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Author of Frontier, Science Fiction and Adventure Stories                          

Selected Works:

Westward the Tide London, - 1950; first US publication - 1976
The Riders of High Rock - 1951
The Rustlers of West Fork - 1951
The Trail to Seven Pines - 1951
Trouble Shooter - 1952
Hondo - 1953 
Showdown at Yellow Butte - 1953
Crossfire Trail - 1954
Heller with a Gun - 1954Kilkenny - 1954
Utah Blaine - 1954
Guns of the Timberlands - 1955
To Tame a Land - 1955
The Burning Hills - 1956
Silver Canyon - 1956
Last Stand at Papago Wells - 1957
Sitka - 1957
The Tall Stranger - 1957
Radigan - 1958
The First Fast Draw - 1959
Taggart - 1959
The Daybreakers - 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
The High Graders - 1965
The Key-Lock Man - 1965
Kiowa Trail - 1965
The Sackett Brand - 1965
The Broken Gun - 1966
Kid Rodelo - 1966
Kilrone - 1966
Mustang Man - 1966 
Matagorda - 1967
The Sky-Liners - 1967
Chancy - 1968
Conagher - 1968

Down the Long Hills - 1968 
The Empty Land - 1969
The Lonely Men - 1969
Galloway - 1970
The Man Called Noon - 1970
Reilly's Luck - 1970
Brionne - 1971
The Ferguson Rifle - 1971
North to the Rails - 1971
Tucker - 1971
Under the Sweetwater Rim - 1971
Callaghen - 1972
Ride the Dark Trail - 1972
The Man from Skibbereen - 1973
The Quick and the Dead - 1973
Treasure Mountain - 1973
The Californios - 1974
Sackett's Land - 1974
Man From the Broken Hills - 1975
Over on the Dry Side - 1975
Rivers West - 1975
The Rider of Lost Creek - 1976
To the Far Blue Mountains - 1976
Where the Long Grass Blows - 1976
Borden Chantry - 1977
Bendigo Shafter - 1978
Fair Blows the Wind - 1978
The Mountain Valley War - 1978
The Iron Marshal - 1979
The Proving Trail - 1979
Lonely on the Mountain - 1980
The Warrior's Path - 1980
Comstock Lode - 1981
Milo Talon - 1981
The Cherokee Trail - 1982
The Shadow Riders - 1982
The Lonesome Gods - 1983
Ride the River - 1983
Son of a Wanted Man - 1984
The Walking Drum - 1984
Jubal Sackett - 1985
Passin' Through - 1985
Last of the Breed - 1986
West of Pilot Range - 1986
A Trail to the West - 1986
The Haunted Mesa - 1987

Sackett series:
In fictional story order not the order written:

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 Aunt to Orrin, Tyrel, and William Tell 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 and Nolan Sackett
The Sackett Brand - William Tell Sackett, and the whole passel of Sacketts!
The Sky-liners - 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, Em Talon born a Sackett 
Lonely on the Mountain - William Tell, Orrin and Tyrel Sackett They go on a mission to help Logan 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 7 other novels:

Bendigo Shafter Ethan Sackett
Dark Canyon William Tell Sackett
Borden Chantry Joe Sackett, killed in ambush that B Chantry solves murder, and Tyrel Sackett
Passin' Through Parmalee Sackett is mentioned as defending a main character in the book
Son of a Wanted Man Tyrel Sackett
Catlow Ben Cowhan marries a cousin of Tyrel Sackett’s wife
Man from the Broken Hills Em Talon a main character in this book was in fact born a Sackett. Mentions William Tell Sackett

Talon and Chantry series:

Borden Chantry
Fair Blows the Wind
The Ferguson Rifle
The Man from the Broken Hills Em Talon was born a Sackett she is the main character's mother.
Milo Talon Is a cousin to the Sacketts through his mother Em Talon 
North to the Rails
Over on the Dry Side
Rivers West

Kilkenny series:

The Rider of Lost Creek - 1976 
The Mountain Valley War - 1978 , which previously been released as a magazine novella, entitled A Man Called Trent and was re-written for the Kilkenny trilogy. A Man Called Trent is included in the short story collection entitled The Rider of the Ruby Hills - 1986 
Kilkenny - 1954 
A Gun for Kilkenny is a short story featuring Kilkenny as a minor character, from the collection Dutchman's Flat - 1986 .
Monument Rock is a novella in the story collection of the same name.

