Louis L'Amour has 145 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 68 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 619 ratings. The most-rated is Sackett's Land.
Louis L'Amour Collection One
Summary
Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) is a world-renowned novelist and short story writer, noted primarily for his stories of the Western frontier. He was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, and led an active, world-roaming life as, among other things, a seaman, longshoreman, rancher, miner, lumberjack, and boxer before focusing on writing after World War II. L'Amour was awarded both the Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Freedom and is one of America's best-selling fiction authors. The Louis L'Amour Collection One includes, in order: "The Nester and the Piute" (19 minutes). Bin Morley, the nester, trails a bad and dangerous man to a violent confrontation. Short but good. "Case Closed - No Prisoners" (51 minutes). Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie is sent to Kimble, Texas, to investigate a bank robbery in which the banker was tortured and killed. "Big Medicine" (28 minutes). Old Billy Dunbar is discovered and attacked by a band of Apaches while prospecting for gold with his two burros. "His Brother's Debt" (43 minutes). Rock Casady, haunted by demons from his past, runs from a gun fight. "West Is Where the Heart Is" (32 minutes). Jim London, heading home to New Mexico after the Civil War, is attacked by Comanches. Without a horse or weapon, he comes upon a girl, the lone survivor of a Comanche massacre, and continues home. "Lit a Shuck for Texas" (39 minutes). The Sandy Kid, a ranch cowhand, discovers gold ore and a murdered man while rounding up a steer. "Desert Death-Song" (36 minutes). Jim Morton joins a posse that is hunting his friend Nat Bodine, who is accused of robbing a stage and shooting the sheriff.
Public Domain (P)2011 Aspen Leaf Media
The One for the Mojave Kid - Lonigan - War Party (Dramatized)
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"One for the Mohave Kid": Few men were as deadly - or troublesome - with a gun as the Mohave Kid. Ab Kale, marshal of Hinkley, had warned the Kid to stay away from his town. Even as he trained his own adopted son, Riley, to handle a gun, he worried for both of them. He knew the Kid was the bloodthirsty sort who would one day force a showdown. But he couldn’t know when…or prepare Riley for the test of his young life. "Lonigan": Ruth Gurney arrived home to find her late father’s cattle ranch in debt, and their trail-boss, Lonigan, missing. As luck would have it, there is a conveniently available replacement - Hoey Ives. The ranch hands are uneasy with Ives’s place on the drive, but the money is desperately needed and there’s no time to wait for Lonigan. After days on the trail with no sign of water, weak cattle, and restless men, Ruth can’t help but have second thoughts about the seemingly trustworthy Ives. When he suddenly proposes and asks for more than her hand in marriage, Ruth knows she has to find out what he’s really up to - and fast. "War Party": Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man.... Tell Sackett killed cougars at 14 and fought a war at 15. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight - a soldier's wife and a fortune in gold - knowing that someone wanted him dead.... Laurie Bonnet was a mail-order bride who thought she was a failure on the frontier. But when the chips were down, she was the only one who could save her husband's life.... In these marvelous stories of the West, Louis L'Amour tells of travelers, gunfighters, homesteaders, and adventurers: men and women making hard and sudden choices and fighting battles that could cut a person's life short - or open up a bold new future on the American frontier.
©1982 Louis L'Amour (P)2013 Random House Audio
A Trail to the West - Love and the Cactus Kid - Medicine Ground (Dramatized)
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"A Trail to the West": Riding under an alias, Bowdrie joins up with Queen’s ruthless gang to rescue the pretty niece of a powerful Texas judge. But when Queen discovers the lawman’s true identity, Bowdrie must do some fast thinking and even faster shooting to beat the odds - five guns to one! "Love and the Cactus Kid": Folks far and wide know that the Cactus Kid can handle a pistol with the best of them. But for all his skill and coolness under fire, there’s just one small weakness he can’t seem to overcome - and it may prove the death of him. "Medicine Ground": The Cactus Kid is on his way to the spring dance to meet his best girl, Bess O’Neal. As the Kid ambles through the lonely mountain trail toward town, two men emerge from the darkness - Miguel and Lobo Fernandez, of the menacing Fernandez brothers. And what they want from the Cactus Kid is vengeance.
