Although Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) is best remembered for his Western novels, his vast and varied life experiences made him a prolific author covering several genres. He immersed himself in travel and research for his novels and stories, and was never shy about adding historical notes and context to the yarns he wrote. Many of his novels are short and action-packed, but his oftentimes-flawed heroes inevitably make the slow trek back from near death to ultimate victory, assuring readers that when the going gets tough, the tough react with fists swinging and guns a-blazing.
Louis L’Amour has published at least 238 stories in these 37 collections, covering a wide range of topics from the Westerns we all know and love to crime stories and adventure stories from the WWII era. It seems that he waited decades to compile them, and his son Beau continued the tradition following his father’s death.
- War Party (1975)
- The Strong Shall Live (1980)
- Yondering (1980; revised edition 1989)
- Buckskin Run (1981)
- Bowdrie (1983)
- The Hills of Homicide (1983)
- Law of the Desert Born (1983)
- Bowdrie’s Law (1984)
- Night Over the Solomons (1986)
- The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986)
- Riding for the Brand (1986)
- The Trail to Crazy Man (1986)
- Dutchman’s Flat (1986)
- Man Riding West (1986)
- Lonigan (1988)
- Long Ride Home (1989)
- The Outlaws of Mesquite (1990)
- West from Singapore (1991)
- Valley of the Sun (1995)
- West of Dodge (1996)
- End of the Drive (1997)
- Monument Rock (1998)
- Beyond the Great Snow Mountains (1999)
- Off the Mangrove Coast (2000)
- May There Be a Road (2001)
- With These Hands (2002)
- From the Listening Hills (2003)
- The Frontier Stories – Volume 1 (2003)
- The Frontier Stories – Volume 2 (2004)
- The Frontier Stories – Volume 3 (2005)
- The Adventure Stories – Volume 4 (2005)
- The Frontier Stories – Volume 5 (2007)
- The Crime Stories – Volume 6 (2008)
- The Frontier Stories– Volume 7 (2009)
- The Man from Battle Flat (2010)
- Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures, Volume 1 (2017)
- Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures, Volume 2 (2019)
Click here to see all 238 of Louis L’Amour’s short stories in alphabetical order.
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War Party (1975)
- “Trap of Gold”
- “One for the Pot”
- “War Party”
- “Get Out of Town”
- “Booty for a Badman”
- “The Gift of Cochise”
- “A Mule for Santa Fe”
- “Alkali Basin”
- “Men to Match the Hills”
- “The Defense of Sentinel”
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The Strong Shall Live (1980)
- “The Strong Shall Live”
- “The One Night Stand”
- “Trail to Squaw Springs”
- “Merrano of the Dry Country”
- “The Romance of Puite Bill”
- “Hattan’s Castle”
- “Duffy’s Man”
- “Big Man”
- “The Marshall of Sentinel”
- “Bluff Creek Station”
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Yondering (1980; revised 1989)
- “Where There’s Fighting”
- “The Dancing Kate”
- “By the Ruins of El Walarieh” (added to 1989 edition)
- “Glorious! Glorious!”
- “Dead-End Drift”
- “Old Doc Yak”
- “Survival”
- “And Proudly Die” (added to 1989 edition)
- “Show Me the Way to Go Home” (added to 1989 edition)
- “Thicker Than Blood”
- “The Admiral”
- “Shanghai, Not Without Gestures”
- “The Man Who Stole Shakespeare”
- “A Friend of the General”
- “Author’s Tea”
- “So You Want Adventure, Do You”? (added to 1989 edition; an article written during WWII)
- “Let Me Forget…”
- “The Moon of the Tree Broken by Snow” (removed from 1989 edition)
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Buckskin Run (1981)
- “The Ghosts of Buckskin Run”
- “No Trouble for the Cactus Kid”
- “Horse Heaven”
- “Squatters on the Lone Tree”
- “Jackson of Horntown”
- “There’s Always a Trail”
- “Down the Pogonip Trail”
- “What Gold Does to a Man”
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Bowdrie (1983)
- “A Job for a Ranger”
- “Bowdrie Follows a Cold Trail”
- “Bowdrie Passes Through”
- “A Trail to the West”
- “More Brains Than Bullets”
- “Too Tough to Brand”
- “The Killer from the Pecos”
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The Hills of Homicide (1983)
- “The Impossible Murder”
- “Until Midnight”
- “Trouble Stop”
- “Unguarded Moment”
- “Henry Willard”
- “With Death in His Corner”
- “The Street of Lost Corpses”
- “Stay Out of My Nightmare”
- “Boom Days Boom Again”
- “Collect from a Corpse”
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Law of the Desert Born (1983)
- “Law of the Desert Born”
- “Riding On”
- “The Black Rock Coffin Makers”
- “Desert Death Song”
- “Ride, You Tonto Raiders!”
