Silver Canyon

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Summary: Action
Review: I am not known for reading. the other day i told a friend about the lamor book i was reading he chuckeled at the thaught that i was reading. but something about this book caught my fancey. a lot of action and a great plot. I think this book is a good choice.

Thank you, Matt

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Summary: A Great Book !
Review: Louis L'Amour wrote many, many westerns and in my opinion this is one of the best of them. The story line is very cohesive and involving. The characters are rich and well developed. As always L'Amour weaves a rich and very detailed landscape, with a lot of attention to details. The plot was intriguing and kept you guessing right up until the end. Just a very, very well written story!

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Summary: A great book to read
Review: this book is good i could hardly put it down. i spent most of the night reading it.

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Summary: WHAT A GOOD CLASSIC WESTERN SHOULD BE !
Review: This is a very well written book. I have always been a Louis L�Amour fan but this is one of his best. It starts with a man named Matt Brennan who is a wanderer who goes from town to town. But one day while riding through a town he meets this girl. And that changes everything. To win her heart Brennan has to stay alive. He gets a ranch and watches a friend die in his arms this make Brennan mad a Brennan promises to never give up the ranch. Matt is pushed by the other ranchers to give up the ranch. The reason they want it is the is a Cotton Wood Wash and the other farmers want it for there cow to graze on. The others ranches send fighters in to kill Brennan. One of those ranches is the Box M. He gets in a fight with them and he gets in very bad shape. Will Brennan live? Well you have to read it to find out. I think the author could have made the book a little longer. There is a strong plot and good characters I suggest you read it.

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Summary: What Pocket Books Use To Be Like.
Review: This is the first Louis L'Amour book I have read so I can not compare it to any of his other books. This story makes me want to read more L'Amour books. I like a book that can tell a good story in less that 200 pages, I don't want read books by the pound. It reminds me of the old term "pocket book" because they can fit in your back pocket and can be read and enjoyed in a short amount of time. The main characters are likeable and the villians are people that need killing, what more do you want in a Western.

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Summary: CLASSIC L'AMOUR TALESMITHING!
Review: When I tell people that I love Louis L'Amour I get some pretty weird looks in return. To my friends I am known to read quite a bit of heavy history and biography and it seems odd to them that, given my normal reading diet, I could find anything good to say about such "light" reading as L'Amour. Still I find L'Amour's talesmithing abilities to be without peer.

L'Amour wrote with a distinctive style and filled his stories with action and intrigue. No, his works are not the extremely violent works that typify modern westerns like UNFORGIVEN or OPEN RANGE. But then L'Amour wrote in a time when such graphic action would not have been readily accepted.

With all this in mind, I loved SILVER CANYON, a tale of vengeance, lies and, as with virtually all of L'Amour's stories, of the good guy winning in the end. The tiny western hamlet of Hattan's Point is a sleepy town until the day that Matt Brennan seems to bring with him a heated, all out war that involves practically everyone in town. Matt makes friends and enemies with equal ease. He also finds the love of his life and is in hot pursuit despite her being the daughter of one of the main combatants in the feud.

Who will win out? Read SILVER CANYON.

THE HORSEMAN

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Summary: AN OLD SCHOOL WESTERN IN TRUE L'AMOUR FORM
Review: When it comes to reading Louis L'Amour the modern western fan is faced with having to take things in context. Remember that L'Amour's works were primarily written in the fifties and sixties and, as a result, have a certain "dignity" about them that no longer applies with the westerns of today, especially those on the big screen.

Take SILVER CANYON for example. There is plenty of action here to be sure but it is painted much more subtly on L'Amour's canvass than, let's say, on those of Larry McMurtry or on Clint Eastwood's or Kevin Costner's movie screens. Frankly L'Amour or his readers would not have tolerated the graphic, raw, often harsh violence of today's western s offerings. It's still there he just expresses it in ways that are less bombastic. For example, instead of saying, "the bullet smashed into my elbow sending blood and bone flying everywhere..." L'Amour offers, "I felt a tug at at my sleeve..." even though it is apparent to the reader that the first version is still what happened.

L'Amour wrote with a clear sense of nostalgia and romance about the west. He was much for the kindred spirit of John Wayne and John Ford than of McMurtry, Eastwood or Costner.

I thoroughly enjoyed SILVER CANYON, a tale of revenge, deceit and, as is the case with all L'Amour tales, of ultimate white-hatted triumph and justice. Matt Brennan rides into the sleepy town of Hattan's Point and awakens the flames of a smoldering range war. He discovers friends, fiends and meets the girl of his dreams. Like all other L'Amour pieces reading SILVER CANYON in the correct mindset is absolutely essential. If you do you'll find another L'Amour western masterpiece.

Douglas McAllister