swap_horiz Kilkenny Alternatives

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Bendigo Shafter

This 1979 western novel by Louis L'Amour won the Spur Award for Best Western Novel, exploring the establishment of a fro...

Standalone Wyoming Settlement 1979

7.9 Good

2

The Daybreakers

This 1960 western novel by Louis L'Amour follows brothers Tyrel and Orrin Sackett as they venture west, establishing man...

Frontier Lawman 1960 Louis Lamour

7.8 Good

3

Flint

This 1960 western novel by Louis L'Amour departs from his usual series to tell the story of James Flint, a wealthy finan...

Standalone 1960 Louis Lamour Dying Man

7.6 Good

4

Sackett

Published in 1961, this western novel by Louis L'Amour follows Tell Sackett as he navigates conflict after discovering g...

Family Saga 1961 Frontier Louis Lamour

7.5 Good

5

Conagher

This western novel by Louis L'Amour, published in 1969, follows a drifting cowboy and was later adapted into a 1991 tele...

Standalone Romance Frontier 1969

7.4 Good

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Comstock Lode

Louis L'Amour's 1981 western novel explores the historical silver rush of Nevada, following a determined protagonist nav...

Standalone 1981 Nevada Louis Lamour

7.3 Good

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Lando

Louis L'Amour's 1962 western novel follows Orlando Sackett as he seeks revenge and builds a timber business, expanding t...

Adventure 1962 Frontier Louis Lamour

7.1 Good

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Sitka

Louis L'Amour's 1987 western novel deviates from the American frontier to explore the Russian colonization of Alaska, ce...

Standalone Frontier 1957 Alaska

7.1 Good

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High Lonesome

Louis L'Amour's 1962 western following a fugitive who falls in with outlaws but ultimately risks everything to protect a...

Standalone Desert Outlaw 1962

7.0 Good

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The Burning Hills

Published in 1956, this western novel by Louis L'Amour follows Trace Jordan as he seeks revenge against a powerful cattl...

Standalone Revenge Pursuit 1956

6.8 Fair

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The Man Called Noon

Louis L'Amour's 1970 western featuring an amnesiac gunman who must piece together his hidden identity while surviving re...

Standalone Amnesia 1970 Louis Lamour

6.8 Fair

12

The Tall Stranger

This 1957 western novel by Louis L'Amour was adapted into a feature film starring Joel McCrea, featuring a plot heavily...

Standalone Pioneer 1957 Louis Lamour

6.6 Fair

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Dark Canyon

Louis L'Amour's 1963 western in which a man concealing a secret past attempts to build a ranch in a remote Arizona canyo...

Standalone Outlaw 1963 Louis Lamour

6.6 Fair

14

Rivers West

Rivers West is a 1975 Western novel by Louis L'Amour, following a Canadian boat builder who travels into the American fr...

Standalone 1975 Mississippi Fur Trade

6.6 Fair

15

The Ferguson Rifle

Louis L'Amour's 1973 western in which a frontiersman carrying a prized Hawken rifle journeys through the Rocky Mountains...

Standalone 1973 Fur Trade Louis Lamour

6.5 Fair

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Radigan

Louis L'Amour's 1958 western about a tough New Mexico rancher who fights off a ruthless land-grab scheme mounted by a po...

Standalone 1958 New Mexico Range War

6.5 Fair

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Fallon

Louis L'Amour's 1963 western set in Nevada Territory, in which a resourceful drifter discovers a silver deposit and must...

Standalone Nevada 1963 Louis Lamour

6.5 Fair

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The Empty Land

Louis L'Amour's 1969 western in which a marshal is tasked with bringing law to a violent Colorado mining boomtown using...

Standalone Lawman 1969 Louis Lamour

6.5 Fair

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The High Graders

Louis L'Amour's 1965 western novel set around a mining camp, following an investigator who uncovers a systematic ore-the...

Standalone Mining 1965 Louis Lamour

6.3 Fair

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The Haunted Mesa

Louis L'Amour's 1987 novel blends western themes with science fiction, following an explorer who discovers a portal to a...

Standalone Supernatural 1987 Louis Lamour

4.9 Poor