Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, USA on March 22nd, 1908 and passed away at the age of 80 on June 10th, 1988.

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Louis L'Amour Stats: The highest rated book by Louis L'Amour on Book Notification is Last of the Breed, the 24th novel in the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series. The second-highest rated book is Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts #18).

The most read book by Louis L'Amour on Book Notification is Sackett's Land, the 13th novel in The Sacketts series. The second most read book is Sackett (The Sacketts #2).

Below is a complete list of Louis L'Amour books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of The Sacketts Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
9
The Daybreakers
1960
Go
2
8.4
Sackett
1961
Go
3
8
Lando
1962
Go
4
9.3
Mojave Crossing
1964
Go
5
9.5
The Sackett Brand
1965
Go
6
9
Mustang Man
1966
Go
7
9
The Sky-Liners
1967
Go
8
9
The Lonely Men
1969
Go
9
9.3
Galloway
1970
Go
10
9
Ride the Dark Trail
1972
Go
11
6.3
Treasure Mountain
1972
Go
12
9
War Party
1973
Go
13
9
Sackett's Land
1974
Go
14
8.8
To the Far Blue Mountains
1976
Go
15
9
Lonely on the Mountain
1980
Go
16
9
Ride the River
1983
Go
17
8.8
The Warrior's Path
1984
Go
18
8.5
Jubal Sackett
1985
Go
19
End of the Drive
1997
Go

List of The Sacketts Books in Chronological Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
9
Sackett's Land
1974
Go
2
8.8
To the Far Blue Mountains
1976
Go
3
8.8
The Warrior's Path
1984
Go
4
8.5
Jubal Sackett
1985
Go
5
9
Ride the River
1983
Go
6
9
The Daybreakers
1960
Go
7
8
Lando
1962
Go
8
8.4
Sackett
1961
Go
9
9.3
Mojave Crossing
1964
Go
10
9.5
The Sackett Brand
1965
Go
11
9
The Sky-Liners
1967
Go
12
9
The Lonely Men
1969
Go
13
9
Mustang Man
1966
Go
14
9.3
Galloway
1970
Go
15
6.3
Treasure Mountain
1972
Go
16
9
Ride the Dark Trail
1972
Go
17
9
Lonely on the Mountain
1980
Go
18
9
War Party
1973
Go
19
End of the Drive
1997
Go

List of Talon Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Rivers West
1975
Go
2
The Man from the Broken Hills
1975
Go
3
Milo Talon
1981
Go

List of Chantry Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
6
North to the Rails
1971
Go
2
Fair Blows the Wind
1973
Go
3
The Ferguson Rifle
1973
Go
4
Over on the Dry Side
1975
Go
5
8
Borden Chantry
1977
Go

List of Chantry Books in Chronological Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Fair Blows the Wind
1973
Go
2
The Ferguson Rifle
1973
Go
3
8
Borden Chantry
1977
Go
4
6
North to the Rails
1971
Go
5
Over on the Dry Side
1975
Go

List of Kilkenny Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Kilkenny
1954
Go
2
8
The Rider of Lost Creek
1976
Go
3
9
The Mountain Valley War / A Man Called Trent
1978
Go
4
West of Dodge
1996
Go
5
A Gun for Kilkenny
1997
Go
6
Monument Rock
1998
Go

List of Kilkenny Books in Chronological Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
West of Dodge
1996
Go
2
8
The Rider of Lost Creek
1976
Go
3
9
The Mountain Valley War / A Man Called Trent
1978
Go
4
Kilkenny
1954
Go
5
A Gun for Kilkenny
1997
Go
6
Monument Rock
1998
Go

List of Hopalong Cassidy Books in Publication Order

A cowboy helps friends, fights outlaws, and rights wrongs across the frontier.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
6
The Riders of High Rock
1951
Go
2
The Rustlers of West Fork
1951
Go
3
7
The Trail to Seven Pines
1951
Go
4
8
Trouble Shooter
1952
Go

