Louis L'Amour's Desert Tales
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Narrated by:
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Stefan Rudnicki
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By:
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Louis L'Amour
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In "Desert Death Song", Nat Bodine is given a choice: to die by hanging or take his chances in the desert. But when a good woman believes in a man, he finds the will to survive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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In a word--GREAT!!!!!
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Riders of the Dawn
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5 out of 5 stars
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know before you buy
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 225
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- By: Louis L’Amour
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 361
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 321
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Story5 out of 5 stars 322
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5 out of 5 stars
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In a word--GREAT!!!!!
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- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Jim Gough
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 929
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 806
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 802
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5 out of 5 stars
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By: Louis L'Amour
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- A Novel
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,573
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,977
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,965
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Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness of cattle drives.
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consistent
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Tom Kedrick is hired by a financial syndicate to run off a gang of vagrants and outlaws who are occupying a sizable strip of land that the syndicate has filed, claiming it is unusable swamp. To Kedrick's dismay, these "vagrants and outlaws" turn out to be hard working ranchers and farmers who have improved the lands they have claimed and are determined to resist any effort to disenfranchise them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Vintage L'Amour
- By Gary B. Lamph on 12-28-11
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Trailing West
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 379
No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the humanside of westward expansion - the good and the bad - before the days of law and order. Collected here are six stories penned by America's favorite Western author.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short great stories
- By Marcia on 03-02-24
By: Louis L'Amour
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West of the Tularosa
- By: Jon Tuska, Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Tom Weiner
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 540
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 487
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 478
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 eight of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories - history that lives forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a nice change of pace
- By Dee Z on 05-29-24
By: Jon Tuska, and others
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Kid Rodelo
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 158
To get fifty thousand dollars in gold across fifty miles of desert, the desperate band quickly learns how much they need each other - and how deep their greed and suspicion can run. At the end of the journey lie the waters of Baja and a new life in Mexico, but first they have to survive the savage heat, bounty-hunting Yaqui Indians, and the shifting, treacherous nature of both the desert sands and their own conflicting loyalties.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Desart Trip.
- By Thomas D. Shenk on 01-11-20
By: Louis L'Amour
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The Strong Land
- A Western Sextet
- By: Louis L’Amour, Jon Tuska - editor
- Narrated by: Traber Burns, Jim Meskimen, Mark Bramhall
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 832
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 759
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Story5 out of 5 stars 745
Louis L'Amour was the most decorated author in the history of American letters and a recipient of the Medal of Freedom. Now collected here in a single book are several of Louis L'Amour's finest Western stories the way Mr. L'Amour wrote them. At the time Louis L'Amour was writing, it was common practice for editors to rewrite the manuscript to fit certain publishing criteria. The text of The Strong Land has been restored, and the stories within it appear as Mr. L'Amour intended.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It was a big country needing big men!
- By RJ on 01-17-22
By: Louis L’Amour, and others
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High Lonesome
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: David Strathairn
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 452
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 372
Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon...and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her stubborn father, hell-bent on traveling alone through Apache territory to a new life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Expected From Louis L'Amour
- By Lady M on 05-30-16
By: Louis L'Amour
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Law of the Desert
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 353
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 347
No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion - the good and the bad - before the days of law and order. Collected here are seven stories penned by America's favorite Western author.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun Read
- By Jean on 07-30-15
By: Louis L'Amour
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Riders of the Dawn
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Jim Gough
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 689
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 604
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 603
In Riders of the Dawn, a young gunslinger is changed for the better by a meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic range-war western, this novel features that powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision of the American West for which L'Amour's fiction is known. In the author's words: "It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Louis L'Amour
- By Lady M on 10-30-12
By: Louis L'Amour
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Big Country, Volume 3
- Stories of Louis L’Amour
- By: Louis L’Amour
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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 five more of L’Amour’s fine short stories about the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 Louis L'Amour Short Stories
- By Lady M on 10-09-12
By: Louis L’Amour
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The Rider of the Ruby Hills
- A Western Duo
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Jim Gough
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 470
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 433
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 429
A collection of two stories by beloved Western writer Louis L'Amour. In "The Sixth Shotgun", Leo Carver has been sentenced to hang for holding up a stage, killing the driver and the guard, and stealing the gold they were transporting. He is convicted despite his protests of innocence, but questions soon arise over what really happened. "The Rider of the Ruby Hills" is the story of Ross Haney, who rides into Ruby Hills country hoping to settle down. What he finds is an intense rivalry between the two big ranches and a rustler who is taking full advantage of the situation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Old Fashioned Good vs Evil
- By Jim Fletcher on 11-20-20
By: Louis L'Amour
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West of Dodge (Dramatized)
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story5 out of 5 stars 85
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 senorita'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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truthful recount of what was happening then.
- By Byron Marsh on 04-28-25
By: Louis L'Amour
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- Louis G Stephens
- 03-24-21
I want a time machine.
I love his writing style. He paints great mental images. The discription of the land is amazing.
I want to live in these romantic views of the old west. I'm very glad I found his writing and I plan on listening to many more of his stores.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- StimpyUEediot
- 12-16-21
Kinda short
There is two stories in this book and they are not very deep as far as a story goes.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 11-14-22
Strong Men
Like the perseverance, determination, and strong will to serieve that keeps a man going when it is tough.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- happyjo
- 09-25-21
Louis L'Amour's Desert Tales
I am loving this author's western stories. They remind me of the western tv shows that I used to watch when I was a kid, 60 years ago.
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- RJ
- 12-13-21
But for the red-spotted toad!
Death Song
But for the red-spotted toad!
Matt Bodine was being hunted for a stagecoach robbery. Pete Daily was the only witness and swore it was Bodine. Daily never did like Bodine since he won the hand of Mary Callahan whom Daily liked. The posse came to arrest Bodine but he shot the sheriff and now hid out in Desert the rough Powder Basin country. The desert to the west was the only path for escape. Would he make it across?
Law of the Desert
They had it coming!
Chad Marone was on the losing side of a cattle war in the Black River country. They hunted him relentlessly, and Lopez the tracker, was a ferocious killer. Marone slipped on his moccasins and went to the desert to lose them. Marone remembered what the Navaho had told him. Lopez knew the same from his Apache mother.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Chris
- 04-07-21
Standard western fare
Two short, and I mean short, stories about men wrongfully pursued across the unforgiving desert. Nothing too special, but worth a listen if you’re a western fan.
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