- “One Last Gun Notch”
- “Death Song of the Sombrero”
- “The Guns Talk Loud”
- “Grub Line Rider”
- “The Marshall of Painted Rock”
- “Trap of Gold”
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Bowdrie’s Law (1984)
- “McNelly Knows a Ranger”
- “Where Buzzards Fly”
- “Case Closed—No Prisoners”
- “Down Sonora Way”
- “The Road to Casa Piedras”
- “A Ranger Rides to Town”
- “South of Deadwood”
- “The Outlaws of Poplar Creek”
- “Rain on the Mountain Fork”
- “Strange Pursuit”
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Night Over the Solomons (1986)
- “Night Over the Solomons”
- “Mission to Siberut”
- “Pirates with Wings”
- “Tailwind to Tibet”
- “The Goose Flies South”
- “Wings over Khabarovsk”
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The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986)
- “The Rider of the Ruby Hills”
- “Showdown Trail”
- “A Man Called Trent”
- “The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon”
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Riding for the Brand (1986)
- “Riding for the Brand”
- “A Strong Land Growing”
- “The Turkeyfeather Riders”
- “The Nester and the Piute”
- “Barney Takes a Hand”
- “Man Riding West”
- “Fork Your Own Broncs”
- “Home in the Valley”
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The Trail to Crazy Man (1986)
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Dutchman’s Flat (1986)
- “Dutchman’s Flat”
- “Keep Travelin’ Rider”
- “Trail to Pie Town”
- “Mistakes Can Kill You”
- “Big Medicine”
- “Man From Battle Flat”
- “West of the Tularosas”
- “McQueen of the Tumbling K”
- “The One for the Mohave Kid”
- “The Lion Hunter and the Lady”
- “A Gun for Kilkenny”
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Man Riding West (1986)
- “Big Medicine”
- “Man Riding West”
- “His Brother’s Debt”
- “Four Card Draw”
- “Keep Travelin’, Rider”
- “Dutchman’s Flat”
- “The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon”
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Lonigan (1988)
- “Lonigan”
- “Regan of the Slash B”
- “Heritage of Hate”
- “Rowdy Rides to Glory”
- “Pardner from the Rio”
- “Bill Carey Rides West”
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Long Ride Home (1989)
- “The Cactus Kid Pays a Debt”
- “Bad Place to Die”
- “That Triggernometry Tenderfoot”
- “The Town No Guns Could Tame”
- “Shandy Takes the Hook”
- “No Man’s Man”
- “Ride or Start Shootin'”
- “Long Ride Home”
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The Outlaws of Mesquite (1990)
- “The Outlaws of the Mesquite”
- “Love and the Cactus Kid”
- “The Ghost Maker”
- “The Drift”
- “No Rest for the Wicked”
- “That Packsaddle Affair”
- “Showdown on the Tumbling T”
- “The Sixth Shotgun”
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West from Singapore (1991)
- “East of Gorontalo”
- “On the Road to Amurang”
- “From Here to Banggai”
- “The House of Qasavara”
- “Well of the Unholy Light”
- “West from Singapore”
- “South of Suez”
Get West from Singapore (1991) from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, or on Kindle.
