
Cover Louis L'Amour book, Showdown at Yellow Butte.
Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 - June 10, 1988) was an American author of primarily Western fiction.
Novels[]
(including series novels e.g. the Sackett novels)
- Westward the Tide (1950)
- Riders of High Rock, the (1951)
- Rustlers of West Fork, the (1951)
- Trail to Seven Pines, the (1951)
- Trouble Shooter (1952)
- Hondo (1953)
- Showdown at Yellow Butte (1953)
- Crossfire Trail (1954)
- Heller with a Gun (1954)
- Kilkenny (1954)
- Utah Blaine (1954)
- Guns of the Timberlands (1955)
- To Tame a Land (1955)
- Burning Hills, the (1956)
- Silver Canyon (1956)
- Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957)
- Sitka (1957)
- Tall Stranger, the (1957)
- Radigan (1958)
- First Fast Draw, the (1959)
- Taggart (1959)
- Daybreakers, the (1960)
- Flint (1960)
- Sackett (1961)
- High Lonesome (1962)
- Killoe (1962)
- Lando (1962)
- Shalako (1962)
- Catlow (1963)
- Dark Canyon (1963)
- Fallon (1963)
- How the West Was Won (1963)
- Hanging Woman Creek (1964)
- Mojave Crossing (1964)
- High Graders, the (1965)
- Key-Lock Man, the (1965)
- Kiowa Trail (1965)
- Sackett Brand, the (1965)
- Broken Gun, the (1966)
- Kid Rodelo (1966)
- Kilrone (1966)
- Mustang Man (1966)
- Matagorda (1967)
- Sky-Liners, the (1967)
- Chancy (1968)
- Conagher (1968)
- Down the Long Hills (1968)
- Empty Land, the (1969)
- Lonely Men, the (1969)
- Galloway (1970)
- Man Called Noon, the (1970)
- Reilly's Luck (1970)
- Brionne (1971)
- Ferguson Rifle, the (1971)
- North to the Rails (1971)
- Tucker (1971)
- Under the Sweetwater Rim (1971)
- Callaghen (1972)
- Ride the Dark Trail (1972)
- Man from Skibbereen, the (1973)
- Quick and the Dead, the (1973)
- Treasure Mountain (1973)
- Californios, the (1974)
- Sackett's Land (1974)
- Man From the Broken Hills, the (1975)
- Over on the Dry Side (1975)
- Rivers West (1975)
- Rider of Lost Creek, the (1976)
- To the Far Blue Mountains (1976)
- Where the Long Grass Blows (1976)
- Borden Chantry (1977)
- Bendigo Shafter (1978)
- Fair Blows the Wind (1978)
- Mountain Valley War, the (1978)
- Iron Marshal, the (1979)
- Proving Trail, the (1979)
- Lonely on the Mountain (1980)
- Warrior's Path, the (1980)
- Comstock Lode (1981)
- Milo Talon (1981)
- Cherokee Trail, the (1982)
- Shadow Riders, the (1982)
- Lonesome Gods, the (1983)
- Ride the River (1983)
- Son of a Wanted Man (1984)
- Walking Drum, the (1984)
- Jubal Sackett (1985)
- Passin' Through (1985)
- Last of the Breed (1986)
- West of Pilot Range (1986)
- Trail to the West, a (1986)
- The Haunted Mesa|Haunted Mesa, The (1987)
Sackett novels[]
In fictional story order (not the order written). [1]
- Sackett’s Land - Barnabas Sackett
- To the Far Blue Mountains - Barnabas Sackett
- The Warrior’s Path - Kin Ring Sackett
- Jubal Sackett - Jubal Sackett, Itchakomi Ishai
- Ride the River - Echo Sackett
- The Daybreakers - Orrin and Tyrel Sackett, Cap Rountree, Tom Sunday
- Lando - Orlando Sackett, the Tinker
- Sackett - William Tell Sackett, Cap Rountree
- Mojave Crossing - William Tell Sackett
- The Sackett Brand - William Tell Sackett, and the whole passel of Sacketts!
- The Skyliners - Flagan and Galloway Sackett
- The Lonely Men - William Tell Sackett
- Mustang Man - Nolan Sackett
- Galloway - Galloway and Flagan Sackett
- Treasure Mountain - William Tell Sackett
- Ride the Dark Trail - Logan Sackett
- Lonely on the Mountain - William Tell, Orrin and Tyrel Sackett
There are also two Sackett-related short stories:
- "The Courting of Griselda" (available in End of the Drive)
- "Booty for a Badman" (available in War Party)
Sacketts are also involved in the plot of 4 other novels:
- Bendigo Schafter (Ethan Sackett)
- Dark Canyon (William Tell Sackett)
- Borden Chantry (Joe Sackett, killed in ambush that B Chantry solves murder)
- Passin' Through (we are led to believe that this might be William Tell)
Talon and Chantry novels[]
- Borden Chantry
- Fair Blows the Wind
- The Ferguson Rifle
- The Man from the Broken Hills
- Milo Talon
- North to the Rails
- Over on the Dry Side
- Rivers West
Kilkenny novels[]
Interestingly, the last story (in fictional story order) was published more than 20 years before the other installments.
- The Rider of Lost Creek (1976)
- The Mountain Valley War (1978)
- Kilkenny (1954)
Hopalong Cassidy novels[]
Originally published pseudonymously as "Tex Burns".
- The Riders of High Rock
- The Rustlers of West Fork
- The Trail to Seven Pines
- Trouble Shooter
Collections of short stories[]
- War Party (1975)
- Strong Shall Live, the (1980)
- Yondering (1980; revised edition 1989)
- Buckskin Run (1981)
- Bowdrie (1983)
- Hills of Homicide, the (1983)
- Law of the Desert Born (1983)
- Bowdrie's Law (1984)
- Night Over the Solomons (1986)
- Rider of the Ruby Hills, the (1986)
- Riding for the Brand (1986)
- Trail to Crazy Man, the (1986)
- Dutchman's Flat (1986)
- Lonigan (1988)
- Long Ride Home (1989)
- Outlaws of Mesquite, the (1990)
- West from Singapore (1991)
- Valley of the Sun (1995)
- West of Dodge (1996)
- End of the Drive (1997)
- Monument Rock (1998)
- Beyond the Great Snow Mountains (1999)
- Off the Mangrove Coast (2000)
- May There Be a Road (2001)
- With These Hands (2002)
- From the Listening Hills (2003)
- Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 1
- Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 2
- Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 3
- Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 4
Non-fiction books[]
- Education Of A Wandering Man
- Frontier
- The Sackett Companion
- A Trail Of Memories: The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour (compiled by Angelique L'Amour)
Poetry[]
- Smoke From This Altar
Compilations with other authors[]
- The Golden West
- Stagecoach