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16 series · 223 books| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | The Daybreakers | 1960 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Sackett | 1961 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Lando | 1962 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Mojave Crossing | 1964 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | The Sackett Brand | 1965 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Mustang Man | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | The Sky-Liners | 1967 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | The Lonely Men | 1969 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | Galloway | 1970 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | Ride the Dark Trail | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Treasure Mountain | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | War Party | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Sackett's Land | 1974 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | To the Far Blue Mountains | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | Lonely on the Mountain | 1980 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | Ride the River | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 17 | The Warrior's Path | 1984 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 18 | Jubal Sackett | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 19 | End of the Drive | 1997 | Buy from Amazon |
The Sacketts SeriesChronological
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Daybreakers | 1960 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Sackett | 1961 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Lando | 1962 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Mojave Crossing | 1964 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | The Sackett Brand | 1965 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Mustang Man | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | The Sky-Liners | 1967 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | The Lonely Men | 1969 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | Galloway | 1970 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | Treasure Mountain | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Ride the Dark Trail | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | War Party | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Sackett's Land | 1974 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | To the Far Blue Mountains | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | Lonely on the Mountain | 1980 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | Ride the River | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 17 | The Warrior's Path | 1984 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 18 | Jubal Sackett | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 19 | End of the Drive | 1997 | Buy from Amazon |
Talon Series
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | Rivers West | 1975 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Man from the Broken Hills | 1975 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Milo Talon | 1981 | Buy from Amazon |
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | North to the Rails | 1971 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Fair Blows the Wind | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Ferguson Rifle | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Over on the Dry Side | 1975 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Borden Chantry | 1977 | Buy from Amazon |
Chantry SeriesChronological
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North to the Rails | 1971 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Fair Blows the Wind | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Ferguson Rifle | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Over on the Dry Side | 1975 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Borden Chantry | 1977 | Buy from Amazon |
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kilkenny | 1954 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Rider of Lost Creek | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Mountain Valley War / A Man Called Trent | 1978 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | West of Dodge (Short Story) | 1996 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | A Gun for Kilkenny | 1997 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Monument Rock | 1998 | Buy from Amazon |
Kilkenny SeriesChronological
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kilkenny | 1954 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Rider of Lost Creek | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Mountain Valley War / A Man Called Trent | 1978 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | West of Dodge (Short Story) | 1996 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | A Gun for Kilkenny | 1997 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Monument Rock | 1998 | Buy from Amazon |
Hopalong Cassidy Series
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | The Riders of High Rock | 1951 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Rustlers of West Fork | 1951 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Trail to Seven Pines | 1951 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Trouble Shooter | 1952 | Buy from Amazon |
Hopalong Cassidy SeriesChronological
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | The Rustlers of West Fork | 1951 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Trail to Seven Pines | 1951 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Riders of High Rock | 1951 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Trouble Shooter | 1952 | Buy from Amazon |
Louis L’Amour Other Novels
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | Showdown at Yellow Butte | 1953 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Crossfire Trail | 1954 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Utah Blaine | 1954 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | To Tame a Land | 1955 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Heller with a Gun | 1955 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Guns of the Timberlands | 1955 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | Silver Canyon | 1956 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | The Burning Hills | 1956 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | Sitka | 1957 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | The Tall Stranger | 1957 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Last Stand at Papago Wells | 1957 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | Radigan | 1959 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Flint | 1960 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | High Lonesome | 1962 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | Killoe | 1962 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | Dark Canyon | 1963 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 17 | Kiowa Trail | 1964 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 18 | Hanging Woman Creek | 1964 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 19 | The Key-Lock Man | 1965 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 20 | The High Graders | 1965 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 21 | The Broken Gun | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 22 | Kilrone | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 23 | Matagorda | 1967 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 24 | Chancy | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 25 | Brionne | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 26 | Conagher | 1969 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 27 | Under the Sweetwater Rim | 1971 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 28 | Tucker | 1971 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 29 | The Man from Skibbereen | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 30 | The Quick and the Dead | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 31 | The Californios | 1974 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 32 | Where the Long Grass Blows | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 33 | The Iron Marshal | 1979 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 34 | The Proving Trail | 1979 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 35 | Kiowa Trail and Killoe | 1979 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 36 | The Cherokee Trail | 1982 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 37 | The Shadow Riders | 1982 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 38 | Son of a Wanted Man | 1984 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 39 | Where Buzzards Fly | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 40 | Riding for the Brand | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 41 | South of Deadwood | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 42 | Showdown Trail | 1987 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 43 | Dead End Drift | 1987 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 44 | The Turkeyfeather Riders ( With: Jon Tuska) | 1988 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 45 | Bowdrie Passes Through | 1988 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 46 | The Louis L'Amour Companion | 1992 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 47 | Black Rock: A Western Trio ( With: Jon Tuska) | 1994 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 48 | The Marshal of Sentinel | 1995 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 49 | Louis L'Amour Trail Mix: Volume Two | 2002 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 50 | The Sixth Shotgun | 2003 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 51 | The First Fast Draw | 2003 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 52 | Big Medicine | 2008 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 53 | Dawn Riders | 2010 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 54 | The Black Rock Coffin Makers | 2013 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 55 | Riders of the Tumbling K | 2014 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 56 | Showdown | 2017 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 57 | Three Bullets for the Cactus Kid (Short Story) | 2018 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 58 | Bannon (Short Story) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon |
