracy in his historic tales; I know that he worked hard through both book study and personal travel all over the west to make that happen.

These are the short stories included in this volume, with a star for those that I particularly enjoyed, and two stars for my very favorites:

Law of the Desert Born: A man has killed a sheriff's brother in self-defense and is on the run from a gang of 8 men. He leads them toward certain death in the dry desert.

* Riding On: A cowboy shoots a man in the dark who he suspects of rustling cattle, and to his horror, he finds that it is his own father. His ranch fires him because they suspect that he and his father were among the cattle rustlers.

The Black Rock Coffin Makers: A man in a saloon is drawn on and kills his assailant. He learns that he himself is a doppelgänger for a wanted man.

** Desert Death Song: A wanted man has a posse of 200 men after him, but he has holed up in a deadly maze of canyons.

** Ride, You Tonto Raiders!: In a familiar L'Amour trope, a young widow realizes that she has the fight of her life coming when bad men in town gang together to take her ranch from her. But a stranger seems bent on helping her defend it.

One Last Gun Notch: A man whose wife was murdered and whose cattle were stolen became a gunslinger to exact revenge, but now, years later, he finds himself hired to do the same kind of evil.

Death Song of the Sombrero: The cowboys on a secluded ranch are told by a stranger that he's killed their boss fair and square in a gunfight, and that they can work for him now or get on down the road.

The Guns Talk Loud: Once again, the story of a man determined to defend a young woman whose ranch is about to be overrun by dishonest men. He finds an ally in a tall stranger who comes along.

*Grub Line Rider: A new man comes into the ranch and announces that he needs 600 head of cattle to start his own outfit up on the ridge, and, by the way, the owner's daughter is welcome to come be his cook! Men at the table nearly choke on their food.

The Marshall of Painted Rock: The Marshall is approached by a beautiful woman who has just arrived in town. She tells him that she is the sister of the man condemned to hang there tomorrow, that she is certain he is innocent, and that she will do anything to get him back to their ailing mother.

Trap of Gold: A miner traces gold in a creek to a leaning rock tower high above. There is a jackpot of gold twisting through quartz at the base of the tower. He is experienced enough to know that removing the gold at the base will almost certainly eventually cause the tower to collapse, crushing him. How much should he take?
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481 reviews57 followers
February 25, 2021
I had not expected this to be a dramatization when I borrowed the audiobook from the library, but it was a very welcome and pleasant surprise.

In fact, I checked it out and listened to it a second time because of how entertaining it was. (I definitely needed a pick me up after I finished a very disappointing non-western audiobook.) I loved the music, the sound effects, and the cast. When I first listened to it, I remember how the music gave me goosebumps. As for the cast, all of them did a spectacular job with their deliveries.

In regards to the actual story, it has become one of my favorites. Just like the previous Louis L’Amour books I read, the characters come across as being real and human. I won’t say much else about them because I don’t want to (possibly) spoil anything for those who haven’t read this yet.

Without a doubt, I know I need to keep an eye out for this at the bookstore because I want to add Law of the Desert Born to my collection. This is one western that I highly and most definitely recommend checking out.
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November 26, 2013
Law of the Desert Born is a graphic novel adaptation of the story by Louis L'Amour. A murder in a western town brings out a posse, but there may be more to the story than there appears.

The story opens with Marone riding into town and shooting a man in what appears to be cold blood. The town sheriff gets a posse together, including a jailed man named Lopez, to track him down. Marone seems to always be one step ahead, but Lopez is a good tracker and has history with Marone, which is told in flashbacks. The story narrows the posse down until it's only a couple people fighting it out in a harsh desert environment.

The graphic novel adaptation is by Charles Santino from a script by Beau L'Amour and Katherine Nolan and is based on the famous short story by Louis L'Amour. The art by Thomas Yeates is black and white and reminds me of old western films from when I was a kid. Included with the graphic novel is a great essay about the story behind the story. It includes the history of the story and the iterations it's had. There is also biographical information about Louis L'Amour. I really enjoyed it.