-K.i.D- Valley Sickness

Hopalong Cassidy series: Originally published under the pseudonym "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 
The Strong Shall Live - 1980 
Yondering - 1980; revised edition - 1989 
Buckskin Run - 1981 
Bowdrie - 1983 
The Hills of Homicide - 1983 
Law of the Desert Born - 1983 
Bowdrie's Law - 1984 
Night Over the Solomons - 1986 
The Rider of the Ruby Hills - 1986 
Riding for the Brand - 1986 
The Trail to Crazy Man - 1986 
Dutchman's Flat - 1986 
Lonigan - 1988 
Long Ride Home - 1989 
The Outlaws of Mesquite - 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

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 1
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 2
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 3
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Adventure Stories - Volume 4
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 5
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Crime Stories - Volume 6
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 7
"Trap of Gold"
"The Gift of Cochise"
"The Sixth Shotgun" - September 2005
"Showdown Trail" - March 2007
"Grub Line Rider" - March 2008
"Trailing West" - August 2008
"Big Medicine" - January 2009
"West of the Tularosa" - July 2010

Non-fiction:

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

Film adaptations:

Crossfire Trail, 2001. TV  novel ... aka Louis L'Amour's Crossfire Trail USA . Starring Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, and Wilford Brimley. Directed by Simon Wincer.
The Diamond of Jeru 2001  TV  short story ... aka Louis L'Amour's The Diamond of Jeru USA: complete title 
Shaughnessy - 1996  TV  novel "The Iron Marshal" ... aka Louis L'Amour's Shaughnessy Australia , and, Louis L'Amour's Shaughnessy the Iron Marshal USA: DVD box title 
Conagher - 1991  TV  novel ... aka Louis L'Amour's Conagher, Starring Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross. Directed by Reynaldo Villalobos.
The Quick and the Dead - 1987  HBO TV  novel , Starring Sam Elliott and Kate Capshaw. Directed by Robert Day.
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills - 1986  TV  novel ... aka Down the Long Hills
Five Mile Creek 2 episodes - 1984 
  "Walk Like a Man" - 1984 TV Episode inspiration The Cherokee Trail 
  "When the Kookaburra Cries" - 1984 TV Episode inspiration The Cherokee Trail 
The Shadow Riders - 1982  TV  novel ... aka Louis L'Amour's The Shadow Riders
The Cherokee Trail - 1981  TV  story ... aka Louis L'Amour's The Cherokee Trail USA 
The Sacketts - 1979  TV  novels "The Daybreakers" and "Sackett" ... aka The Daybreakers USA: cut version 
Hombre llamado Noon, Un - 1973  novel ... aka The Man Called Noon Philippines: English title  UK  USA & Lo chiamavano Mezzogiorno Italy 
Cancel My Reservation - 1972  novel The Broken Gun 
Catlow - 1971  novel 
Shalako - 1968  novel ... aka Man nennt mich Shalako West Germany 
Hondo 17 episodes, - 1967 
  "Hondo and the Rebel Hat" - 1967 TV Episode character 
  "Hondo and the Apache Trail" - 1967 TV Episode character 
  "Hondo and the Gladiators" - 1967 TV Episode character 
  "Hondo and the Hanging Town" - 1967 TV Episode character 
  "Hondo and the Death Drive" - 1967 TV Episode character 
Hondo and the Apaches - 1967  TV  story "The Gift of Cochise" 
Kid Rodelo - 1966  novel 
Taggart - 1964  novel 
Guns of the Timberland - 1960  novel 
Heller in Pink Tights, - 1960 film  novel Starring Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren. Directed by George Cukor. Adapted from Heller With a Gun.
Apache Territory - 1958  novel Last Stand at Papago Wells 
The Tall Stranger - 1957  novel Showdown Trail , The Rifle USA and Walk Tall USA: alternative title 
Maverick 1 episode, - 1957 
Stage West - 1957 TV Episode story 
Sugarfoot 1 episode, - 1957 ... aka Tenderfoot UK 
The Strange Land - 1957 TV Episode story 
Utah Blaine - 1957  novel 
The Burning Hills - 1956  novel 
"Flowers for Jenny" - 1956 TV Episode story 
Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado - 1956  novel Kilkenny 
City Detective 1 episode, - 1955 
Man Down, Woman Screaming - 1955 TV Episode story 
Stranger on Horseback - 1955  story 
Climax! 1 episode, - 1955 ... aka Climax Mystery Theater USA 
The Mojave Kid - 1955 TV Episode story 
Treasure of Ruby Hills - 1955  story 
Four Guns to the Border - 1954  story ... aka Shadow Valley USA 
Hondo - 1953  story "The Gift of Cochise" 
East of Sumatra - 1953  story.
                          

The last of seven children born to a veterinarian father and a teacher mother.                          

Family name was originally spelled LaMoore.