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Valley of the Sun (1995)
- “We Shaped the Land with Our Guns”
- “West of the Pilot Range”
- “When a Texan Takes Over”
- “No Man’s Mesa”
- “Gila Crossing”
- “Medicine Ground”
- “Valley of the Sun”
- “That Slash Seven Kid”
- “In Victorio’s Country”
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West of Dodge (1996)
- “Beyond the Chaparral”
- “A Husband for Janey”
- “West of Dodge”
- “The Passing of Rope Nose”
- “To Make a Stand”
- “That Man From the Bitter Sands”
- “Let the Cards Decide”
- “Riches Beyond Dream”
- “West of Dry Creek”
- “Marshal of Canyon Gap”
- “Home is the Hunter”
- “Rain on the Halfmoon”
- “Stage to Willowspring”
- “To Hang Me High”
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End of the Drive (1997)
- “Caprock Rancher”
- “Elisha Comes to Red Horse”
- “Desperate Men”
- “The Courting of Griselda”
- “End of the Drive”
- “The Lonesome Gods”
- “Rustler Roundup”
- “The Skull and the Arrow”
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Monument Rock (1998)
- “A Man Named Utah”
- “Battle at Burnt Camp”
- “Here Ends the Trail”
- “Ironwood Station”
- “Last Day in Town”
- “Strawhorse Trail”
- “The Man From the Dead Hills”
- “Monument Rock”
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Beyond the Great Snow Mountains (1999)
- “By the Waters of San Tadeo”
- “Meeting at Falmouth”
- “Roundup in Texas”
- “Sideshow Champion”
- “Crash Landing”
- “Under the Hanging Wall”
- “Coast Patrol”
- “The Gravel Pit”
- “The Money Punch”
- “Beyond the Great Snow Mountains”
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Off the Mangrove Coast (2000)
- “Fighters Should Be Hungry”
- “The Cross and the Candle”
- “Off the Mangrove Coast”
- “It’s Your Move”
- “The Rounds Don’t Matter”
- “The Diamond of Jeru”
- “The Unexpected Corpse”
- “Secret of Silver Spring”
- “Time of Terror”
Get Off the Mangrove Coast (2000) from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible.
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May There Be a Road (2001)
- “Friend of a Hero”
- “May There Be A Road”
- “Fighter’s Fiasco”
- “The Cactus Kid”
- “Making it the Hard Way”
- “The Hand of Kuan-Yin”
- “Red Butte Showdown”
- “The Ghost Fighter”
- “Wings Over Brazil”
- “The Vanished Blonde”
Get May There Be a Road (2001) from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible.
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With These Hands (2002)
- “Fighters Don’t Dive”
- “With These Hands”
- “Corpse on the Carpet”
- “Six-Gun Stampede”
- “Pirates of the Sky”
- “The Sucker Switch”
- “Gloves for a Tiger”
- “Police Band”
- “Flight to Enbetu”
- “Dream Fighter”
- “Voyage to Tobalai”
Get With These Hands (2002) from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible.
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From the Listening Hills (2003)
- “Anything for a Pal”
- “Backfield Battering Ram”
- “Down Paagumene Way”
- “Flight to the North”
- “From the Listening Hills”
- “Moon of the Trees Broken By Snow”
- “Moran of the Tigers”
- “Murphy Plays His Hand”
- “Sand Trap”
- “A Night At Wagon Camp”
- “Too Tough to Kill”
- “Waltz Him Around Again Shadow”
Get From the Listening Hills (2003) from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible.
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The Frontier Stories – Volume 1 (2003)
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The Frontier Stories – Volume 2 (2004)
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The Frontier Stories – Volume 3 (2005)
Get The Frontier Stories – Volume 3 (2005) from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible.
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The Adventure Stories – Volume 4 (2005)
Get The Adventure Stories – Volume 4 (2005) from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible.
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The Frontier Stories – Volume 5 (2007)
Get The Frontier Stories – Volume 5 (2007) from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible.
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The Crime Stories – Volume 6 (2008)
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The Frontier Stories– Volume 7 (2009)
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The Man from Battle Flat (2010)
Get The Man from Battle Flat (2010) from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, or on Kindle.
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Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures, V.1 (2017)
This collection includes a number of never-before published stories curated by Louis’ son, Beau L’Amour.