©1982 Louis L'Amour (P)2013 Random House Audio
The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon
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Orphaned as a child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry, and raised and trained to take over his empire of crime. Today, Mike is the quickest draw and the stealthiest tracker around, and Ben Curry is getting ready to retire. To test Mike's wings, he has set him a task: the planning and execution of a gold-train robbery. Now, as he prepares for his first criminal job, Mike must decide whether to follow the path that has been set before him or to carve out a destiny of his own. If he assumes the position of gang leader, he will face deadly competition from within Curry's band, but if he refuses, he may not be allowed to leave the pack alive. The dilemma is further complicated when he falls for Drusilla, Ben Curry's real daughter, who knows nothing of her father's career. Either way Mike chooses, a showdown is in store.
©1949 Best Publications, Inc. Copyright not renewed. 2007 Golden West Literary Agency (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc.
McNelly Knows a Ranger - A Job for a Ranger - Desert Death Song (Dramatized)
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"McNelly Knows a Ranger": From the day Chick Bowdrie rode up to Noah Whipple’s ranch gravely wounded, Whipple had treated him with kindness - almost like a son. When Whipple is shot by a notorious gunfighter, Bowdrie swears vengeance. Joining McNelly’s Texas Rangers, he vows to hunt down the killer along with his gang. But Chick Bowdrie does not realize just how vicious they are...or how ruthless they can be. "A Job for a Ranger": There were bullet holes in the bank window and blood on the hitching rail. Five bandits and 10,000 dollars had ridden out of town and no one at the Rancher’s Rest saloon had seen anything but a distinctively colored horse belonging to a local. But Chick Bowdrie soon had hard evidence that he was dealing with savage killers. To clear the name of an innocent man, Bowdrie pursues the murderous gang of bank robbers and cattle rustlers. "Desert Death Song": Powder Basin - the rugged country at the edge of a dry, forbidding desert - holds more hiding places than most men could find. Nat Bodine knows most of them; holed up in the Basin hills by a posse of over 100 men, he needs them more than ever before. Jim Morton knows that if anyone is going to escape this posse, it’s Bodine, just as he knows that Bodine is the kind of man who wouldn’t commit the crime of which he’s accused.
©1982 Louis L'Amour (P)2013 Random House Audio
The Ghost of Buckskin Run
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For the westerner trouble came with the territory. Long grass valleys, merciless deserts, sheer rock cliffs, icy streams, hidden trails, dusty towns: These were the proving grounds of daily life. At any time violence could explode and on the frontier there was no avoiding its sudden terrible impact. In this collection of his stories Louis L’Amour guides us to some of these untamed places where men and women faced the challenge of survival. And for the first time, L’Amour also presents a selection of riveting scenes from western history that are every bit as exciting as his stories.
©1981 Louis and Katherine L'Amour Trust (P)2012 Random House Audio
More Brains Than Bullets - The Road to Casas Piedras - West of Dodge (Dramatized)
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"The Road to Casas Piedras": In the midst of a lively country dance, gunshots ring out at the stagecoach station and Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie finds the station's master sprawled in a pool of his own blood. Twelve thousand dollars are missing. And an innocent man has been murdered. And it's up to Chick to bring the killer to justice. With the unerring instincts that make him one of the best trackers in the Texas Rangers, Chick locates the killer's camp - and his lifeless body, courtesy of a double-crossing accomplice. But the bloodshed won't end unless Chick can stop the mastermind behind the robbery, an unlikely schemer whose greed makes good men bad - and careless men dead. "More Brains Than Bullets":Banker Tom Lindsay made a bad decision when he decided to do business with Ross Yerby. Yerby convinced Tom to print a few extra greenbacks to help him trade some cattle in exchange for half the profit. What Tom hadn't figured into the equation was Ross losing the money, and returning - desperate - for more. An argument between the two men goes bad, Lindsay is killed, and Yerby flees with a bundle of Lindsay's cash in tow. With no witnesses to the robbery turned murder, the first accusing finger is pointed at Lindsay's assistant, Bill Culver, who's conveniently absent when Lindsay's body is discovered. But Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie, who's just arrived in town on a different matter, decides to take a detour and try to find Lindsay's killer. What he finds is a second victim - but this one's still alive. "West of Dodge": Where the real frontier begins... A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt.... A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge.... From purple sage to gambler's gold, from a señorita's tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here are stories with a distinctive L'Amour twist. A quiet farmer defends his honor in a moment of panic and luck...only to find true courage on the run from the dead man's brothers. A young drifter defends a lady's honor...and finds himself the quarry of a hanging posse. An aging marshal with a reputation as a crack shot faces a stranger who knows his secret. With relentless suspense and unforgettable drama, Louis L'Amour once again paints a vivid portrait of our western heritage that will live forever.
