Order of Louis L’Amour Books
Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) was an American novelist, or as he would say, “an American storyteller.” The majority of his work was western novels (which he referred to as “Frontier novels”), although he had some science fiction and historical fiction books in there as well. Several of his books were adapted into films, including Crossfire Trail, The Iron Marshal (as Shaughnessy), Conagher, The Quick and the Dead, Down the Long Hills, The Shadow Riders, The Man Called Noon and too many others to list.
During his nearly 40 year career, L’Amour wrote 89 novels, 14 short story collections and two non-fiction books, which would categorize him as a prolific author under any criteria. All of his work remains in print to this day. Since then, several works of L’Amour’s have been published posthumously. Below is a list of Louis L’Amour’s books in order of when they were originally published (as well as in chronological order):
Publication Order of The Sacketts Books
| The Daybreakers | (1960) |    |
| Sackett | (1961) | |
| Lando | (1962) | |
| Mojave Crossing | (1964) | |
| The Sackett Brand | (1965) | |
| Mustang Man | (1966) | |
| The Sky-Liners | (1967) | |
| The Lonely Men | (1969) | |
| Galloway | (1970) | |
| Ride the Dark Trail | (1972) | |
| Treasure Mountain | (1972) | |
| War Party | (1973) | |
| Sackett's Land | (1974) | |
| To the Far Blue Mountains | (1976) | |
| Lonely on the Mountain | (1980) | |
| Ride the River | (1983) | |
| The Warrior's Path | (1984) | |
| Jubal Sackett | (1985) | |
| End of the Drive | (1997) | |
Chronological Order of The Sacketts Books
| Sackett's Land | (1974) | |
| To the Far Blue Mountains | (1976) | |
| The Warrior's Path | (1984) | |
| Jubal Sackett | (1985) | |
| Ride the River | (1983) | |
| The Daybreakers | (1960) | |
| Lando | (1962) | |
| Sackett | (1961) | |
| Mojave Crossing | (1964) | |
| The Sackett Brand | (1965) | |
| The Sky-Liners | (1967) | |
| The Lonely Men | (1969) | |
| Mustang Man | (1966) | |
| Galloway | (1970) | |
| Treasure Mountain | (1972) | |
| Ride the Dark Trail | (1972) | |
| Lonely on the Mountain | (1980) | |
| War Party | (1973) | |
| End of the Drive | (1997) | |
Publication Order of Talon Books
| Rivers West | (1975) | |
| The Man from the Broken Hills | (1975) | |
| Milo Talon | (1981) | |
Publication Order of Chantry Books
| North to the Rails | (1971) | |
| Fair Blows the Wind | (1973) | |
| The Ferguson Rifle | (1973) | |
| Over on the Dry Side | (1975) | |
| Borden Chantry | (1977) | |
Chronological Order of Chantry Books
| Fair Blows the Wind | (1973) | |
| The Ferguson Rifle | (1973) | |
| Borden Chantry | (1977) | |
| North to the Rails | (1971) | |
| Over on the Dry Side | (1975) | |
Publication Order of Kilkenny Books
| Kilkenny | (1954) | |
| The Rider of Lost Creek | (1976) | |
| The Mountain Valley War / A Man Called Trent | (1978) | |
| A Gun for Kilkenny | (1997) | |
| Monument Rock | (1998) | |
Chronological Order of Kilkenny Books
| The Rider of Lost Creek | (1976) | |
| The Mountain Valley War / A Man Called Trent | (1978) | |
| Kilkenny | (1954) | |
| A Gun for Kilkenny | (1997) | |
| Monument Rock | (1998) | |
Publication Order of Hopalong Cassidy Books
| The Riders of High Rock | (1951) | |
| The Rustlers of West Fork | (1951) | |
| The Trail to Seven Pines | (1951) | |
| Trouble Shooter | (1952) | |
Chronological Order of Hopalong Cassidy Books
| The Rustlers of West Fork | (1951) | |
| The Trail to Seven Pines | (1951) | |
| The Riders of High Rock | (1951) | |
| Trouble Shooter | (1952) | |
Publication Order of Louis L’Amour Standalone Novels
| Showdown at Yellow Butte | (1953) | |
| Crossfire Trail | (1954) | |
| Utah Blaine | (1954) | |
| To Tame a Land | (1955) | |
| Heller with a Gun | (1955) | |
| Guns of the Timberlands | (1955) | |
| Silver Canyon | (1956) | |
| The Burning Hills | (1956) | |
| Sitka | (1957) | |
| Last Stand at Papago Wells | (1957) | |
| The Tall Stranger | (1957) | |
| Radigan | (1959) | |
| Flint | (1960) | |
| Killoe | (1962) | |
| High Lonesome | (1962) | |
| Dark Canyon | (1963) | |
