Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour (left) and Ronald Reagan , 1983

Louis L'Amour (born March 22, 1908 in Jamestown , North Dakota ; † June 10, 1988 in Los Angeles ; real name is Louis Dearborn LaMoore ) was an American writer who became known worldwide primarily for his Western novels. He also wrote under the pen name Tex Burns.

Life

L'Amour's grave in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park

L'Amour dropped out of school in 1923 and earned a living doing odd jobs until 1942, during which time he worked in the United States and Asia , as well as on the high seas. He published his first poetry in the 1930s and his first short story in 1939. From 1946 he wrote more and more stories that were settled in the western genre. In 1950 he published his first novel under the pen name Tex Burns. He wrote after the success of his novel The Gift of Cochise , which was filmed under the title They call me Hondo , between 1953 and 1988 more than 100 western novels. His novels have been translated into over 30 languages. In total, more than 260 million copies were sold.

On July 10, 1988, L'Amour died at the age of 80 of complications from lung cancer .

Works

Most of Louis L'Amour's novels were translated into German for the paperback book publishers' western series (Heyne, Bastei Lübbe, Goldmann). Some books have been published several times under different titles. The trend of the times is also reflected in the choice of the book title. People appear more frequently in some novels, and the author later planned to revise his family saga about the British Sackett family. But he never got around to that.

The most famous western novels in alphabetical order of the original title:

