Hanging Woman Creek

A story set in Montana and centred around Pike (Pronto) a cowboy who likes to fight and rides for the brand. Him and his partner Eddie are employed to look after cattle during winter. They must battle the elements, rustlers and vigilantes. Pike also meets Ann an Irish woman visiting her brother Farl......more

Louis L’Amour is one of the most popular author’s of Westerns—though he himself preferred the term “frontier stories”—and it is easy to see why: he clearly loves the American West, and shows his reader how the land itself—this beautiful and challenging environment—shapes the men and women who give i......more

"Στο ρέμα της Κρεμασμένης Γυναίκας", εκδόσεις Λιβάνη. Τελευταία φορά που διάβασα βιβλίο του αγαπημένου Λουίς Λ' Αμούρ ήταν τον Σεπτέμβριο του 2020, οπότε σίγουρα μου έλειψε ολίγον τι. Και δεν μπορώ να καταλάβω γιατί δεν διαβάζω συχνότερα βιβλία του, αφού μπορεί με αυτό να έφτασα τα δεκαοχτώ βιβλία το......more

This was my least favorite of L’Amour’s books that I’ve come across. I always have five or four stars to give his works. This one started really shaky. The first 25 or 30 pages were not great. But it had all the classic elements of a L’Amour novel. This one got four starts but just barely.......more

I liked the development of characters in this L’Amour, as well as the excellent supporting characters to Pike. Eddie’s exactly what a right-hand-man should be, and the addition of Ann as a strong supporting woman was delightful. A few twists and turns in the plot that kept my interest, and a “happy......more