Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour, pseudônimo de Louis Dearborn LaMoore (Jamestown (Dacota do Norte), 22 de março de 1908 – Los Angeles, 10 de junho de 1988) foi um escritor de ficção norte-americano, principalmente histórias de faroeste.

Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour Louis L’Amour e Ronald Reagan, 1983
Nome completo	Louis Dearborn L'Amour
Pseudônimo(s)	Louis L'Amour
Nascimento	22 de março de 1908 Jamestown (Dacota do Norte), Estados Unidos
Morte	10 de junho de 1988 (80 anos) Los Angeles, Estados Unidos
Nacionalidade	norte-americano
Ocupação	Escritor
Prémios	Medalha Presidencial da Liberdade (1984)
Magnum opus	Um Homem na Pradaria

Obras

Romances

(incluindo colecções de romances)

• Westward the Tide (London, 1950; primeira publicação nos EUA 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 (1954)
• Kilkenny (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) (vencedor do Golden Spur Award)
• 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)
• The 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)
• Fair Blows the Wind (1978)
• The Mountain Valley War (1978)
• Bendigo Shafter (1979)
• 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 Audio (1986)
• Last of the Breed (1987)
• The Haunted Mesa (1987)

Colecção Sackett

Pela ordem das histórias ficcionais (não pela ordem pelo qual foram escritas).

1. Sackett's Land – Barnabas Sackett
2. To the Far Blue Mountains – Barnabas Sackett
3. The Warrior's Path – Kin Ring Sackett
4. Jubal Sackett – Jubal Sackett, Itchakomi Ishai
5. Ride the River – Echo Sackett (Aunt to Orrin, Tyrel, and William Tell Sackett)
6. The Daybreakers – Orrin and Tyrel Sackett, Cap Rountree, Tom Sunday
7. Lando – Orlando Sackett, the Tinker
8. Sackett – William Tell Sackett, Cap Rountree, Angie
9. Mojave Crossing – William Tell Sackett
10. The Sackett Brand – William Tell Sackett, and the whole passel of Sacketts!
11. The Sky-liners – Flagan and Galloway Sackett
12. The Lonely Men – William Tell Sackett
13. Mustang Man – Nolan Sackett
14. Galloway – Galloway and Flagan Sackett
15. Treasure Mountain – William Tell and Orrin Sackett, the Tinker
16. Ride the Dark Trail – Logan Sackett, Em Talon (born a Sackett)
17. Lonely on the Mountain – William Tell, Orrin and Tyrel Sackett (They go on a mission to help Logan Sackett)

Existem também dois contos relacionados com Sackett:

• The Courting of Griselda (disponível em End of the Drive)
• Booty for a Badman (publicado originalmente no Saturday Evening Post de 30 de Julho de 1960; available in War Party)

Os Sacketts estão também envolvidos are no enredo de outros 7 romances:

• 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)

Romances Talon

• Rivers West
• The Man from the Broken Hills (Em Talon nasceu Sackett. Ela é a mãe da personagem principal.)
• Milo Talon (É um primo dos Sacketts através da sua mãe, Em Talon)

Romances Chantry

• Fair Blows the Wind (o primeiro Chantry)
• The Ferguson Rifle
• Borden Chantry
• North to the Rails (Tom Chantry, filho de Borden Chantry)
• Over on the Dry Side

Colecção Kilkenny

• The Rider of Lost Creek (1976), expandido a partir do conto publicado na edição de Abril de 1947 da West magazine, sob o pseudónimo de "Jim Mayo".
• A Man Called Trent (1946)
• The Mountain Valley War (1978), expandido da novella A Man Called Trent, publicada originalmente na edição de Dezembro de 1947 da West magazine, também sob o pseudónimo de "Jim Mayo". A Man Called Trent is included in the short story collection The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986)
• Kilkenny (1954)
• A Gun for Kilkenny é um conto com Kilkenny como uma personagem menor, da colectânea Dutchman's Flat (1986).
• Monument Rock é uma novella na colectânea de histórias com o mesmo nome.

Colecção Hopalong Cassidy

Originally published under the pseudonym "Tex Burns". Louis L'Amour was commissioned to write four Hopalong Cassidy books in the spring and summer of 1950 by Doubleday's Double D Western imprint. They were the first novels he ever had published and he denied writing them until the day he died, refusing to sign any of them that fans would occasionally bring to his autograph sessions. His reason to his young son for doing this was, "I wrote some books. I just did it for the money, and my name didn't go on them. So now, when people ask me if they were mine, I say no." When his son asked if this was not lying he said, "I just wrote them for hire. They weren't my books."

• The Rustlers of West Fork
• The Trail to Seven Pines
• The Riders of High Rock
• Trouble Shooter

Colectâneas de contos

• War Party (1975)
• The Strong Shall Live (1980)
• Yondering (1980; edição revista 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 – ISBN 0-8439-5580-5
• Showdown Trail – March 2007 – ISBN 0-8439-5786-7
• Grub Line Rider – March 2008 – ISBN 0-8439-6065-5
• Trailing West – August 2008 – ISBN 0-8439-6067-1
• Big Medicine – January 2009 – ISBN 0-8439-6068-X
• West of the Tularosa – July 2010 – ISBN 978-0-8439-6410-3

Não-ficção

• Education of a Wandering Man
• Frontier
• The Sackett Companion
• A Trail of Memories: The Quotations of Louis L'Amour (compilado por Angelique L'Amour)

Poesia

• Smoke From This Altar

Compilações com outros autores

• The Golden West
• Stagecoach

Ver também

Referências

Ligações externas

• Louis L'Amour at the Internet Name Database