Shalako

He rode wild country with wilder men. He was a loner who owned nothing but his horse and saddle-and his guns.  He was a man willing to gamble his life to get the woman he wanted... He was Shalako.

Louis L'Amour's 115 title-plus bibliography is astonishing on its own; even more so given the fact that his writing career did not start in earnest until his 40s. Simply being prolific, however, does not a bestselling author make. L'Amour's Western stories, as written by a real-life adventurer, capture the survivalism and code of honor on which the American frontier mythology rests.