Frontier

by Louis L'Amour

Book Overview

Louis L'Amour has built his unmatched worldwide popularity largely through his ability to make the American frontier experience come alive in more than 200 novels and short stories. Now, in response... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553050788
• Release Date: October 1984
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.2" x 0.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Pictures are Better than the Words

I like Louis L'Amour, like him a lot. But this photographic exhibition of America would have been far better had someone else written the captioning for those pictures. That is my opinion. In later years Louis L'Amour became too "preachy" with his philosophy of life and such like subjects. He didn't let the story tell how he felt; he would just blurt it out--time and time again in his last books. Granted, his early westerns were his best--with a few exceptions written later on. I know this is not a novel, nor fiction; it is a travelogue of stunning pictures with stories told about those pictures, and I still believe the essays would have been done better by someone else. I have had a copy of this book for many many years--since 1995--about ten years after it was published. I look at it from time to time and wonder what might have been....If you enjoy Louis L'Amour go ahead and purchase this book to add to your collection of his work; it is good enough to own--just not his best work.

L'Amour satisfies once again

In this book he has written a series of essays that whet your appetite for more information on and history of the peoples who settled America. He broadens our mindset of what "frontier" means in regards to America's settlement, in both timeframe and area of the country. For him, all of America was once a frontier - not just our usual limited concept of "the west". Any fan of L'Amour will like this book. As usual, he leaves you satisfied, and at the same time wanting just a little more, just like any good storyteller.The breathtaking, awesome photography makes you want to leave home and go discover the places photographed for yourself.