| Kiowa Trail | (1964) | |
| Hanging Woman Creek | (1964) | |
| The Key-Lock Man | (1965) | |
| The High Graders | (1965) | |
| The Broken Gun | (1966) | |
| Kilrone | (1966) | |
| Matagorda | (1967) | |
| Brionne | (1968) | |
| Chancy | (1968) | |
| Conagher | (1969) | |
| Under the Sweetwater Rim | (1971) | |
| Tucker | (1971) | |
| The Man from Skibbereen | (1973) | |
| The Quick and the Dead | (1973) | |
| The Californios | (1974) | |
| Where the Long Grass Blows | (1976) | |
| The Iron Marshal | (1979) | |
| The Proving Trail | (1979) | |
| Kiowa Trail and Killoe | (1979) | |
| The Cherokee Trail | (1982) | |
| The ShadowRiders | (1982) | |
| Son of a Wanted Man | (1984) | |
| Where Buzzards Fly | (1986) | |
| Riding for the Brand | (1986) | |
| South of Deadwood | (1986) | |
| Showdown Trail | (1987) | |
| Dead End Drift | (1987) | |
| The Turkeyfeather Riders | (1988) | |
| Bowdrie Passes Through | (1988) | |
| The Louis L'Amour Companion | (1992) | |
| Black Rock: A Western Trio | (1994) | |
| The Marshal of Sentinel | (1995) | |
| Louis L'Amour Trail Mix: Volume Two | (2002) | |
| The Sixth Shotgun | (2003) | |
| The First Fast Draw | (2003) | |
| Big Medicine | (2008) | |
| Dawn Riders | (2010) | |
| The Black Rock Coffin Makers | (2013) | |
| Riders of the Tumbling K | (2014) | |
| Showdown | (2017) | |
| Three Bullets for the Cactus Kid | (2018) | |
| Bannon | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Louis L'Amour Short Story Collections
| Smoke from This Altar | (1939) | |
| The Strong Shall Live | (1980) | |
| Buckskin Run | (1981) | |
| Law of the Desert Born | (1983) | |
| Bowdrie's Law | (1984) | |
| Dutchman's Flat | (1986) | |
| Night Over the Solomons | (1986) | |
| The Trail to Crazy Man | (1986) | |
| Man Riding West | (1986) | |
| The Rider of the Ruby Hills | (1986) | |
| West from Singapore | (1987) | |
| Lonigan | (1988) | |
| Long Ride Home | (1989) | |
| Grub Line Rider | (1990) | |
| The Outlaws of Mesquite | (1990) | |
| West of the Tularosa | (1992) | |
| Valley of the Sun | (1995) | |
| West of Dodge | (1996) | |
| Mistakes Can Kill You | (1997) | |
| Monument Rock | (1998) | |
| Beyond the Great Snow Mountains | (1999) | |
| May There Be a Road | (2001) | |
| With These Hands | (2002) | |
| From the Listening Hills | (2003) | |
| The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1 | (2003) | |
| The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2 | (2004) | |
| Home in the Valley | (2005) | |
| Lone Star Law | (2005) | |
| The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 3 | (2005) | |
| The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4 | (2006) | |
| The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour Volume 5 | (2007) | |
| Big Country, Volume 1 | (2007) | |
| The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 6 | (2008) | |
| The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 7 | (2009) | |
| The Frontier Stories | (2009) | |
| The Man from Battle Flat | (2010) | |
| Glory Riders | (2011) | |
| The Strong Land | (2012) | |
| Desert Death-Song | (2013) | |
| We Shaped the Land with Our Guns | (2014) | |
| The Chick Bowdrie Short Stories Bundle | (2015) | |
| Golden Gunmen | (2016) | |
Publication Order of Louis L’Amour Non-Fiction Books
| Frontier | (1984) | |
| The Sackett Companion | (1988) | |
| A Trail of Memories: The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour | (1988) | |
| Education of a Wandering Man | (1989) | |
| Martin H. M. Schreiber: Last of a Breed | (2017) | |
| Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures - Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes | (2018) | |
| Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2 - More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures Books
| Hondo | (1953) | |
| Kilkenny | (1954) | |
| Taggart | (1959) | |
| Shalako | (1962) | |
| How the West Was Won | (1962) | |
| Kid Rodelo | (1966) | |
| Down the Long Hills | (1968) | |
| The Man Called Noon | (1969) | |
| The Empty Land | (1969) | |
| Fallon | (1969) | |
| Reilly's Luck | (1970) | |
| Callaghen | (1972) | |
