Big Country, Vol. 2
Stories of Louis LAmour

Another audio book from the library & candy read. Good readers, a handful of unmemorable short stories. I should probably also add them to the romance shelf. L'Amour loves to get the hero together with some female even if they've only shared a single conversation in the few hours they've known each......more

Good and solid prose in an English that can be understood by all. The fourth star goes to Mark Bramhall who's excellent narration took me inside the stories. As I constantly tell my relatives that are not Americans, stop listening to the current American culture to know how English should be spoken.......more

Western stories always make me cry. The last one really got me.......more

In “West of the Tularosa,” some shading dealing and at one least on murder puts the ownership of a ranch in jeopardy. In “Home in the Valley,” a bank failure will cause five ranchers to lose everything, unless one determined rancher can get to the bank branch to withdraw the money before the steamer......more

I’ve been on Louis L’Amour reading kick lately, and this one broke away a bit from the formulaic writing of some of the other collections of his I’d taken on. Only one of these used L’Amour’s overused plot device of having a slim hipped broad shouldered hero fistfight and gunfight his way to justice......more