I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Random House and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for letting me review this fine graphic novel.
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4,038 reviews148 followers
October 8, 2013
I love myself a good western but never seem to read them much anymore. I absolutely loved this atypical form of the classic western. Based on a short story set in the 1880's, the good guy and the bad guy are hard to differentiate. The story starts off with a crime and the Sheriff and his posse going after the men, but quite soon all is not as it seems as the tale is told backwards and justice turns to vengeance. The ending is certainly a wild west ideal of redemption and it leaves the reader to mull over, or debate with others, just who was betrayed the most and who actually was in the wrong. Incredible black and white art with intricately detailed background and emotional close-ups of facial features especially shown in the eyes. A masterpiece both in story and art that complements the mood. Impressive!
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July 24, 2014

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Law of the Desert Born is a beautifully illustrated retelling of one of L'Amour's short stories - based more upon an audio version by L'amour's son Beau and Katherine Nolan. This is the first graphic novelization of a L'Amour novel and the attention to detail really shows.

The story is set in 1887, New Mexico territory. A pervasive drought in an already dry area means there is very little grassland left for cattle. Cattle Rancher Tom Forrester was allowing his cattle to graze on a neighbor's land next to their river - a rare grassy area. But the son of that neighbor (whose father was Forrester's good friend before he died) feels there's not enough grass for his cattle as well. So he puts up a fence and a feud ensues. What starts as a simple act of revenge against the neighbor spirals into two murders. Forrester's cattlemen, Shad Marone and Jesus Lopez, find themselves on opposite sides of a posse. Marone's on the run, Lopez is leading the chase to find him, and the New Mexico countryside is their battleground.

The story changed from the original novel by being more of a study on how no one is wholly good or bad. More back story was given to the characters and quite a few ironies were born subsequently. As a result, the short story is fleshed out and a bit of L'amour's life is interjected as well since the posse chase was based upon a memoir by L'Amour when he traveled the area as a younger man.

To say the artwork is breathtaking would be an understatement. This is one of the most beautifully illustrated black and white graphic novels I've read in a long time. The panels are clean and the artist/authors were judicious in avoiding making the story too wordy. Surprisingly so considering this came from an audio version.

This is a new way to enjoy L'Amour's work. Not a retread of the short story but a new perspective that is interesting, fresh, full of dimension, but still paying homage to the original.

Received as an arc from the publisher.

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Author 4 books8 followers
May 5, 2022
Some true cowboy stories about black hats and white hats and the beautiful women whose property and reputation hang in the balance.

L'Amour is a master of the traditional Western tale and this short story collection shows how quick his draw can be. Each story follows a crack-shot stranger riding into town, forced into a feud and doing right by good, hardworking folk. There's a noticeable formula here but that certainly doesn't take away from L'Amour's clean and engaging style or indeed his impeccable attention to detail. Would-be Western writers could learn a lot from any of these plots.

That being said, I didn't get a great sense of character for most of the protagonists of these adventures. It could even be argued that they aren't as important as the thrilling plots. Also, in the earlier stories of this collection, I did feel there was some overstatement of emotional stakes, which is to say more than one sentence conveying the problem at hand.

Personal nitpicks aside, I'm glad to have read Law of the Desert Born. These moralistic tales have a definite timeless quality to them and a breakneck pace that had me flying through the pages. If you like your Westerns clean-cut and rich in description, I highly recommend Laws of the Desert Born.

Notable Stories

• Riding On – a classic cowboy story of guilt and redemption, with a family murder mystery as its subplot.

• One Last Gun Notch – a simple story about a hired gun changing his mind, and rehoming a clock.

