Early in Louis L'Amour's career, he wrote a number of novel-length stories for pulp Western magazines. I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared went out of print, he said. I wanted to tell the reader more about my people and why they did what they did. So he revised and expanded these magazine works to be published again as full-length novels...