Louis L'Amour

In the first in this trio of Western stories by Louis L'Amour - "Black Rock" - Jim Gatlin, a Texas trail driver, arrives in the town of Tucker where he finds himself drawn into the middle of an all-out battle for the XY Ranch when he kills the segundo of Wing Cary's Flying C Ranch....

Collected here in a single book are several of Louis L'Amour's finest Western stories the way Mr. L'Amour wrote them....

A young gunslinger is changed for the better by meeting a beautiful woman. A classic range-war Western....

Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon. He has fully recovered when the train pulls into a fort to stock up on supplies....

There will never be another Western writer like Louis L’Amour....

Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings....

Warrior, lover, and scholar Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russian steppes, and through the Byzantine wonders of Constantinople....

Lance Kilkenny's gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears....

Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of the Revolution, broke out of jail and headed north from Mexico with nothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new trouble....

Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father's disappearance 20 years before....

Hopalong rode into cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell....

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. Schooled along the way in the use of arms, Chantry arrives in London a wiser and far more dangerous man....

Jubal Sackett’s urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands....

Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to make his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a royal warrant had been sworn out against him and that men were searching for him in every port....

It was a name that caused the most hardened gunmen to break out in a cold sweat: Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie....

Tell Sackett and his bride Ange came to Arizona to build a home and start a family. But on Black Mesa, something goes terribly wrong....

Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of US Air Force major Joe Mack, a man born out of time....

“I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid.” This was the boy’s mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather....

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it"....

They tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better....