| Fair Blows the Wind | (1973) | |
| The Ferguson Rifle | (1973) | |
| Over on the Dry Side | (1975) | |
| Westward the Tide | (1976) | |
| Bendigo Shafter | (1979) | |
| Yondering | (1980) | |
| Comstock Lode | (1981) | |
| The Lonesome Gods | (1983) | |
| The Hills of Homicide | (1983) | |
| Bowdrie | (1983) | |
| The Walking Drum | (1984) | |
| Passin' Through | (1985) | |
| Last of the Breed | (1986) | |
| The Haunted Mesa | (1987) | |
| Off the Mangrove Coast | (2000) | |
| Catlow | (2018) | |
| No Traveller Returns | (2018) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Riders of the Dawn | (1951) | |
Publication Order of Colección Frontera Books
(with)
| The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains | (1902) | |
| The Virginian - MP3 CD Audiobook in CD jewel case | (1902) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Western Movies | (1997) | |
| The Best of the American West | (1998) | |
| The Best of the American West II | (1999) | |
| Guns of the West | (2002) | |
| The Golden West | (2003) | |
| The Untamed West | (2004) | |
| Lost Trails | (2007) | |
| The Lawless West | (2007) | |
| Ghost Towns | (2010) | |
| Three Classic Westerns | (2013) | |
| Trailin' West | (2016) | |
Notes: The Hopalong Cassidy series was originally published under the pen name Tex Burns. Whenever asked for one of these books to be autographed, L’Amour refused, insisting that “they weren’t his books.” When asked late in life about the series, L’Amour confessed he wrote the books, but only did them for the money.
The anthology The Golden West also contains stories by Zane Grey and Max Brand. A Trail of Memories: The Quotations Of Louis L’Amour was compiled by Angelique L’Amour.
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Love his work,got in trouble at school,daydream ing on the plains,my body in class ,my restless soul riding the High Plains! Study Hall,no free time was the price,still do it today ,good never dirs!
love louis l’amour. can’t find squatters on the lonetree is this part of his short stories /
Try your thrift stores,Estate Sales,Yard Sales,Newspapers Ads,EBay Esty.com,,they just about give the! Away,I bought 19 at .50 cents each!Enjoy!
could not find the short story collection called, West of the Tularosa.
One of the two best western storytellers that have ever been published. I had over 80 volumes of his works while I served, all paperbacks, when finished with them I sent them home. When mom got the packages she would take the Louis L’Amour books out and read them before she put them away for me. Lost most of my collect to a fire and the rest was taken by my ex. Long live the novels and stories of Louis L’Amour and Zane Grey the two best western storytellers.
Shelly Ann, LPN (ret)
A Proud Honorable Disabled American Veteran, 1967-1994
Hi Brandon, in reviewing the books by Louis L’Amour, I came across a book I have that is not on your list. It is called “Big Medicine” and was published in 2008 by the Golden West Literary Agency. It has 4 short stories that were published from 1947 through 1950 and were written by Louis L’Amour under the byline Jim Mayo. Hopefully/maybe you can add another section under Louis L’Amour showing his books by Jim Mayo. Thanks, Jim
Does any one know the number of books printed- by publisher -hardback, paperback, non-english translated that he wrote
Google him it’s on the net now ,he was a busy man ,his mind had to work while he slept!
I have most of the books Louis wrote. I have over 105 books. There are three on this list from his WW2 adventures that I know of right off hand : Night over the Solomons, West from Singapore, Off the Mangrove Coast. There maybe a couple more but I didn’t look real close at the list.
Is this in response to Jimbowman00’s post?
If you have any books we don’t have listed, feel free to let us know. Sometimes things slip through the cracks, especially when it’s an older author who is so prolific.
I’ll gladly add them if I can find out what I’m missing, along with his collections and other works. Thanks!
i didn’t see any of Louis’s books about his adventures during WW 2