• Trap of Gold – a tale that trades firearms for a pick and gold pan, which is still thrilling regardless.
41 reviews
March 23, 2017
If you thumbed through the Who's Who of Western writers it wouldn't take you long to come to Louis L'Amour. Like Zane Grey, Elmore Leonard, and others, L'Amour taps into the vein of the Old West and weaves multi-layered tales of originality. Case in point, "Law of the Desert Born," which is about (technically) two men on the run - one is a rancher who shot his competition after the competition decided to rob him of cattle and a half-Mexican, half-Apache man named Lopez who was instrumental in helping steal said cattle and is now part of the search team for the rancher on the run. An interesting story overall with amazing graphic sketching/drawing.
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February 21, 2020
There is something deeply satisfying to my soul about these stories of hard life in rugged desert country where sometimes the difference among choices involving living and dying is very slight. A person‘s character matters as much as a persons skill in travel, riding horses, branding cattle, and negotiating with neighbors and enemies. Sometimes I desperately need to escape to this place and time that is so different from the world I inhabit with smart phones, 24 hour television, and social isolation while everyone shouts to be heard on a service called Facebook.
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184 reviews16 followers
October 28, 2021
man, tough, leather-faced and dusty, rides into town. orders a drink. finds trouble. draws his gun. someone lies dead on the floor/ground. man meets woman: soft, beautiful-faced, alone and lonely bc her husband died. man, tough and leathery, saves the day and gets the golden-girl. dragons aren't slain, but the 'bad guys' are. brown indigenous peeps are minor minor-characters. no attempt to recognize the land everybody be fighting over was ours first.

one story flies outside of this air space. man, tough, alone, lone wolf, not afraid of wolves, rides out to the rock to mine gold. chips away. takes risks. takes chances. sweats. sleeps. looks at stars. feels fear. does he get the gold or not? what do you think?
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Author 22 books59 followers
July 29, 2016
If you like Westerns at all, I don't know what you need past "Louis L'Amour." If you don't, I don't know why you'd read this. L'Amour was a master of the western, and this is a good collection of many of his short stories. He wrote with a simple style, but it worked for the stories he was telling.

As with all things L'Amour, recommended for anyone who likes Westerns.
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11 reviews
August 15, 2011
I guess I chose a good Louis L'amour book to read for my first. I enjoyed the short stories in this. I plan on reading more of his books in the future.
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3,634 reviews62 followers
August 26, 2016
Reiterates the constant theme of Passing Through, the drifter who feels morally obligated, or inspired by clear gray eyes on a tall slim redhead, to administer deeply needed justice.

July 1983, L'Amour refused to sign unauthorized editions, unlike Harry Harrison in Galactic Dreams proud autographing illegal underground translations because they trumpeted world-wide reader demand. (Canada copyright 50 years < US 75.) LL included last story to set this frontier law collection equal to fake, and added pre-ambles from personal experience specifying locales, gunslingers, and old bandit tales to surpass. History channel may be reviving one feud, but L'Amour has the goods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant...
http://www.history.com/shows/hatfield...

Dedication reads "To my loyal readers, who will know how to read a brand." Quality here is high: girls with spunk or ignored; not a flaw in spelling, grammar, style, plot, flow, or focus. Magazine submissions from 1942-53, most 1949-51 glow with polishing from originals, reason enough to try for legal version. Internet may facilitate copies, fill when real unavailable limited, encourage demand for honest access.

1 Law of the Desert Born - "Wild dangerous men who went into country where nobody else dared venture.. killed and robbed to live" p31 conquered the West, good and bad". After three days on the run, Shad Marone leads pursuit into dry ashy Sink, where Navajos found hidden spring, but following Apaches perished.


2 Riding On - Reb Farrell shoots distant rustler, finds own honest father Jim dead. Fired by Nathan Embree, father of sweetheart Laura, Reb follows clue of pa's missing rifle. Wounded Lon fingers Joe Banta.


3 The Black Rock Coffin Makers - Jim Gatlin, new Tucker arrival mistaken for Jim Walker, takes on missing farmer's claim against town bigshot Wing Cary. Tall pretty Lisa has rounded slim figure, wide clear gray eyes p68. L'Amour has a strong preference for gray eyes.


4 Desert Death Song - Handsome Nat Bodine framed for holdup murder by rich Pete Daley, jealous over quiet pretty Mary Callahan, has to hide in rugged country.


5 Ride, You Tonto Raiders! - Matt Mathurin (from Latin, saintly) Sabre didn't want to draw in response to drunk foolish Billy Curtin, so agreed to boy's dying request to carry thousands home to wife Jenny, slender "tall for a girl, yet she came no farther than his lips" p168. Big tall L'Amour does like slim tall girls.


