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Conagher (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) Hardcover – Large Print, January 1, 1997
- Print length198 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherG K Hall & Co
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1997
- Dimensions6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches
- ISBN-10078381948X
- ISBN-13978-0783819488
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- Publisher : G K Hall & Co; Large Print edition (January 1, 1997)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 198 pages
- ISBN-10 : 078381948X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0783819488
- Item Weight : 1.05 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,838,716 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #38,474 in Westerns (Books)
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About the author
"I think of myself in the oral tradition--as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of a campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered--as a storyteller. A good storyteller."
It is doubtful that any author could be as at home in the world re-created in his novels as Louis Dearborn L'Amour. Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally "walked the land my characters walk." His personal experiences as well as his lifelong devotion to historical research combined to give Mr. L'Amour the unique knowledge and understanding of people, events, and the challenge of the American frontier that became the hallmarks of his popularity.
Of French-Irish descent, Mr. L'Amour could trace his own in North America back to the early 1600s and follow their steady progression westward, "always on the frontier." As a boy growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, he absorbed all he could about his family's frontier heritage, including the story of his great-grandfather who was scalped by Sioux warriors.
Spurred by an eager curiosity and desire to broaden his horizons, Mr. L'Amour left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs, including seaman, lumberjack, elephant handler, skinner of dead cattle, and miner, and was an officer in the transportation corps during World War II. During his "yondering" days he also circled the world on a freighter, sailed a dhow on the Red Sea, was shipwrecked in the West Indies and stranded in the Mojave Desert. He won fifty-one of fifty-nine fights as a professional boxer and worked as a journalist and lecturer. He was a voracious reader and collector of rare books. His personal library contained 17,000 volumes.
Mr. L'Amour "wanted to write almost from the time I could talk." After developing a widespread following for his many frontiers and adventure stories written for fiction magazines, Mr. L'Amour published his first full length novel, Hondo, in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 120 books is in print; there are more than 300 million copies of his books in print worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors in modern literary history. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and more than forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and television movies.
The recipient of many great honor and awards, in 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress in honor of his life's work. In 1984 he was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.
Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988. His wife, Kathy, and their two children, Beau and Angelique, carry the L'Amour publishing tradition forward with new books written by the author during his lifetime to be published by Bantam.
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Keeps you seeking out the the next plot unfolding, and how it will turn out!
Evie, a lonely woman left on her own with two children, expresses her longing and loneliness in notes she ties to tumbleweeds. A happy ending is inevitable. It’s the formula for the perfect Western.
is another great western story teller (he wrote The Searchers).
Well in this book, there's no doubt. Mr Conagher it's definitely the good guy with impeccable morals and even though you know he's going to end up with the girl, it was a pleasure reading the book to get to that point. This was my first Louis L'Amour book, even though my mother and my grandfather used to read them all the time. I'll definitely read more because even though my kids would call it hokie, it brought me back to an earlier time and I loved it!
But L'Amour brings Conn to life, makes him real and believable. You feel like you're there; his words evoke images and situations that ring true. I go back to them because Louis gave me a place filled with people I want to be with, to visit yet again.
This book is a treasure. Indulge in it, savor it. It's a very rare thing.
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Highly recommend this book.