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Last of the Breed

Last of the Breed

Louis L''Amour

“For sheer adventure L’Amour is in top form.”—Kirkus Reviews Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark.
The Lonely Men

The Lonely Men

Louis L''Amour

In The Lonely Men, Louis L’Amour spins the tale of a man who must elude an Apache trap—only to discover that his greatest enemy might be very close to home.
Ride the Dark Trail

Ride the Dark Trail

Louis L''Amour

RIDE THE DARK TRAIL In Ride the Dark Trail, Louis L’Amour tells the story of Logan Sackett, a cynical drifter who changes his ways to help a widow keep her land.
Louis LÕAmour on Film and Television

Louis LÕAmour on Film and Television

Ed Andreychuk

"This work presents useful information for every known film and television episode drawn from a Louis L'Amour work.
Dark Canyon

Dark Canyon

Louis L'Amour

When Gaylord Riley walked away from the Coburn gang, he had money and a dream.
Kilrone

Kilrone

Louis L''Amour

And before the day is over, one of them, outnumbered and outgunned, will be trapped in a fight to the finish.… From the Paperback edition.
Hondo

Hondo

Louis L'Amour

Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor. From the Paperback edition.
Sackett

Sackett

Louis L'Amour

Yet the harsh ways it takes to preserve his claim and his life could be the one thing that drives Ange away forever. From the Paperback edition.
Matagorda: A Novel

Matagorda: A Novel

Louis L'Amour

Around Matagorda Island, most people are either backing the Munsons or remaining silent.
Fair Blows the Wind

Fair Blows the Wind

Louis L'Amour

His father killed by the British and his home burned, young Tatton Chantry left Ireland to make his fortune and regain the land that was rightfully his.
Flint

Flint

Louis L'Amour

Flint alone can help Nancy save her ranch…with his cash, his connections—and his gun. He still has his legendary will to fight. All he needs is time, and that’s fast running out…. From the Paperback edition.
Westward the Tide

Westward the Tide

Louis L'Amour

At first it’s unclear what they are planning, but before long Matt realizes that he’s the only man standing between innocent people and a brutal conspiracy of greed, lust, and cold-blooded murder. From the Paperback edition.
Yondering

Yondering

Louis L''Amour

Those were the rough years; often I was hungry, out of work and facing situations such as I have since written about. “Although these stories take place in a variety of locales, they are stories of people living under conditions similar ...
Kilkenny

Kilkenny

Louis L'Amour

He’ll cut down anyone who stands in his way, especially a man he already despises: the gunman named Kilkenny—the man who killed his son. From the Paperback edition.
Fallon

Fallon

Louis L'Amour

Macon Fallon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town.
West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns

West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns

Jane Tompkins

Tompkins brings these insights to bear in considering film classics such as Red River and Lonely Are the Brave, and novels such as Louis L'Amour's Last of the Breed and Owen Wister's The Virginian.
Lando

Lando

Louis L''Amour

His father is missing. The woman he loves is married. And the killers want him dead. Hardened physically and emotionally, Lando must begin an epic journey to resolve his past, even if it costs him his life. From the Paperback edition.
Taggart

Taggart

Louis L'Amour

But when Taggart, a stranger on the run from a vicious bounty hunter, enters their camp, tensions soon mount. Consuelo, against all good judgment, cannot resist testing Taggart. Is he the man who can make her happy?
Glory River

Glory River

Cameron Judd

In the tradition of Louis L'Amour's Sackett series, the Underhill novels chronicle the dramatic saga of one man's life--a life that follows the days of the early American frontier, of the men and women who came together as friends, family, ...
Western American Literature

Western American Literature

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Louis L'Amour on Film and Television. By Ed Andreychuk. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 196 pages, $49.95. Reviewed by D. B. Gough University of Iowa, Iowa City Despite the immense popularity he enjoyed during his lifetime, Western ...
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

Andrei Codrescu

Alas, as we all now know, Paradise is lost. New Orleans, Mon Amour is an epic love song, a clear-eyed elegy, a cultural celebration, and a thank-you note to New Orleans in its Golden Age.
The Strong Shall Live

The Strong Shall Live

Louis L'Amour

Thorndike Large Print® Special Series edition published in 1993 by arrangement with Bantam Books, Inc. Cover design by Abby Trudeau. Cover illustration by Deborah Pompano. The tree indicium is a trademark of Thorndike Press. This book ...
Les autres histoires d'amour

Les autres histoires d'amour

Lucian Dan Teodorovici

Onze chapitres comme autant d'escales sur les rives de l'intimité masculine : les gros bras et la première rouste, l'amour du bout des lèvres, la tentation du mensonge, la paternité sublime et bouleversante, le doute.
African Americans in Downtown St. Louis

African Americans in Downtown St. Louis

John A. Wright Sr.

Since the founding of St. Louis in 1764, Downtown St. Louis has been a center of black cultural, economic, political, and legal achievements that have shaped not only the city of St. Louis, but the nation as well.
Modernism and Copyright

Modernism and Copyright

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Paul K. Saint-Amour ... Copyright. Paul. K. Saint-Amour. No one listening to the hit records “I Got You Babe” or “The Beat Goes On” in the 1960s would have singled out their writer, Sonny Bono, as the future patron saint of perpetual copyright.
Grandville Mon Amour

Grandville Mon Amour

Bryan Talbot

Set three weeks after the finale of Grandville Bryan Talbot's critically acclaimed steampunk graphic novelGrandville Mon Amour explores an alternate artnouveau world populated by intelligent animals, a human underclass, robot automatons, ...
Proceedings

Proceedings

Missouri State Federation of Labor

Lanham of St. Louis, W. R. Stafford of Springfield, H. S. Kratzinger of Jefferson City, Ed. Leberman of St. Louis, H. E. ... T. J. Boyd of St. Louis, Charles M. Post of St. Louis, C. P. Curlis of Sedalia, Sam King of Springfield, Ed. Mullaly of Sedalia,  ...
Les plaisirs de l'amour lesbien

Les plaisirs de l'amour lesbien

Felice Newman

Que vous soyez lesbienne, bisexuelle, androgyne ou transgenderiste, ou que vous veniez tout juste de vous rendre compte que les autres femmes vous attirent, lisez Les plaisirs de l'amour lesbien.
L'improbabilité de l'amour

L'improbabilité de l'amour

Hannah ROTHSCHILD

Tous les coups sont permis ; tous les rêves sont possibles... Mais si L'Improbabilité de l'amour a le pouvoir de changer la vie de celui qui la possède, elle peut également rendre fou celui qui la convoite.
Inauguration of Washington University at Saint Louis, ...

Inauguration of Washington University at Saint Louis, ...

Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)

Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) INAUGURATIOY-AT OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY A'l' SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI. APRIL 23, 1857. B O S T O N; LITTLE , B ROWN AND COMPANY. ST. LOUIS: JOHN HALSALL AND COMI'ANY.

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