Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2

More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists

By: Louis L'Amour, Beau L'Amour

Narrated by: James Naughton, Jason Culp, JD Jackson

More unpublished works from the archives of Louis L’Amour: complete short stories, partial novels, treatments, and notes that will transport readers from the Western frontier to India, China, and even the future.

Exploring the creative process of an American original, the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series will uncover the hidden history behind the author’s best known novels . . . and his most mysterious and ambitious unfinished works.

In this second volume, Beau L’Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father’s notes, journal entries, and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written as well as speculating about the ways they might have ended.

These selections include the beginnings of a post-apocalyptic science fiction tale, a proposal for a nonfiction project based on the life of Renaissance-era traveler Ibn Batuta, and two chapters of a historical novel set in India about the origin of L'Amour's well-known Talon family.

At the other end of the spectrum are classic adventures, such as “In the Measure of Time,” a chance encounter set on the high seas, and a science fiction film treatment set in Mexico, as well as seventeen chapters of a novel that reappears throughout Louis’s journals and letters and speaks to his fascination with post-revolutionary 1950s China, leading him so far as to correspond with the Dalai Lama.

This audiobook further maps the journey L’Amour embarked upon to become one of our greatest storytellers and the diverse realms to which his imagination traveled, making him a true American pioneer.

insights from the Sun, Bo

I liked it all. it was well composed and well organized. Great job one and all.

Louis Lamour tied the end of one story into another. It was beautifully blended.

I liked all the short stories, including the unfinished work. I appreciated it when he brought the children in the family to our attention and enjoyed their personalities.

Byron

The magic of Louis lampreys

I really enjoyed the stories-even if they weren’t complete. I loved the explanations discussed by Beau also.

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if you want to know more about the man behind the stories, and hear some more great stories, this is vital information. love this series, thanks Beau