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Title: Down the Long Hills by LOUIS L'AMOUR ISBN: 0-553-28081-3 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: L'Amour's only Golden Spur Award winner
Comment: I was surprised to see a rating average of only 4 and a half stars on this one. This is the only book for which L'Amour ever won a Golden Spur Award from Western Writers of America! It is definitely different from anything else he ever wrote, and a great coup, I thought. I usually don't give any L'Amour's more than three stars, but this one sure deserved it. It kept to L'Amour's trademark of no sex, no graphic violence, and little cursing, and I like that a lot. For that reason, if you like L'Amour you just have to read all of the books by the author critics are calling The New Louis L'Amour, Kirby Jonas. He is tremendous, and may one day even replace L'AMour. L'Amour was always my favorite, but Jonas has edged him out. You have to read this guy!
Rating: 5
Summary: ONE OF L'AMOUR'S BEST
Comment: DOWN THE LONG HILLS is a story of courage, passion and drive and who cares if the hero in question is but seven years old. Good literature was never about strict adherence to historical or physical fact. We usually call those history or science, respectively.
No, in this book L'Amour seems to let his confident writing skills and his imagination run free. He asks the reader to imagine what would happen if a frontier-trained lad, Hardy Collins, was forced to make his way cross country with nothing more than a three-year-old girl, Betty Sue Powell, a wonderful, almost magical horse, Big Red and a head filled with the knowledge gained from working side-by-side with a loving but tough western father, Scott Collins.
Together, Hardy, Betty Sue and Big Red brave everything from the weather to a grizzly to scummy horse thieves, all the while being tracked by a Cheyenne brave who wants this horse of horses. The story flows extremely well culminating in a classic L'Amour showdown.
A great western for the entire family.
And if you ever get a chance to see the movie of the same title you'll love it too. It's about as faithful an adaptation to an original book as I have ever seen.
Douglas McAllister
Rating: 1
Summary: HISTORIAN MY FOOT
Comment: I don't buy Comanches on the Oregon Trail. I don't buy two kids as the lone survivors of a Comanche massacre of a wagon train on the Oregon Trail, who have to travel west for hundreds of miles from the scene alone to make it with a big stud horse to find the boy's Pa at Ft. Bridger. I don't buy the boy's father trying to find them and following tracks of a horse where the horse hasn't yet trod. I don't buy the two kids not finding a soul on the deserted Oregon Trail because it's late in the year. Someone rode that trail often, day and night every day of the year, over every foot of the trail, from the time it was opened, either Army, or civilian travel was constant. This is malarkey by a man who had a reputation as a historian based on reader ignorance, not his own knowledge. That and PR hype.
Sorry, this is baloney and so are most of his other books and stories. For example, Hondo, where his reputation as a "historian" was first born in a PR conference. In Hondo it is obvious that Looie first wrote just a book, set roughly in the never-never land of traditional Westerns. When his promoting geniuses tried to make it over into a historial tour de force, they fell on their faces, and did him no favor so far as reputation went. Bank account is something else.
I recall standing in my back yard while my horse shoer stopped and spit tobacco juice and said, "I was readin' Hondo last night. It's fairly obvious that when he said "there was no water between Lordsburg and the Fort, he meant Ft. Huachuca over there. What did he think that is over there behind me?" He motioned toward the nearby San Pedro River. "It's sure as hell between Lordsburg and the fort. And get this: this clown is carryin' a forty pound saddle across the supposedly waterless desert. What the hell for? You wouldn't make a mile with a saddle. But is sure looked good in the picture on the cover of the book. If they called this guy Looie Manure they'd come closer to the truth. I threw the damn book in the wastebasket."
Looie was a good old boy who wrote an interesting story, and I don't begrudge him his readership any more tahn I begrudge fast good joints their customers who may not even know what a five star restaurant is, or care, but let's not take that historian" business too seriously.
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Title: Catlow by Louis L'Amour ISBN: 0553247670 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Brionne by LOUIS L'AMOUR ISBN: 0553281070 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Under the Sweetwater Rim by Louis L'Amour ISBN: 0553247603 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Broken Gun by Louis L'Amour ISBN: 0553248472 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Borden Chantry by Louis L'Amour ISBN: 0553278630 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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