Get Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures, Volume 1 (2017) from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible.
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Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures, V.2 (2019)
This collection includes a number of never-before published stories curated by Louis’ son, Beau L’Amour.
Get Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures, Volume 2 (2019) from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible.
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All 238 stories in alphabetical order
- “A Friend of the General”
- “A Gun for Kilkenny”
- “A Husband for Janey”
- “A Job for a Ranger”
- “A Man Called Trent”
- “A Man Named Utah”
- “A Mule for Santa Fe”
- “A Night At Wagon Camp”
- “A Ranger Rides to Town”
- “A Strong Land Growing”
- “A Trail to the West”
- “Alkali Basin”
- “And Proudly Die”
- “Anything for a Pal”
- “Author’s Tea”
- “Backfield Battering Ram”
- “Bad Place to Die”
- “Barney Takes a Hand”
- “Battle at Burnt Camp”
- “Beyond the Chaparral”
- “Beyond the Great Snow Mountains”
- “Big Man”
- “Big Medicine”
- “Bill Carey Rides West”
- “Bluff Creek Station”
- “Boom Days Boom Again”
- “Booty for a Badman”
- “Bowdrie Follows a Cold Trail”
- “Bowdrie Passes Through”
- “By the Ruins of El Walarieh”
- “By the Waters of San Tadeo”
- “Caprock Rancher”
- “Case Closed—No Prisoners”
- “Coast Patrol”
- “Collect from a Corpse”
- “Corpse on the Carpet”
- “Crash Landing”
- “Dead-End Drift”
- “Death Song of the Sombrero”
- “Desert Death Song”
- “Desperate Men”
- “Down Paagumene Way”
- “Down Sonora Way”
- “Down the Pogonip Trail”
- “Dream Fighter”
- “Duffy’s Man”
- “Dutchman’s Flat”
- “East of Gorontalo”
- “Elisha Comes to Red Horse”
- “End of the Drive”
- “Fighters Don’t Dive”
- “Fighter’s Fiasco”
- “Fighters Should Be Hungry”
- “Flight to Enbetu”
- “Flight to the North”
- “Fork Your Own Broncs”
- “Four Card Draw”
- “Friend of a Hero”
- “From Here to Banggai”
- “From the Listening Hills”
- “Get Out of Town”
- “Gila Crossing”
- “Glorious! Glorious!”
- “Gloves for a Tiger”
- “Grub Line Rider”
- “Hattan’s Castle”
- “Henry Willard”
- “Here Ends the Trail”
- “Heritage of Hate”
- “His Brother’s Debt”
- “Home in the Valley”
- “Home is the Hunter”
- “Horse Heaven”
- “In Victorio’s Country”
- “Ironwood Station”
- “It’s Your Move”
- “Jackson of Horntown”
- “Keep Travelin’ Rider”
- “Last Day in Town”
- “Law of the Desert Born”
- “Let Me Forget…”
- “Let the Cards Decide”
- “Long Ride Home”
- “Lonigan”
- “Love and the Cactus Kid”
- “Making it the Hard Way”
- “Man From Battle Flat”
- “Man Riding West”
- “Marshal of Canyon Gap”
- “May There Be A Road”
- “McNelly Knows a Ranger”
- “McQueen of the Tumbling K”
- “Medicine Ground”
- “Meeting at Falmouth”
- “Men to Match the Hills”
- “Merrano of the Dry Country”
- “Mission to Siberut”
- “Mistakes Can Kill You”
- “Moon of the Trees Broken By Snow”
- “Monument Rock”
- “Moran of the Tigers”
- “More Brains Than Bullets”
- “Murphy Plays His Hand”
- “Night Over the Solomons”
- “No Man’s Man”
- “No Man’s Mesa”
- “No Rest for the Wicked”
- “No Trouble for the Cactus Kid”
- “Off the Mangrove Coast”
- “Old Doc Yak”
- “On the Road to Amurang”
- “One for the Pot”
- “One Last Gun Notch”
- “Pardner from the Rio”
- “Pirates of the Sky”
- “Pirates with Wings”
- “Police Band”
- “Rain on the Halfmoon”
- “Rain on the Mountain Fork”
- “Red Butte Showdown”
- “Regan of the Slash B”
- “Riches Beyond Dream”
- “Ride or Start Shootin'”
- “Ride, You Tonto Raiders!”
