Riders of the Dawn, Louis LAmour
Riders of the Dawn, Louis LAmour
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Riders of the Dawn
A Western Duo

Author: Louis L’Amour

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki, Jim Gough

Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2018

Synopsis

“Ride, You Tonto Raiders”Matt Sabre is a young and experienced gunfighter—but not a trouble seeker. But when Billy Curtin calls him a liar and goes for his gun, Matt has no choice but to draw and fire. To his surprise, the dying man gives him $5,000 and begs him to take the money to his wife, who is alone in defending the family ranch in the Mogollons. A combination of guilt, regret, and wanting to do the right thing leads Sabre to make that ride.“Riders of the Dawn”A young gunslinger is changed for the better by meeting a beautiful woman. A classic range-war Western, this novel features that powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision of the American West for which L’Amour’s fiction is known. In the author’s words, “It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes.”This story is one of Louis L’Amour’s early creations that have long been a source of speculation and curiosity among his fans. Early in his career, L’Amour wrote a number of novel-length stories for the pulps. Long after they were out of print, the characters of these early stories still haunted him. It was by revising and expanding these stories that L’Amour would create his first novels.

About Louis L’Amour

Louis L’Amour (1908–1988) was an American author whose Western stories are loved the world over. Born in Jamestown, North Dakota, he was the most decorated author in the history of American letters. In 1982 he was the first American author ever to be awarded a Special National Gold Medal by the United States Congress for lifetime literary achievement, and in 1984 President Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation. He was also a recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.

About Jim Gough

Jim Gough’s distinctive voice is well known in the Southwest through his hundreds of commercials and radio shows. He has also appeared in such feature films as Urban Cowboy, Places in the Heart, and JFK. A native of Austin, Texas, he can also be found entertaining with his western swing band, the Cosmopolitan Cowboys.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on August 12, 2023

This was the audio book version. The narrators were pretty good and made it easy to listen to. It was probably a better story than I rated it, which was only 3star because I was reminded that I don’t really like westerns, especially ones written in the 1940’s. There was just plain too much violence......more

Goodreads review by Barb on January 05, 2018

I thought it’d be nice to listen to a Western on this cold Winter day. The narrator had a perfect cowboy drawl & the story was short & fun. I enjoyed this more than I expected.......more

Goodreads review by Joyce on September 19, 2018

Riders of the Dawn and Ride, You Tonto Raiders were thought to be pulp stories originally, but L'Amour expanded them into short novels. Both are typical L'Amour, although not his best. Lots of action and gunplay, haunted, damaged characters who are redeemed by their experiences in the west; a perhap......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on March 18, 2022

Two short stories involving Matt Sabre. The first finds Matt taking $5000.00 to the widow of the man he gunned down in a fair fight, and helps her keep her ranch. The second tale finds Matt involved in a range war after he decides to put down stakes and start a ranch, and find himself a wife and rai......more

Goodreads review by John on March 27, 2024

Matt Sabre is a former soldier looking to settle down. He enters town, turns down a few jobs and finds himself enemy to both sides of a range war. He meets Olga McLaren, the daughter of one of the ranchers. He decides that he will marry her. He tells her so. He is beaten by Morgan Park who plans to......more

Quotes

“A strong case can be made that L’Amour was the most popular American writer of the twentieth century.” Wall Street Journal, praise for the author

“L’Amour never writes with less than a saddle creak in his sentences and more often with a desert heat wave boiling up from a sunbaked paragraph. A master storyteller.” Kirkus Reviews, praise for the author

“Rudnicki’s deep, commanding voice perfectly captures the tough edge of men who consider a three-to-one fight even.” AudioFile on Stefan Rudnicki’s reading of “Ride, You Tonto Raiders”

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