Title: Killoe
Author: Louis L’Amour
Publisher; Bantam
Date: 1962 (I have the 24th printing, 1979)
ISBN: 0-353-13622-4
Length: 150 pages
Quote: “Come up to the house, boy. Tap has come home and he is talking of the western land.”
Tap Henry is about to lead his old pal Dan Killoe into a dangerous adventure, leading animals and tenderfeet to a new settlement further west. It’s another of the fast-moving adventure stories L’Amour cranked out for Bantam over the years; the easiest way to keep track of which ones you’d read was to remember the unusual family names of the main characters. Heroes? Villains? Most of them find it necessary to kill somebody in the course of the story; most of those killed deserved what they got, and Killoe gets into trouble protecting a stranger who’s appealed to him for help. You could say this story is about Dan’s and Tap’s friendship surviving the strain of their different beliefs as well as their adventures.
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