- “Riders of the Dawn”
- “Riding for the Brand”
- “Riding On”
- “Roundup in Texas”
- “Rowdy Rides to Glory”
- “Rustler Roundup”
- “Sand Trap”
- “Secret of Silver Spring”
- “Shandy Takes the Hook”
- “Shanghai, Not Without Gestures”
- “Show Me the Way to Go Home”
- “Showdown on the Hogback”
- “Showdown on the Tumbling T”
- “Showdown Trail”
- “Sideshow Champion”
- “Six-Gun Stampede”
- “So You Want Adventure, Do You?”
- “South of Deadwood”
- “South of Suez”
- “Squatters on the Lone Tree”
- “Stage to Willowspring”
- “Stay Out of My Nightmare”
- “Strange Pursuit”
- “Strawhorse Trail”
- “Survival”
- “Tailwind to Tibet”
- “That Man From the Bitter Sands”
- “That Packsaddle Affair”
- “That Slash Seven Kid”
- “That Triggernometry Tenderfoot”
- “The Admiral”
- “The Black Rock Coffin Makers”
- “The Cactus Kid”
- “The Cactus Kid Pays a Debt”
- “The Cross and the Candle”
- “The Courting of Griselda”
- “The Dancing Kate”
- “The Defense of Sentinel”
- “The Diamond of Jeru”
- “The Drift”
- “The Ghost Fighter”
- “The Ghost Maker”
- “The Ghosts of Buckskin Run”
- “The Gift of Cochise”
- “The Goose Flies South”
- “The Gravel Pit”
- “The Guns Talk Loud”
- “The Hand of Kuan-Yin”
- “The House of Qasavara”
- “The Impossible Murder”
- “The Killer from the Pecos”
- “The Lion Hunter and the Lady”
- “The Lonesome Gods”
- “The Man from Battle Flat”
- “The Man From the Dead Hills”
- “The Man Who Stole Shakespeare”
- “The Marshall of Painted Rock”
- “The Marshall of Sentinel”
- “The Money Punch”
- “The Moon of the Tree Broken by Snow”
- “The Nester and the Piute”
- “The One for the Mohave Kid”
- “The One Night Stand”
- “The Outlaws of Poplar Creek”
- “The Outlaws of the Mesquite”
- “The Passing of Rope Nose”
- “The Rider of the Ruby Hills”
- “The Road to Casa Piedras”
- “The Romance of Puite Bill”
- “The Rounds Don’t Matter”
- “The Skull and the Arrow”
- “The Sixth Shotgun”
- “The Street of Lost Corpses”
- “The Strong Shall Live”
- “The Sucker Switch”
- “The Town No Guns Could Tame”
- “The Trail to Crazy Man”
- “The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon”
- “The Turkeyfeather Riders”
- “The Unexpected Corpse”
- “The Vanished Blonde”
- “There’s Always a Trail”
- “Thicker Than Blood”
- “Time of Terror”
- “To Hang Me High”
- “To Make a Stand”
- “Too Tough to Brand”
- “Too Tough to Kill”
- “Trail to Pie Town”
- “Trail to Squaw Springs”
- “Trap of Gold”
- “Trouble Stop”
- “Under the Hanging Wall”
- “Unguarded Moment”
- “Until Midnight”
- “Valley of the Sun”
- “Voyage to Tobalai”
- “Waltz Him Around Again Shadow”
- “War Party”
- “We Shaped the Land with Our Guns”
- “Well of the Unholy Light”
- “West from Singapore”
- “West of Dodge”
- “West of Dry Creek”
- “West of the Pilot Range”
- “West of the Tularosas”
- “What Gold Does to a Man”
- “When a Texan Takes Over”
- “Where Buzzards Fly”
- “Where There’s Fighting”
- “Wings Over Brazil”
- “Wings over Khabarovsk”
- “With Death in His Corner”
- “With These Hands”
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