The Tall Stranger: A Novel

I know this is fiction. But good fiction. You can’t put it down until you are finished! Got more to read - about 1 per week. I have all of Louis’s books and pick up another as soon as I finish one!

INMO Louise L'Amour is the best Western writer. The Tall Stranger is the third book of his I've read. Its an easy read. Read it in a few hours. This is one of his earlier works.We see a wagon train heading out to California having problems. Up comes this handsome, charming man in white hat on his horse and tells them there is another route further south. Harper is a lying bad person. He routes the wagon train to a beautiful valley. The bad Harper has deadly gunfighters with him. He plans to use the settlers to start a war with the big valley/ranch owner Bishop so he can take the ranch for himself.Our hero the tall stranger tells them don't go that way as you will have to fight Indians and a big rancher named Bishop owns the land and there will be trouble. Big Indian fight. and the tall stranger falls in love with a women on the wagon train.Lots of gunfighting, and a huge fist fight seen. Lots of action. Anyone loving the wild west will like this book.I won't ruin it for you by saying too much more. Only thing I've noticed so far with the 3 books of Louise L'Amour I've read there seems to be several patterns. Why in each of the books does a horse have to be shot and killed ( 2 good guys' horses and 1 bad guy's horse)? Also all 3 endings are typical and basically the same. I gave Sackett and Silver Canyon 5 stars but this one seems not as strong a character development as the others. The scenery and Western Environment description was fantastic as usual. Can't go wrong reading a Louise L'Amour book so far. The Tall stranger added to our family library. 4 stars.

I pulled this book out to read and found that some of the pages are coming loose at the binding, as though it wasn't glued well.

I liked the speed of the story and typical pictures Louis LAmour created in my mind as the story developed and the beauty of the countryside.

GREED GREED taking something that doesn't belong to you, but to someone else. People fight for their rights to live in peace and some where in between prosperity falls in the fold. This is what this story is about, there will always be followers and leaders. These settlers let a glib speaking con-man convinced them to settle a place calledBISHOP'S VALLEY, what these settlers don't know is that Mort Harper, the glib speaking southerner dandy, convinced these settlers to settle this valley. His real agenda is to hijack this beautiful piece of land for himself and like all tyrants he would appoint himself the leader. And this would be backed with the help of the gun wolves he's hired to keep everyone in line. Murder those he feels would buck his agenda, also offer settlers credit at the general store and holds that over them, making them beholdening to Harper...a real rat....Well, we all aware how those types of situationsturn out. LOTS of action, human trauma and drama...good adventure🍵

These books just keep getting better. As always just can't put it down. The descriptions and actions are great. I like how it's clean written.

I love this book it is now one of my favorites, right up there with "a man called noon" and "Flint."

The total stranger has all the elements of a good story, covered wagons and hard work, settling the west, with good and bad guys not clearly determined until all the cards are played. I recommend this book for all Louis l’Amour fans.

I started to try Louis L'amour because I had read all 15 of the Sudden books featuring Olever Strange's hero.Louis is a lot more realistic when it comes to what could really be done with a gun, but he gets a lot nearer than usual to an unbeatable hero in Rock Bannon.If you wish there were some more Sudden's then try this one.I have read more than half of the LL's now and this is one of the best 3 for me.

Another fine example of the master's work . A nice blend of true to life style characters involved in a land steal. There is lots of action and of course some romance . All the ingredients of a good western.

i am a fan of Louis LAmour I enjoy his books

This was purchased as a gift for a Louis L'Amour fan who aims to own a copy of every Louis L'Amour book written.

A classic story from the master ! (even better than the film)