“Louis L’Amour was born March 22, 1905, and grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota. To me, he has always been the premier storyteller of the American West. Many of Mr. L’Amour’s Westerns were made into very popular motion pictures. For example, Hondo and Apache Territory. Sadly, he passed away from cancer in June 1988, and a great light was extinguished in the halls of Western literature. Shortly before his death, he was told he had sold more than 200 million books worldwide. Like the late Louis... L’Amour, I ride on every piece of ground I write about as much as I possibly can, and now also do so with Gabriel (Gabe), who is as I said identical to the mount of Joshua Strongheart but was found and bought after Strongheart came out. In that way, you, the reader, get a truer vision of the mountains and valleys, the countryside, the smell of the sagebrush, the heat from the sun baking a rocky canyon, and you hopefully will almost hear the clicking of horses’ hooves on rocks and can escape into my world for a little bit.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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I didn't know that the Union Army then has ay infantry on the frontier. I understood that they were all"mount3ed infantry. Foot soldiers would have been useless against Indians, and would have had no hope of following them as all the Indians were on horseback. Also, regarding Fort Union. The writer says that it contained four companies of both infantry and cavalry. This is somewhat ambiguous, as it could then mean a total of EIGHT companies. The companies at that period were attenuated, often at half strength or less.
Edgar G.2 years ago
Strange, it started out very well, concise, clear, telling a good story, but the last maybe 50-60 pages has developed into a very childish , soppy, kid-stuff romantic piece of garbage. Every ywo minutes the guy is telling the woman, how much he adores and loves her passionately,. And about thet, every time he's described as kissing her, which seems now, all the time, it's always, "passionately". Maybe the writer has run out of ideas. An Irredeemably bad book, and worse piece of very amateurish elementary school grade writing.
Edgar G.2 years ago
More amazing than ever. In 1874, in a small frontier town the people were so well educated that they used terms like "hypothermia", which had not yet come into even eastern college education.
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