The collected short stories of Louis L'Amour
(Book)

Louis L'Amour's short stories are the bedrock of his enduring popularity. It was with this quintessentially American form that he first found success as a writer, and the great themes that would infuse all of his work first surfaced in unforgettable tales like these - legends of honor and betrayal, greed and sacrifice, cowardice and courage. These stories bring us face-to-face with heroism in unexpected places: in the form of a single mother facing down an Apache war party; or a whiskey-soaked drunk who wakes to find he's the only hope for a town surrounded by marauders. They reveal the many faces of justice, from the fitting punishment a prospector left to die in the desert exacts on his betrayers, to the gauntlet of double and triple crosses four escaped convicts must run in a hunt for gold that will leave only one of them alive.

Louis L'Amour's short stories are the bedrock of his enduring popularity. It was with this quintessentially American form that he first found success as a writer, and the great themes that would infuse all of his work first surfaced in unforgettable tales like these - legends of honor and betrayal, greed and sacrifice, cowardice and courage. These stories bring us face-to-face with heroism in unexpected places: in the form of a single mother facing down an Apache war party; or a whiskey-soaked drunk who wakes to find he's the only hope for a town surrounded by marauders. They reveal the many faces of justice, from the fitting punishment a prospector left to die in the desert exacts on his betrayers, to the gauntlet of double and triple crosses four escaped convicts must run in a hunt for gold that will leave only one of them alive.