©1982 Louis L'Amour (P)2013 Random House Audio
McQueen of the Tumbling K - West of Tularosa - The Sixth Shotgun (Dramatized)
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"McQueen of the Tumbling K": Ranch foreman Ward McQueen recognizes trouble when he sees it - and trouble is what the Texan sees when he spies the tracks of a wounded man in the middle of the big Tumbling K spread. In town, he learns that a tinhorn gambler has just won the ranch next to the Tumbling K in a dirty card game - and is turning his oily gaze toward the K's pretty owner, Miss Ruth Kermitt. Sure as shooting, McQueen knows the shifty-eyed parlor snake has something to do with the tracks, but before he can prove it to Ruth Kermitt, McQueen finds himself ambushed, dry-gulched, and left in a shallow grave to die - "West of the Tularosas" Pelona was a strange town, and Ward McQueen was a stranger to it. The stalwart foreman of the Tumbling K had come to the high country to take legal possession of the Firebox range. But the sight that greeted him when he arrived was an ugly one: the battle-stained and bullet-ridden body of its former owner. It was clear that the young Jimmy McCracken had gone out fighting, for his killers left behind a trail of blood. Now McQueen has followed that trail - straight to Pelona, a town so full of double-dealings and trickery that the truth can only be uncovered from behind the barrel of a gun. "The Sixth Shotgun" The gallows are going up in Canyon Gap and wild-spirited Leo Carver is going to swing. A known troublemaker without an alibi, Leo certainly had motives for holding up the stage and killing two men, yet he still proclaims his innocence. There's a lot of folks who want to believe him, because although Leo Carver is a hard-living, free-spending maverick, he is the kind of man the West needs. But as an angry mob forms outside the jail demanding a hanging, a beautiful woman is asking questions - the kind that could uncover a smoking shotgun - and a twisted motive for murder.
©1982 Louis L'Amour (P)2013 Random House Audio
The Black Rock Coffin Makers (Dramatized)
Summary
A classic Western adventure from America's favorite storyteller Louis L'Amour. Louis L'Amour brings you the Wild West as you've never heard it before. This classic story, complete with a full cast, stirring music, and authentic sound effects, sweeps listeners back to the rough-and-tumble days of the old West - when men put their lives on the line for the sake of honor, and truth and justice were fought on the open plain. Cattleman Jum Gatlin isn't the kind of man who goes looking for a fight. But he never turns away when one comes looking for him. And that's just what happens when he finds himself mistaken for another man - a man who has some very dangerous enemies. Like it or not, Gatlin is a dead ringer for the only man in town who stands between the ruthless Wing Carey and the ownership of the XY Ranch. Framed for the murder of the real Jim Walker, Gatlin suddenly finds himself the town's most wanted man. Now he must clear his name and help a pretty young firebrand by putting his own bid on the XY...with a pair of blazing six-shooters.
©1987 Louis L'Amour Enterprises, Inc (P)1987 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
A Man Called Trent
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Set in New Mexico, A Man Called Trent opens with a nester named Dick Moffitt lying dead where he was killed by King Bill Hale's riders. Sally Crane, who is 16 and was adopted by Moffitt, and Moffitt's 14-year-old Jack witnessed the murder from their hiding place.
