End of the Drive (Sacketts)

From novels to short stories Louis L’Amour spins a great tale. Other authors of similar genre may hold the reader’s focus but the details of the country side cannot be dismissed as the reader is transported into each scene.

Like all other books I have read of Louis L’amour. I am a big fan I have all his books. So I am never disappointed. If you are a fan and you read sachets then continue

I was pleased to rediscover Louis L'Amour again. Generally, I prefer modern westerns, and haven't read any LL for a long time. Partly, I set him aside because he wrote so, so much... and after awhile you get to feeling awash in one single writer. But on the other hand, he's a guaranteed product, and after having been awash way too many times in mediocre western genre fiction, it's good to come back to the tried and true. Whether you're an LL fan, or just love western genre in general, this is worth reading.

I wanted to put a 5 star and it only let me put 4 stars He deserved a 5 star

Super fast , brand new, definitely recommend.

This is a good book because my husband loves this author. But the lost stories never before published is incorrect, as my husband had already read most of these.

One of the greatest western writers we have ever had bar none.. Read ALL his books at least TWICE,, used to own ALL his books, replacing them slowly,, this was for a best friend who loves westerns as much as I do.. Like western,, NOT dumb 'adult' western trash (those guys are sleazy hacks who write sex book and call it a western who couldn't load a six gun if life depended on it (dead while trying to swing out the cylinder on their single action sixgun to reload). these are fine short stories.. some were from western mags,, some turn into novels (though not specifying this book, just L'Amour's short story) davzway

I'm a lover of short story collections though, to be fair, this is a collection of seven short stories and one novella. My biggest complaint is printing typos; a good editor should've caught them. L'Amour gets a lot of beef for using stereotypical ethnic tropes, particularly in regards to Native Americans, but I know there's a big difference between a Hollywood Indian and a real Native American and I expect other readers, with exception to the very young, to also know the difference. L'Amour played with the tools of the trade that were available to him. He wrote these books in a time when ethnicity wasn't emphasized (or sometimes erased) by the arts industry and L'Amour still found small ways to work in real information about Native Americans. For instance - Hollywood gave us the image of an Indian greeting -with no specification to tribe- by saying how and bobbing a hand over the mouth. In this book, L'Amour works in the correct way to use the Lakota greeting hau kola, "how kola," with no hand bobbing. His predecessors most certainly did not attempt this so L'Amour may have played a role in breaking those stereotypes within the arts community. He also preserves some of the atrocities that have been done to ethnic groups. You have only to read his books to see what Native Americans are talking about when they discuss persecution and I wish these books were more often utilized as a tool for that means.

It was great

I am in the process of trying to read ALL his books , what a wonderful way to read every word every day.

Great light reading.

Great reading - nice to have brand new copy of classic Louis L’Amour. If you are a fan of Westerns, you’ll enjoy his books, and there’s lots of them.

I've read some of these stories before but these were the originals. Good read.