Westward the Tide (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

Written by Louis L'Amour

Narrated by Robert Petkoff, Jason Culp and Dan John Miller

Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives.

Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter—until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search of gold. After Matt signs on to join them, he discovers that there is a group of outlaws in the party—gunfighters and thieves that Matt wouldn’t trust for a minute. At first it’s unclear what they are planning, but before long Matt realizes that he’s the only man standing between innocent people and a brutal conspiracy of greed, lust, and cold-blooded murder.

In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volumes 1 and 2, Beau L’Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L’Amour’s never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas.

Additionally, many beloved classics are being rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
• Release date: Oct 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9780593634073

Reviews for Westward the Tide (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

[fuzzi_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Fairly standard yet entertaining story of a wagon train headed for destruction.

[andy_dimartino · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Excellent work, just a cut above most of his pulp westerns

[thornton37814 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Typical western. There are good guys and bad guys. There are Indians. It's a wagon train taking supplies. Lots of shooting. Much of the action in this one occurs in the Big Horn Mountains. All's well that ends well. I'm not a fan of the genre, but at least L'Amour is readable and reads quickly, making it less painful to someone who doesn't like the genre.

[merrymary_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Matt Bardoul is headed to the Black Hills, part of a large, heavy-loaded, super-secret wagon train. The goal is said to be gold, and the establishment of a new town, but Matt has his suspicions. He also has an eye on the beautiful Jacquine Coyle - daughter of one of the leaders of the train. As they move further and further from civilization, tensions increase on the company - until all hell breaks loose.

One of L'Amour's later works. In several places he segues into commentary on the "get it and get out" mentality of the western expansion and its long term disastrous affect on the environment., and on the Native Americans.