©2014 Golden West Literary Agency, Blackstone Publishing (P)2015 Recorded Books
Trap of Gold & Hattan's Castle
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"Trap of Gold": Weatherton finds the dream of a lifetime, a vein richer in gold than he ever cared to imagine. He knew he had more than he needed, but he almost lost his senses - and his life - as the fever began to take control of him. "Hattan's Castle": Every plan Jim Daniels tries, including murder, fails to trick Bon Cado out of his glittering claim. Finally he sends his own lovely Cherry Creslin to tempt Cado into a false move.
©1982 Louis L'Amour; 2013 Random House Audio
Outlaws of Poplar Creek
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Few travelers happen by Lee's Canyon. But when Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie suddenly appears at Moby Fosdick's door looking for Shad Tucker, slowly brewing trouble begins boiling over fast. Before the sun sets, bullets are flying. And by the time it rises again, Bowdrie's badly outnumbered, 16-year-old Lily Fosdick is trapped in a cave with a cold-hearted killer, and it's high time for 19-year-old Jerry Fosdick to decide which side of the law he's one.
©1993 Louis L'Amour (P)2008 Random House Audio
Stories of the Golden West, Book 3
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A collection of classic Western tales Tappan's Burro by Zane Grey Prospecting was lonely business for Tappan, but his burro Jenet was good company, and she knew the trails and waterholes better than Tappan. She tracked with him, faithful, his only friend. And he repays her with a final, supreme effort of heart, will, and spirit. Jargan M by Max Brand Jargan, a summer gambler wintering in the western town of Big Horn, saves the life of Don José Cordoba and unwittingly acquires a new job. Soon he finds himself on a boat to Buenos Aires as the handler - and protector - of two extraordinary horses. The Trail to Crazy Man by Louis L'Amour Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings - but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec, whom he hopes will protect his family.
©2014 Jon Tuska (P)2014 Blackstone Audio
Man Riding West
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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." This volume presents nine of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories - history that lives forever.
©1986 Jon Tuska and Louis L'Amour (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Bowdrie Passes Through
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A classic Western adventure from America's favorite storyteller, Louis L'Amour. Louis L'Amour brings you the Wild West as you've never heard it before. This classic story, complete with a full cast, stirring music, and authentic sound effects, sweeps listeners back to the rough-and-tumble days of the old West - when men put their lives on the line for the sake of honor, and truth and justice were fought on the open plain. Ride with the legendary Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie as he sticks up for Josh Pettibone, a stubborn loner who faces the hanging noose of a kangaroo court. Bugs Tatum wants Pettibone's land: and he's willing to do anything to get it. He almost gets away with it...but then justice rides into town to set matters straight.
©1983 Louis L'Amour Enterprises, Inc. (P)1988 Random House, Inc.
Strange Pursuit - The Marshal of Sentinel - Booty for a Bad Man (Dramatized)
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"Strange Pursuit": Bowdrie wants Charlie Venk. Shrewd and intelligent, Venk is riding hard on the sorrel he's stolen right out from under another man. His good looks, fast gun, and reckless wit have already made him a legend. So Bowdrie has to be smarter, faster - and more relentless - in tracking his prey across dusty cowtowns, barren desert landscapes, and through the canyons and pine forests of northern Arizona into deadly Apache territory. "The Marshal of Sentinel": Tough and vicious, the Fred Henry Gang had been robbing banks all along the stage route from Santa Fe to Tularosa. It was only a matter of time before they hit the sleepy town of Sentinel, and Marshal Fitz Moore knew that day had come. But when Julia Heath appeared out of the blue to raise the spectre of the past he had a desperate and delicate situation on his hands. Now the Marshal had to foil a bank robbery, prevent a bloodbath, and pray that the lovely young lady would fathom the quick, cruel violence of the savage frontier and find forgiveness in her heart. "Booty for a Bad Man": Tell Sackett knew that gold spelled trouble faster than anything except a woman, and he had a lot of gold. Problem was, none of it was his. Tell was just delivering the gold for a fee. And now the Coopers, a gang of bloodthirsty desperadoes, were hot on his trail.So the last thing Tell needed was Christine Mallory to slow him down. But to leave her in the desert was to leave her to die. As Tell Sackett's father used to say, "Women are trouble". Tell was about to learn what he meant.
