Fun Read

This is a collection of seven short stories that Louis L’Amour published in Western Magazines in the 1930s and 40s. The first story is “The Black Rock Coffin Marker” about a fight to acquire the XY ranch. The second story is called “Grub Line Rider”: Kim Sartain is a drifter and a cattleman Jim Targ forbids Kim to ride across an unclaimed stretch of meadow land. Kim gets mad and decides to homestead the stretch of land. “Desert Death Song” is the third story. It is a sort of love story. The forth is called “One Last Gun Notch” this one is a gunfighter vs. land hog. The fifth story “Ride, You Tonto Raiders” is about Matt Sabre who kills a man in a fair gun fight and the dying man asks him to take five thousand dollars to his wife and family on his family ranch. The sixth story is called “War Party” about a boy, a frontier woman and a strong male character in a story of life on the frontier. The last story is “Law of the Desert Born” about Shad Morone a gunman. This is one is from the book by the same name.

The audiobook was published in Sept 2014. The stories are well written and fast paced with good character development in spite of them being short stories. This audiobook makes an easy, fast, enjoyable read. Stefan Rudnicki narrates the book.

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Earlier works. Very formulaic.

Like many of Louis l’Amour‘s works. these mostly follow a formula. A tall, extraordinarily fast, gunslinging hero saves a woman from the depredations of ruthless land grabbing range warriors.

This is the second series I’ve jumped into in the last two months, and it seems that the range of war motif is pretty popular with L’Amour.

And, of course, the gunslinging hero falls in love with the beautiful woman and gets her in the end. Of course, she has many good qualities, such as independence and feistiness. Just what you would want in a woman who would bear your children.

I understand he wrote most of these in the 1940s and early 1950s. His later works weren’t so corny.

But for all that, I still enjoyed them.

I have to note that the voice actor repeated one sentence twice in a row. That was a fault in editing. He attempted to give a different inflection with the second sentence, and one didn’t get taken out.

Phenomenal

I’ve been a fan of Louis L’Amour books since I was a kid. My name came from one of his books.

short western gems

These short stories are absolute gems of western storytelling and are worthy of note and acclaim!

Entertaining Stories

Loved these stores of courage, men doing the right thing no matter the cost or effort required.

A Collection of Stories

Some of these stories, such as 'Ride, You Tonto Raiders,' are available in other collections.

5 stars

Louis Lamour is always good. He never fails. I love his short stories. my favorite western writer.

Enjoyable Listening and I do not mind telling you

Louis L'Amour short stories are very enjoyable and the performance given by Stefan Rudnick just brought the stories to life.

Excellent handful of tales

Very good stories. Especially liked the tale of the hanging party. Enjoyable performance from the voice actors.

Many short stories some on other books good tales

All adventurous stories in desert areas with riders finding their ways through areas both north and south of the border. Gives excellent charcterizations in voices and plays out well in audio adaptation.