Louis L'Amour Short Story Collections
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | Smoke from This Altar | 1939 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Strong Shall Live | 1980 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Buckskin Run | 1981 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Law of the Desert Born | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Bowdrie's Law | 1984 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Dutchman's Flat | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | Night Over the Solomons | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | The Trail to Crazy Man | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | Man Riding West | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | The Rider of the Ruby Hills | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | West from Singapore | 1987 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | Lonigan | 1988 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Long Ride Home | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | Grub Line Rider | 1990 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | The Outlaws of Mesquite | 1990 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | West of the Tularosa | 1992 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 17 | Valley of the Sun | 1995 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 18 | West of Dodge Collection | 1996 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 19 | Mistakes Can Kill You | 1997 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 20 | Monument Rock | 1998 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 21 | Beyond the Great Snow Mountains | 1999 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 22 | May There Be a Road | 2001 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 23 | With These Hands | 2002 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 24 | From the Listening Hills | 2003 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 25 | The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1 | 2003 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 26 | The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2 | 2004 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 27 | Home in the Valley | 2005 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 28 | The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 3 | 2005 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 29 | The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4 | 2006 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 30 | The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour Volume 5 | 2007 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 31 | Big Country, Volume 1 (Short Story) | 2007 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 32 | The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 6 | 2008 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 33 | The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 7 | 2009 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 34 | The Frontier Stories | 2009 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 35 | The Man from Battle Flat | 2010 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 36 | Glory Riders (Short Story) | 2011 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 37 | The Strong Land | 2012 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 38 | Desert Death-Song | 2013 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 39 | We Shaped the Land with Our Guns | 2014 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 40 | The Chick Bowdrie Short Stories Bundle | 2015 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 41 | Golden Gunmen (Short Story) | 2016 | Buy from Amazon |
Louis L’Amour Non-Fiction Books
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | Frontier | 1984 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Sackett Companion | 1988 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | A Trail of Memories | 1988 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Education of a Wandering Man | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Martin H. M. Schreiber: Last of a Breed (Short Story) | 2017 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures - Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes | 2018 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2 - More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes | 2019 | Buy from Amazon |
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | Hondo | 1953 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Kilkenny | 1954 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Taggart | 1959 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Shalako | 1962 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Kid Rodelo | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | Down the Long Hills | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | The Man Called Noon | 1969 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | The Empty Land | 1969 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | Fallon | 1969 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Reilly's Luck | 1970 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | Callaghen | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Fair Blows the Wind | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | The Ferguson Rifle | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | Over on the Dry Side | 1975 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | Westward the Tide | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 17 | Bendigo Shafter | 1979 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 18 | Yondering | 1980 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 19 | Comstock Lode | 1981 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 20 | The Lonesome Gods | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 21 | The Hills of Homicide | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 22 | Bowdrie | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 23 | The Walking Drum | 1984 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 24 | Passin' Through | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 25 | Last of the Breed | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 26 | The Haunted Mesa | 1987 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 27 | Off the Mangrove Coast | 2000 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 28 | Catlow | 2018 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 29 | No Traveller Returns | 2018 | Buy from Amazon |
Louis L' Amour Short Stories/Novellas
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | Riders of the Dawn (Short Story) | 1951 | Buy from Amazon |
The Golden West Series with Zane Grey, Max Brand, Jon Tuska, Christopher Lane
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | Stories of the Golden West, Book 3 ( By: Zane Grey, Max Brand, Jon Tuska, Christopher Lane) | 2002 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Stories of the Golden West, Book 5 ( By: Grover Gardner, Zane Grey, Max Brand, Jon Tuska) | 2004 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Stories Of The Golden West, Book 7 ( With: Zane Grey, Max Brand) | 2006 | Buy from Amazon |
Louis L'Amour Anthologies
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | Western Movies | 1997 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Best of the American West | 1998 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Best of the American West II | 1999 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Guns of the West | 2002 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | The Golden West | 2003 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | The Untamed West | 2004 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | Lone Star Law | 2005 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | Lost Trails | 2007 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | The Lawless West | 2007 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | Ghost Towns | 2010 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Three Classic Westerns | 2013 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | Trailin' West | 2016 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | G-Men Detective - Fall 1950 | 2022 | Buy from Amazon |
About the Author
Louis Dearborn Lamour (1908-1988) was a prolific American author of Western fiction. Raised in North Dakota, he traveled the country during the Great Depression, inspiring the settings of his novels. His experiences as a fruit picker and gold miner provided vivid details for his authentic Western stories. Lamour published over 100 novels and 25 short story collections, selling over 200 million copies worldwide. Notable works include "Hondo" (1953), "Shalako" (1962), and "The Quick and the Dead" (1973). Lamour received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983 for his contributions to American literature. He was also inducted into the Western Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1965. His books remain highly popular, and many have been adapted into successful films and television shows.