Showdown at Yellow Butte

I noticed this with a few other L'Amour books I've read: Within twenty pages the reader finds themselves dumped in a sea of names with little to no background as to who they are. In this case it was worse for a couple names are similar. Worse, as the book goes on, some switch from good to bad and vi......more

2.5 stars. I don't know...I guess you can outgrow an author. When I read this as a teenager just discovering Westerns, I ate it up, but re-reading it now all I can see is a quickly-moving mechanical plot, a lot of bite-sized commentary on the characters of various men without any of them ever seemin......more

One Man Can Make a Difference. The storyline is about Indian Bureau corruption and voter fraud, highlighting this above-average Western by one of the best authors in the business. It shows the government rarely has the citizens best interests in mind and the necessity of checks and balances to preven......more

In the range wars of New Mexico, Tom Kedrick is hired to drive the outlaws out of the territory off government lands set aside for the Indians. He soon learns that he might be on the wrong side in a swindle.......more

An early L'Amour originally written under the pen-name of Jim Mayo. Man is hired to run out some squatters but quickly realizes he is on the wrong side. This early book is not quite up to the standards that L'Amour would later set, but it is still fairly good. Recommended to western fans.......more