Book Review: War Party

Title: War Party

Author: Louis L’Amour

Publisher: Bantam

Date: 1975

ISBN: 0-553-25393-X

Length: 152 pages

Quote: “Dead, all right. But dead drunk!”

Here are ten short stories by the classic “western” adventure story writer. All the standard elements of western adventures are here: your hired killer (with a code of honor), your gold miner travelling with a beautiful woman, your pioneer who claims to have walked from Tennessee on a diet of cougar meat and branch water (“and I killed my own cougars”). I’m positive I’ve watched some of these stories as episodes on TV series like “Gunsmoke” or “Bonanza.” Well, if you like “Gunsmoke” or “Bonanza” reruns, here is your chance to rustle up a copy of one of the books on which those shows were based.

Short review? Short book, but, for people who like this kind of thing, it’s the kind of thing they like.