List of Hopalong Cassidy Books in Chronological Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Rustlers of West Fork
1951
Go
2
7
The Trail to Seven Pines
1951
Go
3
6
The Riders of High Rock
1951
Go
4
8
Trouble Shooter
1952
Go

List of Louis L’Amour Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Classic western adventures across the wild frontiers.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Showdown at Yellow Butte
1953
Go
2
10
Crossfire Trail
1954
Go
3
Utah Blaine
1954
Go
4
8
To Tame a Land
1955
Go
5
9.3
Heller with a Gun
1955
Go
6
Guns of the Timberlands
1955
Go
7
Silver Canyon
1956
Go
8
9.5
The Burning Hills
1956
Go
9
Sitka
1957
Go
10
10
The Tall Stranger
1957
Go
11
9
Last Stand at Papago Wells
1957
Go
12
Radigan
1959
Go
13
10
Flint
1960
Go
14
High Lonesome
1962
Go
15
10
Killoe
1962
Go
16
6
Dark Canyon
1963
Go
17
10
Kiowa Trail
1964
Go
18
10
Hanging Woman Creek
1964
Go
19
9.5
The Key-Lock Man
1965
Go
20
The High Graders
1965
Go
21
10
The Broken Gun
1966
Go
22
Kilrone
1966
Go
23
Matagorda
1967
Go
24
Chancy
1968
Go
25
8
Brionne
1968
Go
26
6
Conagher
1969
Go
27
10
Under the Sweetwater Rim
1971
Go
28
Tucker
1971
Go
29
The Man from Skibbereen
1973
Go
30
6.3
The Quick and the Dead
1973
Go
31
10
The Californios
1974
Go
32
10
Where the Long Grass Blows
1976
Go
33
10
The Iron Marshal
1979
Go
34
The Proving Trail
1979
Go
35
10
Kiowa Trail and Killoe
1979
Go
36
The Cherokee Trail
1982
Go
37
8
The Shadow Riders
1982
Go
38
Son of a Wanted Man
1984
Go
39
Where Buzzards Fly
1986
Go
40
10
Riding for the Brand
1986
Go
41
South of Deadwood
1986
Go
42
Showdown Trail
1987
Go
43
10
Dead End Drift
1987
Go
44
The Turkeyfeather Riders
1988
Go
45
Four Card Draw
1988
Go
46
10
Bowdrie Passes Through
1988
Go
47
Too Tough to Brand
1989
Go
48
10
The Louis L'Amour Companion (With: Robert Weinberg)
1992
Go
49
The Marshal of Sentinel
1995
Go
50
Strawhouse Trail
1997
Go
51
Love and the Cactus Kid
1999
Go
52
Survival
1999
Go
53
Lit a Shuck for Texas
2003
Go
54
The Sixth Shotgun
2003
Go
55
10
The First Fast Draw
2003
Go
56
His Brother's Debt
2008
Go
57
10
Big Medicine
2008
Go
58
Job for a Ranger
2008
Go
59
No Man's Man
2008
Go
60
Medicine Ground
2008
Go
61
That Triggernometry Tenderfoot
2008
Go
62
Dawn Riders
2010
Go
63
Unguarded Moment
2012
Go
64
The Black Rock Coffin Makers
2013
Go
65
Riders of the Tumbling K
2014
Go
66
4
Showdown
2017
Go
67
10
Three Bullets for the Cactus Kid
2018
Go
68
10
Bannon
2019
Go