©1982 Louis L'Amour (P)2013 Random House Audio
The Rider of Lost Creek
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Lance Kilkenny has a debt to pay, and he isn't about to let the friend who saved his life go down in a range war. But when Kilkenny tries to stop the fighting, he finds there's more at stake than land or wire. Whoever is stirring up trouble has big ideas for the Live Oak country - and an army of hired guns to back them up. Nita Riordan, the beautiful and fiery owner of the Apple Canyon Saloon, warns Lance that the mysterious man orchestrating the conflict wants him dead. Lance realizes that if he doesn't watch his step, he'll pay the debt he owes with his own blood.
©1976 Louis & Katherine L'Amour Trust (P)2015 Recorded Books
A Man Called Trent
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A Man Called Trent opens on nester Dick Moffitt lying dead where he was killed by King Bill Hale's riders. His son Jack and adopted daughter Sally, who witnessed the murder, go for safety to a cabin owned by a man called "Trent", an alias for Kilkenny, who is seeking to escape his reputation as a gunfighter.
©1947 Better Publications, Inc. (P)2006 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Too Tough to Kill
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Here is a time when the old west became new - the 1930s-50s - as Louis L'Amour witnessed it first-hand in Southern California before and after World War II. Many people think the age of gunmen, scheming land barons, murderous bad guys, and the determined men who stood up against them, went out with the end of the Old West around the 1890s. But, in L’Amour’s own time in the New West, there were far more bad men toting guns and making grabs for far more wealth and valuable land than in the fabled days of the Old West. And it took far more courage and determination to oppose them in the days of the Tommy Gun and .45 automatic than in those of the six-gun and pump-action rifle. When Louis 'L'Amour finally moved to Los Angeles permanently in the late 1940s, the "Battle of Sunset Strip," an all-out mob war between rival Mafia families for control of the lucrative west Los Angeles/Hollywood gambling and prostitution trade, was at its height. More than 30 gangland killings took place in a seven-year period (including that of the legendary Bugsy Siegel), and more than 100 were said to have been slain during its quarter century span. This war had brought the Old West roaring back into the New - and L’Amour recognized it. He began to write hardboiled crime stories filled with the same kind of stalwart, straight-shooting men, strong, resolute women, and vicious, unprincipled badmen that peopled his westerns. You will find many of the best of these true-to-life tales in this exciting collection of short novels and stories (including “Street of Corpses,” “Anything For a Pal,” and “Collect from a Corpse”), along with others equally tough (“Death, Westbound” and “It's Your Move”) based on L’Amour's own experiences traveling the New West before the war. These are among his least reprinted stories, and we think they will prove a real treat for the author’s multitude of listeners.
©2018 Jean Marie Stine (P)2019 Jean Marie Stine
Bill Carey Rides West - The Town No Guns Could Tame - Bowdrie Rides a Coyote Trail
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"Bill Carey Rides West": Life on an Ohio farm couldn’t hold young Bill Carey. He wanted the adventure he knew waited in the territories to the west. He’d drifted into the outlaw life, and now he found himself holed up on a small farm near the lair of Tabat Ryerson. Ryerson, the man who’d introduced him to cattle rustling and bank robbery, was a cold-blooded killer. On a remote little farm, Carey’s caught between both sides of the law, and he finds a reason for staying alive in a rancher’s pretty daughter. "The Town No Guns Could Tame": Basin City is a place where no respectable citizen feels safe. That’s why three of the town’s foremost businessmen have gone and hired a new marshal. Tomorrow he’ll be in charge of protecting a stagecoach carrying over a quarter million dollars in gold. For Perry, a gunfighter on the run, this job should have turned his life around. Instead, it’s landed him in a peck of trouble. "Bowdrie Rides a Coyote Trail": On the trail of a ruthless killer named Carl Dyson, Ranger Chick Bowdrie finds the body of a rough-riding Californian left to rot in the sun. With the dead man’s horse in tow, Bowdrie ambles into the middle of a dispute between the H&H ranch and the Darcy spread. Seems some H&H hired guns are giving Jack Darcy a hard time...and leading the troublemakers is ranch owner Rack Herman. Will Bowdrie travel far to track down Dyson...or is this killer closer than he thinks?
©1982 Louis L'Amour (P)2013 Random House Audio