• Bendigo Shafter - Bendigo Shafter (Sackett Saga)
• Borden Chantry - Sacketts Must Die (Sackett Saga)
• Bowdrie - Bowdrie
• Bowdrie's law - Bowdrie's law
• Brionne - Brionne
• Buckskin run - ghost rider
• Callaghen - Callaghen
• Callaghen - The golden river
• Catlow - Zwei Freunde (Sackett-Saga) (made into a film with Yul Brynner , Daliah Lavi and Leonard Nimoy as Catlow - Leben ums Verrecken )
• Chancy - Trail Boss (Sackett Saga)
• Cherokee Trail - Cherokee Trail
• Comstock lode - silver in Virginia City
• Conagher - Then came Conagher
• Crossfire trail - Crossfire Trail (filmed with Tom Selleck as The Ritt Home )
• Crossfire trail - hot lead for Caradec
• Crossfire trail - Die lonely, stranger
• Dark Canyon - Five Partners (Sackett Saga)
• Down the long hills - Alone in the wilderness (filmed with Bruce Boxleitner , Jack Elam as The Decision on Long Hill )
• Fallon - The Last Game
• Flint - His name was Flint
• Galloway - Run or Die (Sackett Saga)
• Guns of the Timberlands - The Handle of Steel (filmed with Alan Ladd , Noah Beery when He came, saw and conquered )
• Hanging Woman Creek - Freezing Blood
• Heller with a gun - King Mabry (made into a film with Anthony Quinn , Sophia Loren , Steve Forrest as The Lady and the Killer )
• Heller with a gun - the saddle tramp
• High lonesome - A woman for $ 60,000
• Hondo - Hondo (filmed in 1953 with John Wayne , James Arness as They Call Me Hondo and 1967 as a TV series)
• How the west was won - That was the wild west (filmed with John Wayne , James Stewart and many more as That was the wild west )
• Jubal Sackett - Jubal Sackett (Sackett Saga)
• Kid Rodelo - A Man Like Kid Rodelo (filmed with Don Murray , Janet Leigh as A Man Like Kid Rodelo )
• Kilkenny - Kilkenny
• Killoe - Killoe
• Kilrone - Kilrone, the indomitable
• Kiowa Trail - Kiowa Trail
• Lando - Lando (Sackett Saga)
• Last stand at Papago Wells - The Hell of Papago Wells
• Last stand at Papago Wells - The last of Papago Wells
• Last stand at papago wells - The fortress in the desert
• Law of the desert born - The law of the desert
• Lonely on the Mountain - A Sackett rarely comes alone (Sackett Saga)
• Lonely on the Mountain - With the Sacketts to the North (Sackett Saga)
• Man from the Broken Hills - (Sackett Saga)
• Matagorda - Bloody feud
• Matagorda - Death Stampede
• Milo Talon - Milo Talon
• Mojave Crossing - Thirsty Desert (Sackett Saga)
• Mustang Man - A Sackett keeps its word (Sackett Saga)
• Mustang Man - Gold in the desert sand (Sackett-Saga)
• Mustang Man - Mustang Man (Sackett Saga)
• North to the rails - vultures above the herd
• Over on the dry side - The secret of the foreign
• Passin 'Through - The Stranger with the Fast Colt (Sackett Saga)
• Radigan - No place for Radigan
• Reilly's luck - The luck of the damned
• Ride the Dark Trail - riders on a dark trail (Sackett saga)
• Ride the River (Sackett saga)
• Rivers west - decision on the river
• Sackett - Sackett (Sackett Saga)
• Sackett's Land - A Sackett does not give up (Sackett-Saga)
• Shalako - Shalako (filmed with Sean Connery , Brigitte Bardot , Peter Van Eyck as Shalako )
• Showdown at Yellow Butte - With the devil in league
• Showdown at Yellow Butte - The Vultures
• Silver Canyon - The game for power
• Silver Canyon - Horsemen in the Twilight
• Sitka - Sitka
• Son of a wanted man - Outlaw trail (Sackett saga)
• Taggart - Taggart (made into a film with Tony Young , Dan Duryea , David Carradine as Taggart )
• The broken gun - Too tough to die
• The burning hills
• The Californios - The vultures are waiting
• The Courting of Griselda (Sackett Saga)
• The Daybreakers - The Last Showdown (Sackett Saga) (filmed with Tom Selleck , Sam Elliott , Glenn Ford as Die Sacketts )
• The empty land - the land of lonely men
• The Ferguson rifle - The Stranger's Rifle
• The first fast draw - The fast hand
• The high graders - golden hyenas
• The high graders - gold fever
• The hills of homicide
• The iron marshal - The iron marshal
• The key-lock man - die in the saddle
• The Lonely Men (Sackett saga)
• The lonesome gods
• The man called Noon - Die goldene Ranch (filmed with Richard Crenna as Der Mann aus El Paso )
• The man from Skibbereen
• The mountain valley war - Kilkenny shoots back
• The proving trail - the killers in the black coats
• The quick and the dead (filmed with Sam Elliott , Kate Capshaw as the path of violence )
• The rider of Lost Creek - Kilkenny rides again
• The Sackett Brand - Das Brandmal (Sackett Saga)
• The shadow riders - Die Schattenreiter (filmed with Tom Selleck , Sam Elliott , Ben Johnson as Die Schattenreiter )
• The Sky-liners - Die Sackett - Boys (Sackett-Saga)
• The tall stranger - Rock Bannon, man of granite
• The tall Stranger
• The walking drum - Kerbouchard, the corsair's son
• The Warrior's Path (Sackett Saga)
• To tame a land - hunters without mercy
• To the Far Blue Mountains - Mortal Enemies (Sackett saga)
• Treasure Mountain (Sackett Saga)
• Treasure Mountain - The Sacketts Ride Again (Sackett Saga)
• Tucker - three on a bloody trail
• Under the Sweetwater Rim
• Utah Blaine - Utah Blaine
• Westward the tide - Alluring gold
• Where the long grass blows - blood on the pasture
• Yondering - In the face of death
• Works under the pseudonym Tex Burns,
• the Hopalong Cassidy series:
• The Rustlers of West Fork (Die Ranch am West Fork) - Dörner's Classic Western 1954
• The Trail to Seven Pines (In the Shadow of the Loop) - Dörner's Classic Western 1954
• The Riders of High Rock - Dörner's Classic Western 1954
• Trouble Shooter (The Black Riders) - Dörner's Classic Western 1954
• Volumes 1-4 are by the author and creator of the series Clarence A. Mulford.
• Volumes 5-8 (only these eight have been published by Dörner) by Tex Burns.

Web links

• Louis L'Amour in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Louis L'Amour in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louis L'Amour, Writer, Is Dead; Famed Chronicler of West Was 80 , nytimes.com
2. ↑ Louis L'Amour Dies; Prolific Western Writer , latimes.