How the West Was Won
Good ol' fashioned shoot 'em up fun!How the West was Won follows an ancestral family tree of folks through short story snippets of their lives as played out over the course of the United States' western expansion.
L'Amour develops characters just enough to make you care if they survive the big moments of the 19th century, such as the gold rush and the Civil War. This is not brilliant prose. For instance, everything in Louis L'Amour's world happens suddenly! He fires off a six-shooter's worth of shortcut adverbs, because his stories are all about the action.
Hey, these rootin' tootin' tales maybe ain't Shakespeare, but sit back a spell, let ol' L'Amour spin ya a heck of yarn and I promise ya won't be sorry ya did!
Rating: 3.5