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Offline kevin.303

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« on: June 03, 2003, 06:54:07 AM »
are the old louis l'amour novels published before he signed with bantam worth anything? i also have some old western pulp magazines with this stories published under the name jim mayo. i have most of his published books and my favorite has to be either flint or the man from skibberren. the kilkenny series is also good reading. has anyone ever tried writtin' there own western? i' got a couple of chapters but then i hit a dead end
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« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2003, 09:29:30 AM »
Hi Kevin, How many books do you show him getting published? I have 113, and all of them are westerns but maybe 5 or 6. I know that he did a few detectives stories but have never seen but one in print.
 
I like his Sackett series best with Jubal being my favorite.

Can't help you with what they're worth though. I picked up alot of mine when a book store up here closed a few years back. Bring a grocery bag in and five dollars for as many as could put in it :D
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« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2003, 05:50:23 AM »
i've got maybe 55-65 of his books all of various ages. the best place to look is a secondhand bookstore
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« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2003, 07:47:15 AM »
What Cody said about the Sacketts.  Used to read every L'Amour book I could get my hands on before I retired. Had to do considerable business travel then, and could usually finish at least one of his books per trip, what with flight time and waiting for connections, etc.  Now that I'm retired, I don't have time to read - too many projects, "honey dos", ammo reloading, etc.  Do enjoy watching movies based on his books.
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« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2003, 03:29:35 PM »
Yup!  Read'em all one time or another.  I have a Western novel that's been completed and I even had an agent...but we didn't manage to sell it...yet!  So, I started on another.  My wife tells me they would sell if I'd add sex!  She's probably right.  So, I'll have to do a little research on that sex part.  Being married and all, I'm a little rusty! :-D

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« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2003, 05:20:49 AM »
whats time and place is the siting of your story? mine is 1876 new mexico and the main character is a bounty killer. ijust sat down one day and started writting with no planned storyline. maybe that didn't work to well
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Offline Dan Chamberlain

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« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2003, 04:26:43 PM »
The time and place:  1877/78.  The place is along the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and New Mexico.  The story concerns a ficticious story line build around an event that seems to have happened but there is little historical record of the outcome.  Evidently about 75 Comanche Indians left the reservations and went to raiding the ranches and buffalo camps.  They were eventually returned to the reservations, but there is not much that tells the actual story.  More of an historical postscript.  So, I just told my own story.  It's currently in re-write and we will try and sell it again.  My agent fronted it to all the major houses and while more times than not the rejections were short and to the point, one major house was very complimentary about the story and its historical and geographical accuracy.  They indicated they wanted to see a little more development between the hero and his love interest.  So, I'm going to have to look at a way to get her petticoat off in the middle of a Comanche battle, without it taking on the air of an episode of "F-Troop."


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