6 One Last Gun Notch - Morgan Clyde 35, peaceful until returned with antelope haunch, found Diana "wife and smoking ruins" burned out by big cattlemen. Now a similar bigshot hires him to take out the Hallams. The girl, almost the size and prettiness of Diana, says Vic is out for antelope. "It was all the same" p227.


7 Death Song of the Sombrero - Stretch Magoon 6'5" reckons if rustler "ain't dead, he'll be some sore when he wakes up an' finds all that dirt in his face" p236, sees how Sombrero brand superimposes on Lucky S cattle he guards. But Tinkerville newcomer handsome Paul Hartman convinces lovely red-haired (another L'Amour weakness) owner Kelly "named for her pa's favorite burro" p255 Jarvis 21 to fire the "itinerant range detective" p240.


8 The Guns Talk Loud
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Drifter Sonora, big man with two guns, invites narrator Dan Ketrel, equally big and like-armed, for a drink. Dan remembers latest bandit description "very big man wearin' two guns" p263, as does town boss Harvey Kinsella. So Dan invites him to help pretty Mary Belton by tearing down big cattleman fence starving her cattle.


9 Grub Line Rider - Kim Sartain, stopped by hostile trio riding for big cattleman Jim Targ, decides to buy cattle from Tom Monaghan, especially after sighting "the swell of her bosom" p291 (closest to X-rating L'Amour gets) from his daughter Rusty, slim redhead "apt to be bossy" who will "feed anybody, stray dogs or no-account saddle bums not barred" p287.


10 The Marshal of Painted Rock is world-travelled Matt Sabre back again. Rafe Berry is set to hang, but the real criminal mastermind yet to be uncovered, despite allure of Claire Gallatin, actress masquerading as suspect's sister.
"To clean up a tough town without killing, that takes a man!" p341.

11 Trap of Gold - Weatherton finds rich gold under soft spire that will crush over-eager digging through base. Suspense. Rock creaks and groans warning. Will he quit before the weight above falls down?




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January 8, 2021
I like to read something light but interesting each night before bed. Something predictable enough so it does not keep me awake. Something interesting enough to please me. Something clean enough so it does not give me nightmares. A good choice is always anything written by Louis L'amour and this collection of short stories pleases me greatly. Although some of the stories are long enough to be considered novellas, many are brief enough to be read in one sitting.

I am currently on Ride, You Tonto Raiders. It is typically L'amore with a nice twist at the end. I love his detailed descriptions of the countryside and although the characters are often predictable and a bit shallow, they are good for my purposes and the author has so many of them I will never run out of this peaceful night-cap.
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421 reviews
February 23, 2018
There is something about short stories I really like. They are to the point and quickly describe the characters and setting in a straight forward way. No unnecessary padding, because a good short story writer doesn't need to waste space and time. These stories are classic western tales with the hero of slightly flawed but righteous character overcoming the greedy unscrupulous town or land bully, with cunning guile, sharp fists and fast guns. The classic good over evil with a usually happy ending. Each story a little better than the last. A pleasant and uncomplicated reading voyage. Great tales from a master of the western genre.
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116 reviews
September 30, 2023
I usually don’t read short stories. It always seems to me that when I get into a short story it finishes when I am justing wanting more of the story and the characters. So I was reluctant to read these stories by arguably the best ever western writer. What I soon found was that each story was a gem or perhaps a rich vein of gold. Not only the stories were good but the author injected his own vast experience of the western landscape and history with short preambles that related to the short story. I now realise that Louis L’Amor didn’t just write ABOUT the west, he actually wrote from his lived experiences of the vast west. The west was in him .
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1,614 reviews41 followers
July 21, 2017
Never like short stories but rarely do I not like anything written by Louis L Amour and this was not an exception. 90% of these could have been extended into first rate novels,. the notes by the author before each story were enough to give this 4 stars. For so many years, I thought Zane Grey was the only western writer and even he I did not start reading until after the reading of THE RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE at the age of 50. Then I read Louis L Amours autobiography . Have been hooked ever since. I feel as though I know him , as if he it talking to ME when he writes his notes.
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May 17, 2020
This is a different group of short stories. In between the short stories, he gives a brief historical anecdote . I like this touch. I learn how to pronounce Mogollan, "Muggy Own". Two are probably my favorites. The Grub Line Rider is a story of a man who decides to homestead only when a bully tells him he can't. The other is the Marshall of Painted Rock. He has two stories about Matt Sabre, a man wh has seen the world. I find humor in this story and I love the character.
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904 reviews10 followers
June 25, 2021
A great collection of frontier stories by the master. I've read several collections of L'Amour's shorts and never read a dud. I enjoy how the same characters will show up at times like in this collection the second on the Tumbling K crew had a solo tale, Matt Sabre has a story and the lion hunter Jim Morton shows up in another tale. Very few can write compelling shorts as consistently as Louie L'Amour, he just had the knack.

