They always had men on the front cover. Tall, handsome, rugged men — their rifles slung across the saddle, looking towards the dusty green, burnt sienna buttes of Colorado or New Mexico. My uncle ...

The short story is the bread and butter of the Western genre. Plenty of classic Western films—such as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 3:10 to Yuma, and Rio Bravo, to name a few—were adapted from ...

Louis L'Amour was the king of western novels, and many of his books and short stories have been adapted into classic movies. Across a four-decade career, L'Amour crafted dozens of novels and stories ...

The books of Louis L'Amour, a writer of cowboy stories and Westerns, remain popular 14 years after the author's death. The writer's fans now have access to his work over the Internet. Louis L'Amour ...