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Showdown at Yellow Butte

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
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