Excellent western from Mr L'Amour | Under the Sweetwater Rim

Good Read - Action Packed with sub-plots | Under the Sweetwater Rim | Louis L'Amour

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	• Under the Sweetwater Rim Louis L'Amour Bantam, 1984 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

LOUIS L'AMOUR

I love every book I have ever read of Louis L'amour and I have read just about everyone. most of his stories are of true places and it is interesting. I just wish he would have wrote more about Indian life.

Excellent western from Mr L'Amour

'Under the Sweetwaer Rim' is a compelling western with lots of action, terrific scenes of the vastness of the old west, plenty of sneaky bad guys and loads of plot twists.
Good stuff, indeed. One of his better westerns.
Five cactus
Crunch Hardtack

Good Read - Action Packed with sub-plots

I always enjoy Louis L'Amour books but this was definitely one of his better books. Characters were well-defined and the story line was, as usual, very good. The book started with a wagon train slaughter which included the disappearance of Army gold and the wife and daughter of two Army personnel. Their story and the story of the father looking for his daughter is good, suspenseful and full of information about the area.

I would definitely recommend the book to anyone that enjoys L'Amour books and believe that even folks that don't tend to read much would enjoy this book.

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A troop of Union soldiers and forty bad men - all eyeballing the gold, the girl, and the rogue cavalry officer

In 1988 Louis L'Amour began blazing new trails in that undiscovered country, but he leaves behind a legacy of rugged tales set in the Old West. UNDER THE SWEETWATER RIM was first published in 1971 and it's predictably entertaining stuff, a lean and brisk read. L'Amour always was a voracious researcher and this time he places his western drama two hundred miles west of Fort Laramie, Wyoming, and as the story travels, he throws in plenty of details regarding the untamed landscape, the historical landmarks, the hardy people, and such. The novel opens with U.S. Army Major Devereaux and his cavalry patrol grimly surveying the site of an ambushed wagon train. It soon dawns on the soldiers that one wagon is mysteriously unaccounted for, this the ambulance wagon packing sixty thousand dollars of payroll in gold... and transporting the Major's lovely daughter, Mary Devereaux.

Major Devereaux is up against it. Indians on the warpath. Scouts on the take. Somewhere out there, forty violent desperadoes lurk, coveting the gold and the women and they're ramrodded by the murderous outlaw Reuben Kelsey. And Devereaux's patrol, comprising mostly of raw recruits, can expect no help from Fort Laramie. Then there's devilish cavalry officer, Lieutenant Tenadore Brian, who went AWOL and absconded with the missing ambulance wagon and the gold and Mary. Major Devereaux, a very concerned father, doesn't at all trust Brian. But Tenadore Brian may just be the only hope left.

There are several intriguing character dynamics which color the story, and I'm not referring to the romantic sub-plot, something which L'Amour doesn't tend to focus on, anyway, in his novels. Instead we get the probing interactions between Ten Brian and Reuben Kelsey, two capable men who a long time ago may have been friends. And then there's Major Devereaux's ongoing distaste for Brian, whom he feels is a ne'er-do-well drifter and not good enough for his daughter. It's an interesting dichotomy because, deep inside, the Major does realize that Brian is an exceptional soldier.

L'Amour, of course, is synonymous with hard-hitting action and, while most times he lends secondary importance to the romance between the cowboy and the girl, he opens up and waxes loquacious and philosophical with the romance of the Old West. It doesn't matter how rough-hewn and uneducated his main characters are, they all bear a love for the land and a respect for nature, and there's always a passage or two in L'Amour's novels in which the writer speaks his heart thru their mouths. And I did say that there's hard-hitting action here, right? It doesn't get better than when the odds are heavily arranged against a Louis L'Amour protagonist. Because that's when the hands slap leather, the lead blisters the air, and the knuckles bleed and get swoll. This is heaven in the eyes of a modern hombre nostalgic for the perilous American Frontier. Nowadays who do we got to look at? The Marlboro Man? Alan Jackson? Billy Ray Cyrus? C'mon, now...

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Great service. Great book

The purchase on line was quick and easy. LL is at his best in these short stories. It's Louis L'Amour, what more do we need to say!
Thanks Amazon.com, as always you have a good product and good service.
Del Lonnquist

Major Mark Devereaux must track down a wagon on the run from the Indians, manned by a dashing, hell-for-leather cavalry officer with sixty thousand dollars in gold and Devereaux's daughter as his passenger. Reissue.

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