6 Books by Alan LeMay
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Overview: Alan Brown Le May was an American novelist and screenplay writer. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers and The Unforgiven. They were adapted into the motion pictures "The Searchers" and "The Unforgiven." He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for "North West Mounted Police" (1940), "Reap the Wild Wind" (1942), "Blackbeard the Pirate" (1952). He wrote the original source novel for "Along Came Jones" (1945), as well as a score of other screenplays and an assortment of other novels and short stories. Le May wrote and directed "High Lonesome" (1950). Le May also wrote and produced (but did not direct) "Quebec" (1951).
Genre: Historical Fiction | Westerns
The Bells of San Juan: Alan LeMay will forever be known as the author of the brilliant novels that became the classic films The Searchers and The Unforgiven. But his short stories are no less memorable. Beginning in the 1920s, LeMay was a frequent contributor of Western stories to magazines such as Collier’s and The Saturday Evening Post. The best of these stories, unavailable for many years, are collected here. Among the selections is "The Little Kid," perhaps LeMay’s most touching story, a poignant tale of a young boy who is orphaned when his father is killed on a cattle drive. Few writers could match LeMay’s skill in evoking the full range of emotion in his characters—wonderful, living people who fill the pages of this collection with the heart and spirit of the Old West.
The Searchers: In this great American masterpiece, which served as the basis for the classic John Wayne film, two men with very different agendas push their endurance beyond all faith and hope to find a little girl captured by the Comanche.
The Smoky Years: They were the titans of the plains, the men who carved an empire out of the vast expanses of the West. The cattle barons. They were tough, weathered men like Dusty King and Lew Gordon, who had sweated and worked along the great cattle trails to form a partnership whose brand was burned on herds beyond measure. They had fought hard for what they had…and they would fight even harder to keep it. And they knew a fight was coming. It was as thick in the wind as trail dust. Newcomers like Ben Thorpe were moving in, desperate to get their hands on the miles and miles of grazing land—land that King and Gordon wanted, and that Thorpe needed to survive. No one knew how the war would end, but one thing was certain—only one empire could survive.
Spanish Crossing: During the 1950s, Alan LeMay was writing classic Western novels that were being made into equally classic films, such as The Searchers and The Unforgiven. But he was also writing brilliant short stories, published in magazines such as Collier’s and The Saturday Evening Post, and the best of these are collected here. These stories include "The Wolf Hunter," a gripping tale of a loner who makes his living hunting wolves for bounty and the crafty coyote who torments him. Old Man Coffee, one of LeMay’s most memorable characters, finds himself in the midst of a murder mystery in "The Biscuit Shooter." In "Delayed Action," Old Man Coffee’s challenge is to vindicate a lawman who’s been falsely accused. These and many other fine stories display the talent and skill of one of the West’s greatest storytellers.
West of Nowhere: Alan LeMay dedicated his life to writing about the West. His short stories appeared in the top magazines, from The Saturday Evening Post to Cosmopolitan. He was a highly regarded screenwriter. And of course, he wrote the classic novels The Searchers and The Unforgiven, which went on to become equally classic films. Many of the best of his stories are collected in this volume. Here are stories filled with all the vitality and adventure of the frontier, and with characters who, once encountered, will be unforgettable. Here are thirteen prime examples of Western writing at its finest, thirteen reasons why Alan LeMay will always be considered one of the greatest writers of the Western’s Golden Age.
Winter Range: When Kentucky Jones turned up in Waterman for the inquest into the death of John Mason, he couldn’t help noticing that the whole town was on the edge. Beef prices were sagging, ranchers were at each other’s throats, and the ugly suspicion in every face warned him that a range war loomed in the Wolf Bench country. Then lovely Jody Ragland, looking faint and drawn, swayed toward him, thrust something into his hand, and vanished. When he looked into his palm, he was shocked by what he saw. There lay the bullet that killed John Mason.
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