Thursday, January 19, 2006

High Lonesome

High Lonesome (1962) by Louis L'Amour

Interesting little book, a quick read.

Suffers from a couple of major flaws:

1) Excessively preachy about how hard the life of an outlaw was. Would be much more effective to show how hard it was rather than just keep saying it ad nauseum.

2) Propagates the myth that a small group of white guys could easily defeat a significantly larger group of Apaches.