Hondo, The Daybreakers, and The Lonesome Gods are all among the very best Western novels written by Louis L'Amour.

Louis L’Amour, the "laureate of the lariat," was born on this day in history, March 22, 1908. A veteran of World War II, L’Amour worked as an elephant handler, miner, merchant seaman, animal skinner, ...

The short story is the bread and butter of the Western genre. Plenty of classic Western films—such as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 3:10 to Yuma, and Rio Bravo, to name a few—were adapted from ...

They always had men on the front cover. Tall, handsome, rugged men — their rifles slung across the saddle, looking towards the dusty green, burnt sienna buttes of Colorado or New Mexico. My uncle ...

Louis L'Amour was the king of western novels, and many of his books and short stories have been adapted into classic movies. Across a four-decade career, L'Amour crafted dozens of novels and stories ...

Three years after the publication of her admirable Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, Jenkins returns to southern Europe, this time mapping a narrower locale. The dishes she finds in the ""heel of Italy's ...

On Thanksgiving, the family of one of America’s most prolific novelists and chroniclers of the Western frontier — the late Louis L’Amour — sat down to dinner at their Spanish-colonial spread in Los ...