The First Fast Draw

Louis does not miss......more

I'll go ahead and give this one two and a half to three stars because I enjoyed the action and the gun fights, but it definitely was not one of L'Amour's best efforts. There was very little character development; and the plot was sloppily constructed, haphazard, and full of holes and inconsistencies......more

Wanted to read this again because it was the first L'Amour book I had read back in junior high. I loved it then and that started me collecting and reading all of his books. Such a fan boy then that I wrote him a letter and still have his signed reply (brown typewriter ink and brown ink autograph!).......more

Such a great, simple story. I haven’t read this since I was about 13 yrs old and it was just as good a read. L’Amour is just as exciting as I remember and when you read each line you’re right there with Cullen Baker as the story unfolds. .......more

This one was a lot easier to follow than The High-Graders. It was easy to separate the foil characters from the primary ones. They were introduced in a way that made it easy to tell who was whom. That wasn’t the case with The High-Graders. The fast draw-arguably the core of the book-was essentially t......more