West of the Tularosa

by Louis L'Amour

Book Overview

In "The Sixth Shotgun," Leo Carver has been sentenced to hang in the town of Caon Gap. He admitted to trying to hold up the stage, but when he saw his friend Mitch Williams riding shotgun, he rode... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843964103
• ISBN13: 9780843964103
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

West of Tularosa

I love Louis L'Amour stories, especially his short stories and this fit the bill perfectly.

Western

Like all of his books, it is an escape from everyday life. An adventure with historical properties that teach life lessons

REVISITING LOUIS L'AMOUR'S EARLIER PULP WESTERNS

This latest release in the string of Louis L'Amour short story westerns from Leisure Books is certain to be a success. The others to date have been BIG MEDICINE, TRAILING WEST, GRUB LINE RIDER, SHOWDOWN TRAIL, A MAN CALLED TRENT, and THE SIXTH SHOTGUN, plus 3 anthologies. Back in March, 1986, Louis L'Amour and Bantam books were forced to issue two books of short stories due to another publisher's unauthorized release of stories that L'Amour had not yet issued. Those two books from Bantam were entitled RIDING FOR THE BRAND and DUTCHMAN'S FLAT. The stories within this volume just reissued by Leisure Westerns have eight of the stories from RIDING FOR THE BRAND and DUTCHMAN'S FLAT. However, as printed by Leisure these 8 stories remain the way they appeared in Western magazines of the late 1940s and early to mid-1950s without Louis' editing that he did for the two 1986 Bantam books. The story titles from the newly printed WEST OF THE TULAROSA are listed below. I've also included the 1986 Bantam book in which they appeared, and also the date the stories were published in various western magazines: Mistakes Can Kill You (Dutchman's Flat) 11/1950 The Man From Battle Flat (Dutchman's Flat) 1/52 The Lion Hunter and the Lady (Dutchman's Flat) 8/51 The One for the Mohave Kid (Dutchman's Flat) 9/54 West Is Where The Heart Is (Riding For The Brand) 4/51 Home In The Valley (Riding For The Brand) 8/49 Fork Your Own Broncs (Riding For The Brand) 5/47 West of The Tularosa (Dutchman's Flat) 3/51 As Louis L'Amour states in the forward to RIDING FOR THE BRAND, "Beginning a writing career is never easy and the stories in this collection were often written when the going was rough.". You can also sense the excitement by Louis as each one of these short stories were accepted for publication. He had worked so hard for so long, and had received many rejection slips. At long last, he knew he was finally getting somewhere, with most of the stories within the newly issued Leisure book collection being good to very good. In some ways this was a writer still honing and maturing style and voice in his chosen field. One thing that may be of interest to some new comers to the short fiction of Louis L'Amour is the Introduction by Jon Tuska for this volume. It offers biographical background information on and about Louis L'Amour. I have all of Louis L'Amour books in the Bantam Hardcover editions, over 100 in all all stacked on shelves in their saddle brown leather cover with western script gold letters on their bindings. Yet I never seem to tire of reading anything anyone still issues by Louis L'Amour. One of the smaller reasons I like his writing are the names he picked for the people who inhabit his books. Check these few out and maybe you will see what I mean: Loss Degner, Flitch, Bush Leason, Krag Moran, Shorty Grimes, Cat Morgan, Flagg Warneke, Harve Bemis, and Kim Sartain, among many others in this book and all the other books of Louis L'Amour. I've lived many y