The Biggest LouisLAmour Bargain Ever! Four Complete Western Novels For Just $3.99!

Four full-length novels by the king of western tales, Louis L'Amour, reprinted from his original magazine versions before his paperback publishers demanded changes.

This quartet contains four of Louis L'Amour's earliest novels, books that earned him an enviable reputation as the best western writer since Zane Grey and Max Brand. They helped pave the way for the phenomenal success and career that made him a household name.

RIDERS OF THE DAWN - When gunman Matt Sabre tries to make peace he finds the only way is through the liberal use of gunsmoke.

LIT A SHUCK FOR TEXAS - A collection of the early Western tales that drew on his own intimate knowledge of the frontier. Men and women fighting to build a life in a lawless world.

TRAIL TO CRAZY MAN - Honor leads Rafe Caradec into deadly danger against the greatest odds he has ever faced

SHOWDOWN TRAIL - Only the lone rider they hate can save a wagon train from destruction.Filmed as The Tall Stranger with Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo and Michael Ansara.

The biggest bargain in L'Amour books ever.

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From L'Amour Pulp Magazine Novel "Showdown Trail" to Joel McCrea Film "The Tall Stranger"

Buckskin Westerns is proud to have unearthed Louis L'Amour's original pulp magazine version of Showdown Trail. When L'Amour's agent sold film rights to the movies, L'Amour offered to novelize it for Fawcett Gold Medal Books, a prominent paperback publisher of the era who had published the novelization of Hondo which had proved a bestseller for them. Then, as now, a movie meant a strong paperback sale for any book. Many fans believe the taut magazine versions of his novels are the best. You can see for yourself by reading the Buckskin Editions reprint of Showdown Trail, which was first published in Giant Western magazine Winter 1948.

Click here to buy Showdown Trail at Amazon, only $4.99. 

The lengthened paperback version, titled after the filmscript, The

Tall Stranger, starred the superb western star, Joel McCrea, who seems born to have played the kind of hero L'Amour loved to write. The first paperback editions contained photographs from the film on the covers. But later ones featured paintings focusing on the story's protagonist, Ned Bannon, the tall stranger of the title. 

The film is considered one of the finest western movies of its time. And no wonder, in addition to McCrea it featured Virginia Mayo, Michael Ansara, John Mitchum, and Whitt Bissel, while the screenplay was by no less a literary light than Christopher Knopf. 

The Tall Stranger has a 4.5 star rating at Amazon. The plot concerns Bannon, a Union officer wounded in battle, who joins up

with a wagon train heading westward. He is ostracized by those passengers who'd fought on the Confederate side, though leading lady Virginia Mayo welcomes his presence. Bannon redeems himself in the eyes of the ex-Confederate homesteaders when he acts as mediator in a range dispute with a land baron, who turns out to be Bannon's  half brother. 



 

 Click here to buy the pulp novel Showdown Trail by Louis L'Amour - the original inspiration for the movie The Tall Stranger at Amazon, only $4.99.