End of the Drive: A Novel (Sacketts)

It was correctly described and was delivered sooner than I expected, great job.

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.

This is a collection of short stories, not a novel, as incorrectly stated in advertising.

and this is not that mythical beast. short or fairly short stories. often I can approximately know the territory. not convincing as a Sackett title, there is a Sackett short in it, but most of the stories are not about that family.

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.

A veteran trail driver, who has survived thundering stampedes and Comanche raids, discovers there’s nothing so dangerous as courting a beautiful woman. . . . A brutally beaten homesteader crawls off to die—only to stumble upon an ancient talisman that restores his will to live. . . . This treasure trove of stories captures the grit, grandeur, and the glory of the men and women who wielded pistol and plow, Bible and branding iron to tame a wild country. A mysterious preacher rides into town to deliver a warning that leads to a surprising revelation. . . . And in the full-length novella Rustler Roundup, the hardworking citizens of a law-abiding town are pushed to the edge as rumors of rustlers in their midst threaten to turn neighbor against neighbor.

This has got to be one of the most entertaining sentences I have ever read::"If you were ever seventeen years old and standing in a buffalo wallow one hundred and fifty miles from home, and your pa with a broke leg, you know how I felt."Only to be to be topped by the one that follows: "And only one horse between us."Hilarious, right?! It appears in the opening story in this volume, Caprock Rancher. I am not sure exactly what a buffalo wallow is either, but it is poetic justice that the knows-more-than-his-father teenager is standing in it. The rest of the stories are pretty good but nothing can surpass the misery of that poor horse with a crippled father and his sassy teenage son riding together. :D)

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

Usual good stories from the master, short stories were a good thing as I was out and about, liked them all. Always an entertaining author and this was good work - as it happens, I've just been watching another on TV, Catlow, The book has a reference to the Sackett saga. Going to have to read more of these.

True Sacett story good book for a couple of hours reading while catching up on the Sackett,s

this a louis l amour book of short stories of the west. they are various stories each given the typical lois l amour treatment if you like the shorter story lines then this is for you. i really enjoyed but still prefer the full novels where their is more time to develop the plots. never the less it is an enjoyable book to read.

All fans of Louis L'Amour seem to love all his books and this was no exception.

For some odd reason this book finishes on page 232 part way through a story.This is a collection of short stories and the final story should start on page 237 with the Afterword on page 243.Both of these are missing.Obviously a printing error.