Riders of the Dawn

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

Early in Louis L'Amour's career, he wrote a number of novel-length stories for "pulp" western magazines. "I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared went out of print," he said. "I wanted to tell the reader more about my people and why they did what they did." So he revised and expanded these magazine works to be published again as full-length novels. Here is one of these early creations that have long been a source of great speculation and curiosity among his fans.

In Riders of the Dawn, a young gunslinger is changed for the better by a meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic range-war western, this novel features that powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision of the American West for which L'Amour's fiction is known. In the author's words: "It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes."

©1951 Best Publications, Inc. (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc.

Gough’s voice is a perfect fit for western stories.

I think Jim Gough’s voice is a perfect fit for western stories and this one was no exception.

Love this book I liked in the four corners areas many of times

Great story love that he writes about areas that are real. Where are you can hike

Perfectly done

Best performer of a Louis l’Amour western I’ve ever heard
His voice was made for westerns, and the way he narrated it was perfection

Too Bad John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara Aren't Alive

Been a great movie to feature John Wayne and her! Great narrator, production and great story!

bad accents

the narrator just can't do a decent accent of any sort. Irish, Mexican, Chinese, Indian they all sound the same.

Good Man Wins

The way Matt kept moving forward until he brought peace to the place he called home and won the woman he wanted.

It was a good book!!

(I accidentally sent the review in, before Byron was finished. Now he will finish the evaluation.
A range war was brewing in this area. I was waiting to see how it would come out. I was pleased to see how they worked out their differences. And the young man did indeed marry the woman, as he had said he would!

Pulp Fiction Masterpiece

The writing is as good as Hemingway but the characters are more noble and mythic. At its best pulp fiction cowboy literature had its own genius.

live in another time

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

easy to get carried away to the frontier when the west was new

What other book might you compare Riders of the Dawn to and why?

if youve ever read a L'Amour book ....this one flows right into the rest

Have you listened to any of Jim Gough’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

yes. not only does he fit L'Amours books but the characters could be sitting right across the fire from me.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

no extreme reaction. typical western novel with more beauty in discription than plot

Great book!

This book has a great story and the reading was top notch. I loved it.