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There will never be another Western writer like Louis L’Amour. A legendary author and indisputably the greatest storyteller in his genre of all time, L’Amour captivated millions of readers and has sold well over three hundred million copies of his works, which includes nearly ninety novels and countless short stories. Mistakes Can Kill You highlights an essential selection featuring nine of L’Amour’s earlier short stories, sometimes written under the pen name Jim Mayo, that exemplify the rugged morality of the best Western writing.

Welcome to Travers Corners, a dusty Montana town, where nothing much has happened since Herbert Hoover stopped for gas. Travers Corners, like most small towns, has no newspaper, no radio station; but here, large trout - no better than large trout, fictitious trout - await the angler. And apart from spreading gossip outside the McCraken’s General Store, the residents of Travers Corners love nothing more than fly fishing. Scott Waldie’s delightful cast of characters breathes life into this tiny, out-of-the-way town.

He is the Virginian-the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks the birth of a legend that lives with us still.

At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow...

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an expedition to track them down.

The marshal’s name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he’s buried a few men in this two-bit cow town—every single one killed in a fair fight. Then, one dark, grim day a mysterious gunman shot a man in cold blood. Five grisly murders later, Chantey was faced with the roughest...

Snowbound in the high Rockies, Deputy Shorty McKay is given a simple task: deliver a payroll to a remote mining camp before dawn. But when pride outweighs good sense, Shorty refuses the safety of a mule—only to find himself robbed, captured, and riding one anyway…straight into disaster.

Join Oasis Audio for 100 radio shows from across all genres. Thrill to detective stories and mysteries, dig your spurs in for some dusty trail Western adventures, laugh until you cry with the kings and queens of radio comedy, sit on the edge of your seat for the greatest radio dramas. Be filled with nostalgia as you enjoy this unique collection of 100 of the all-time best radio shows.

He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were...

In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after returning to his homeland, discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible. Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to make his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs...

Wolfsblut - ein Klassiker der Jugend- und Abenteuerliteratur. Der junge Wolf lernt das Leben in der Wildnis kennen, doch seine Mutter ist nur zur Hälfte Wolf. Und es gibt auch in Wolfsblut Instinkte, die ihn die Gesellschaft des Menschen suchen lassen... Packender Roman über Kälte, Natur, das Leben in der Wildnis - und die Freundschaft von Mensch und Tier.

Featuring the song, ""House of Earth"" performed by Lucinda Williams. Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is Woody Guthrie's only fully realized novel, a powerful portrait of dust bowl America. It is the story of an ordinary couple's dreams of a better life and their...

When lawlessness sweeps across Sun Dog County, Sheriff Brick Davidson faces his toughest challenge yet. A string of daring robberies, a wrecked stagecoach, and mounting political pressure threaten to derail his re-election—and his control of the frontier town he’s sworn to protect.

Echoes of the Frontier gathers thirteen unforgettable tales by literary giants such as Jack London, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte—each story capturing a different facet of life at the edge of civilization. From the perilous ride of The Denver Express to the poetic solitude of On the Divide, and from the chilling desperation of Love of Life to the dry wit of Nevada Sketches, these stories illuminate the grit, dreams, and humanity of those who dared to tame the wild.

Die Blutsbrüder Winnetou und Old Shatterhand jagen den skrupellosen Schurken Cornel Brinkley, der auf der Suche nach dem legendären Schatz im Silbersee ist. Um an die geheime Schatzkarte zu gelangen, geht er über Leichen. Winnetou und Old Shatterhand sind ihm dicht auf den Fersen, werden jedoch in einen Hinterhalt gelockt. Als Brinkley schließlich die Schatzhöhle erreicht, glaubt er, am Ziel seiner Träume zu sein. "Der Schatz im Silbersee", gelesen von Martin Seifert, ist einer der berühmtesten Romane von Karl May – und ein wahrer Klassiker der Abenteuer-Literatur.

Jedno z nejznámějších děl Karla Maye se odehrává v pustině Llano Estacado na pomezí Texasu a Nového Mexika. Vystupuje v něm řada známých postav Mayova Divokého západu – Vinnetou, Old Shatterhand a k potěše čtenářů i další oblíbení hrdinové jako Hobble Frank, Dlouhý Davy, Tlustý Jimi či „duch prérie“ Bloody Fox. Ti všichni bojují s padouchy, kteří kradou tyčky, jež ukazují správnou cestu pouští, a přesunují je jiným směrem, aby své oběti zahubili žízní a mohli je snadno oloupit.

Seen through the eyes of a French Catholic missionary, Death Comes for the Archbishop is a tale about the development of the 19th-century American Southwest as the Indians and Spanish deal with each other and the arriving Americans.

In diesem spannenden Roman beschreibt Jack London einen herausragenden Mann: Goldgräber in Alaska, Minenbesitzer, Börsenspekulant und Gründer des modernen San Francisco. Ein langer Weg, bis er sein Glück und seine Liebe bei Dede Mason findet. Burning Daylight hat tatsächlich existiert und Jack London als Vorlage gedient - Jack Londons sozialdarwinistische Vorstellungen vom Überleben in der Natur, einer seiner besten Romane.

Neben "Winnetou", "Der Schatz im Silbersee" und "Durch die Wüste" die vierte großartige Karl-May-Produktion des Westdeutschen Rundfunk...

An der spanischen Atlantikküste beginnt die Handlung dieses Romans mit einem heimtückischen Mord und einer Kindesentführung. Viele Jahre später enthüllt sich. das Schicksal des jungen Fährtensuchers und Pferdebändigers Tiburcio Arellano in den Weiten der mexikanischen Sonora-Wüste. Ihm zur Seite stehen der legendäre Waldläufer Bois-Rosé und sein Begleiter Pepe Dormilón sowie der Komantschenkrieger Falkenauge.