Highly recommend any L'Amour collection a master short story writer.
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750 reviews7 followers
January 14, 2023
This is a very nice collection of short stories. I am going type the titles so someone wanting to know which are in this collection will be able to find them easily. Law of the Desert Born; The Black Rock Coffin Makers; Desert Death Song; Ride, You Tonto Raiders; One Last Gun Notch; Death Song of the Sombrero; The Guns Talk Loud; Grub Line Rifer; The Marshal of Painter Rock; Trap of Gold. There are also comments from Louis L'Amour after each short story.
Author 1 book62 followers
July 22, 2017
A jailed Indian.
A murdered Judge.
A man on the run.
A Sheriff who tracks em down with the help of the Indian.

I love listening to these Louis L'Amour stories, even better than watching it on television.

If feels like I'm right there on the trail, tracking down a killer, feeling the hot sun, and riding a horse.
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6,073 reviews44 followers
February 28, 2019
“Law of the Desert Born” by Louis L'Amour (Author), Charles Santino, Beau L'Amour (Adapter), Katherine Nolan, Thomas Yeates (Illustrator)

Wonderful adaptation. Simple and yet deeply heartfelt tale. The illustrations really give the story its power.
The lack of closure at the end makes the perfect punctuation mark!
“You have come far – why did you do it?”
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823 reviews
August 11, 2022
Good audiobook dramatisation of this short story by Louis L’Amour. An interesting bit of tracking for revenge, across the deserts, in this short story. I enjoy the way L’Amour can weave a tale from front to back, taking you from present day to the past, that gives you context for the character’s desire for revenge, back to present choices again.
169 reviews
July 26, 2018
Exactly what you have come to expect from this author.

A well written series of stories with plenty of action. The short articles between the other stories are interesting and enjoyable. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good western.
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156 reviews
December 18, 2018
There were a few stories that I think weren't very good. One of them bordering on the main character sexually harassing one of the female characters and then her being smitten with him just because he survived. So while most of the stories were enjoyable, that one really ruined the book for me.
214 reviews1 follower
February 14, 2019
A collection of Louis L'Amour's short stories. None were particularly memorable, but none were particularly bad. A nice addition is the historical notes after each story that are at least tangentially related to preceding story.
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104 reviews2 followers
September 18, 2021
Short stories
Law of the Desert Born
Riding On
The Black Rock Coffin Makers
Desert Death Song
Ride, You Tonto Raiders!
One Last Gun Notch
Death Song of Sombrero
The Guns Talk Loud
Grub Line Rider
The Marshall of Painted Rock
Trap of Gold
With L'Amour commentary before each.
4,796 reviews6 followers
February 27, 2022
Excellent entertaining mystery
A collection of short stories will written. The characters are interesting and will developed. The story lines are interesting and entertaining. I would recommend this novel to anyone who is looking for a quick read. Enjoy reading 2019😀
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2,987 reviews68 followers
February 25, 2023
I really enjoyed these western short stories! Six of the eleven stories I rated 5/5 stars (numbers 1, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11.) Only #7 was 3 stars and 2-5 were 4 stars. Recommended for anyone who enjoys westerns or short stories!
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