List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
10
Smoke from This Altar
1939
Go
2
The Strong Shall Live
1980
Go
3
10
Buckskin Run
1981
Go
4
Law of the Desert Born
1983
Go
5
Bowdrie's Law
1984
Go
6
9.5
Dutchman's Flat
1986
Go
7
Night Over the Solomons
1986
Go
8
The Trail to Crazy Man
1986
Go
9
Man Riding West
1986
Go
10
9
The Rider of the Ruby Hills
1986
Go
11
West from Singapore
1987
Go
12
10
Lonigan
1988
Go
13
Long Ride Home
1989
Go
14
9.8
Grub Line Rider
1990
Go
15
8
The Outlaws of Mesquite
1990
Go
16
10
West of the Tularosa
1992
Go
17
8
Black Rock: A Western Trio
1994
Go
18
Valley of the Sun
1995
Go
19
West of Dodge Collection
1996
Go
20
7.7
Mistakes Can Kill You
1997
Go
21
Monument Rock
1998
Go
22
7
Beyond the Great Snow Mountains
1999
Go
23
10
May There Be a Road
2001
Go
24
10
With These Hands
2002
Go
25
10
Louis L'Amour Trail Mix: Volume Two
2002
Go
26
From the Listening Hills
2003
Go
27
8
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1
2003
Go
28
10
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2
2004
Go
29
7
Home in the Valley
2005
Go
30
10
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 3
2005
Go
31
10
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4
2006
Go
32
10
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour Volume 5
2007
Go
33
Big Country, Volume 1
2007
Go
34
10
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 6
2008
Go
35
10
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 7
2009
Go
36
The Frontier Stories
2009
Go
37
Big Country, Vol. 3
2010
Go
38
10
The Man from Battle Flat
2010
Go
39
7.5
Glory Riders
2011
Go
40
7
The Strong Land
2012
Go
41
10
Desert Death-Song
2013
Go
42
We Shaped the Land with Our Guns
2014
Go
43
10
The Chick Bowdrie Short Stories Bundle
2015
Go
44
10
Golden Gunmen
2016
Go

List of Louis L’Amour Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Frontier
1984
Go
2
8
The Sackett Companion
1988
Go
3
A Trail of Memories
1988
Go
4
9
Education of a Wandering Man
1989
Go
5
Martin H. M. Schreiber: Last of a Breed
2017
Go
6
Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures - Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes
2018
Go
7
Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2 - More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes
2019
Go

List of Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8.7
Hondo
1953
Go
2
Kilkenny
1954
Go
3
Taggart
1959
Go
4
10
Shalako
1962
Go
5
8
How the West Was Won
1962
Go
6
10
Kid Rodelo
1966
Go
7
8
Down the Long Hills
1968
Go
8
10
The Man Called Noon
1969
Go
9
The Empty Land
1969
Go
10
10
Fallon
1969
Go
11
8.7
Reilly's Luck
1970
Go
12
8
Callaghen
1972
Go
13
Fair Blows the Wind
1973
Go
14
The Ferguson Rifle
1973
Go
15
Over on the Dry Side
1975
Go
16
10
Westward the Tide
1976
Go
17
6.5
Bendigo Shafter
1979
Go
18
Yondering
1980
Go
19
8
Comstock Lode
1981
Go
20
9.5
The Lonesome Gods
1983
Go
21
The Hills of Homicide
1983
Go
22
6
Bowdrie
1983
Go
23
10
The Walking Drum
1984
Go
24
Passin' Through
1985
Go
25
8.8
Last of the Breed
1986
Go
26
The Haunted Mesa
1987
Go
27
8.5
Off the Mangrove Coast
2000
Go
28
8
Catlow
2018
Go
29
8
No Traveller Returns
2018
Go

List of Louis L' Amour Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

Gunfighters face loyalty tests and must choose between violence and peace.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8
Riders of the Dawn
1951
Go
2
The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon
1992
Go

List of The Golden West Books in Publication Order (with Zane Grey, with Max Brand, with Jon Tuska, with Christopher Lane)

Fiction set in the Wild West's Golden Age.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Stories of the Golden West: Book 1 (By: Jon Tuska)
2000
Go
2
Stories of the Golden West, Book 2 (By: Jon Tuska)
2001
Go
3
Stories of the Golden West, Book 3 (By: Zane Grey, Max Brand, Jon Tuska, Christopher Lane)
2002
Go
4
Stories of the Golden West, Book 4 (By: Jon Tuska)
2002
Go
5
Stories of the Golden West, Book 5 (By: Grover Gardner, Zane Grey, Max Brand, Jon Tuska)
2004
Go
6
Stories of the Golden West, Book 6 ( By: Zane Grey)
2005
Go
7
Stories of the Golden West, Book 7 (With: Zane Grey, Max Brand, Jon Tuska)
2006
Go
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List of Louis L'Amour Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Western Movies
1997
Go
2
The Best of the American West
1998
Go
3
The Best of the American West II
1999
Go
4
Guns of the West
2002
Go
5
The Golden West
2003
Go
6
The Untamed West
2004
Go
7
Lone Star Law
2005
Go
8
6
Lost Trails
2007
Go
9
The Lawless West
2007
Go
10
Ghost Towns
2010
Go
11
Three Classic Westerns
2013
Go
12
Trailin' West
2016
Go
13
G-Men Detective - Fall 1950
2022
Go
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Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour (Louis Dearborn LaMoore) was born on March 22nd, 1908. Louis passed away June 10th, 1988 at 80 years old. Louis L'Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, USA.

Louis L'Amour had written 68 standalone novels, starting with Showdown at Yellow Butte in 1953. The most recently released novel was Bannon, which was released in 2019.

Louis L'Amour also wrote the Short Story Collections series which has 44 books including Smoke from This Altar and The Strong Shall Live.

Louis L'Amour: Awards & Accolades

Louis L'Amour won the Owen Wister Award, Saddleman Award, in 1981.

L'Amour's books have also won multiple awards, Down the Long Hills won the Spur Awards, Western Novel, in 1968. Bendigo Shafter won the National Book Awards, Best Western, in 1980.

L'Amour's book, Big Country, Volume 1 was nominated for the Audie Award, Best Short Stories or Collections, in 2008.

Louis L'Amour: Lists & Other Mentions

  • Jubal Sackett was a New York Times: #1 Fiction Best Seller in 1985 and a Publishers Weekly: Bestselling Novel in the United States in 1985.
  • Last of the Breed was a New York Times: #1 Fiction Best Seller in 1986 and a Publishers Weekly: Bestselling Novel in the United States in 1986.
  • The Haunted Mesa was a New York Times: #1 Fiction Best Seller in 1987.
  • The Lonesome Gods was a Publishers Weekly: Bestselling Novel in the United States in 1983.

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  6. Sarah Gailey, author of: The Echo Wife.
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Louis L'Amour: F.A.Q

When was Louis L'Amour Born?

Louis L'Amour was born on March 22nd, 1908.

When did Louis L'Amour die?

Louis L'Amour died on June 10th, 1988 at 80 years old.

Where was Louis L'Amour Born?

Louis L'Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, USA.

What awards has Louis L'Amour won?

Louis L'Amour has won the following awards: Saddleman Award at the Owen Wister Award (1981).

What book awards has Louis L'Amour won?

Down the Long Hills: Spur Awards Western Novel (1968).
Bendigo Shafter: National Book Awards Best Western (1980).

What was the first book Louis L'Amour wrote?

The first book written by Louis L'Amour was Smoke from This Altar, published in 1939.

What was the most recent book Louis L'Amour wrote?

His most recently released work was Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2 - More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes on November 19th, 2019.

What is the most popular book by Louis L'Amour?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Louis L'Amour book is Sackett's Land. Here are his most popular books:
  1. Sackett's Land (9)
  2. Sackett (8.4)
  3. To the Far Blue Mountains (8.75)
  4. The Daybreakers (9)
  5. Jubal Sackett (8.5)

How many books has Louis L'Amour written?

Louis L'Amour has written 184 books across 12 series, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 19 books in The Sacketts Series
  • 3 books in the Talon Series
  • 5 books in the Chantry Series
  • 6 books in the Kilkenny Series
  • 4 books in the Hopalong Cassidy Series
  • 68 Louis L’Amour Standalone Novels
  • 44 Short Story Collections
  • 7 Louis L’Amour Non-Fiction Books
  • 29 books in the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures Series
  • 2 Louis L' Amour Short Stories/Novellas
  • 1 book in The Golden West Series

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