Louis L'Amour (1908 – 1988)
was a writer of Western fiction. Born to a veterinarian father
and a teacher mother, Louis was an avid reader He got separated
from his faimily at age 15, and worked a variety of jobs in the
American Southwest, leading to his knowledge and love of that rough
and tumble country, and the legends of an earlier time. which gave
him ideas for his fiction. He eventually started selling stories
to pulp magazines in the 1930s, and eventually moved on into novels.
These audio dramatizations are (with occasional exceptions as
noted) adapted and directed by Charles Potter for
Random House Audio. Charles Potter is a three-time Grammy winner
for “Spoken Word” is
an independent producer, scriptwriter, and professional sfx foley
artist in the audiobook and audio theater community. Charles is
a Professor of Film and Television (Adjunct) at New York University
where he
currently teaches sound design and recording. Over the years Charles
has worked to help create new audio theater production companies
including the Anglo-American Radio Drama Company. His Louis L'amour
adaptations have won Audie Awards from the Audiobook Publishers
Association. He is current president of the National
Audio Theatre Festivals, and has produced many audio plays, as well as audio
books. Most recently he directed his own radio adaptation of John
Jeter's play Dirty Tricks for the BBC.
The
Collected Bowdrie Dramatizations
 Texas
Ranger Chick Bowdrie pursued the most wanted men in the Southwest,
and he knew all too well the dusty trails, the bitter cattle
feuds, the desperate killers, and the quiet, weather beaten
towns that could explode into mayhem with the wrong word.
This Collection Includes:
- McNelly Knows a Ranger
- A Job for a Ranger
- Bowdrie Rides a Coyote Trail
- A Trail to the West
- Outlaws of Poplar Creek
- Bowdrie Follows a Cold Trail
The Collected Bowdrie Dramatizations, Volume II
 Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie was as tough as they come. But he was
also smart. And this combination was enough to scare the most hardened
outlaw. Six stories of Chick Bowdrie as told by master Western
storyteller, Louis' Lamour and dramatized by master audio dramatist
Charles Potter. This collection Includes:
- More Brains Than Bullets
- The Road to Casa Piedras
- Bowdrie Passes Through
- Where Buzzards Fly
- South of Deadwood
- Too Tough to Brand
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Bill
Carey Rides West/ The Town No Guns Could Tame
Bill Carey wanted
to tet off the farm and into the west. But he ended up on the wrong
side of the law, and now has a choice to make. • Basin
City is a place where no citizen feels safe. So they've hired themselves
a new marshal. That is, if he can survive his first assignment.
Bowdrie
Rides a Coyote Trail/ A Trail To the West
 On
the trail of a ruthless killer, Ranger Chick Bowdrie finds the
body dry gulched
and left to rot in the sun. With the dead man's horse in tow, Bowdrie
stumbles into the middle of a land dispute which may give some
clue to the murder • Bowdrie tracks
the notorious John Queen, wanted for murder and kidnapping. Riding
under an alias,
Bowdrie joins Queen's gang to rescue the pretty
niece of a powerful Texas judge. But when he is discovered, Bowdrie
must do some fast thinking and even faster shooting.
Four
Card Draw / Get Out of Town
 Winning a ranch in a poker game, Allen Ring thinks he's lucky,
until he learns that people have been murdered over this land,
and he may be next. • Fourteen-year-old
Tom Fairchild has had to be the man of the house, but when he chooses
a questionable character to help drive the family's cattle to market,
he faces dagner from an unexpected source.
Love
and the Cactus Kid/ Medicine Ground
 The Cactus Kid is fast with a pistol. But he has one weakness,
which may prove the death of him. • Medicine Ground --- a short story from L'Amour's Valley
of the Sun.
McNelly
Knows a Ranger/ Job For a Ranger
 Bowdrie
is determined to avenge the death of a friend, even after he
is shot and left for dead. • To
clear the name of an innocent man, Chick Bowdrie
pursues a murderous gang of bank robbers and cattle rustlers.
Merrano
of the Dry Country/ Law of the Desert Born
 Miguel
Merrano has a green, thriving ranch, in a valley so dry
it's about to blow away. He knew enough to take care of the
land. Only the other ranchers of the valley don't see it that
way and are starting to get desperate. • Shad
Marone killed in self-defense, but who he killed was the
sheriff's brother. Now he is on the run, ad fighting for his
life.
The adaptation of Merrano of the Dry Country was written and directed
by Beau L'Amour, son of the author.
Desert
Death Song/ Man Riding West
 Nat
Bodine knows Powder Basin - the broken, rugged country at the
edge of a dry, forbidding desert. Now he'll use all his knowledge
to hide out there, pursued by over a hundred men. . • After
Jim Gary is forced to kill a Mexican gunman in a cantina showdown,
the gunman's vengeful outlaw buddies
send Jim on the run, and give him an unwanted reputation
as a dangerous gunslinger. Now, all he wants to do is settle
down as a cowhand, but he can't escape his reputation.
Grub
Line Rider/ Down Pogonip Trail
 When
two different cattlemen stake the same land, trouble is inevitable
-- especially when neither one is the type to let the law decide.
. • Jeff Kurland is trapped with a killer
who had a pistol in his hand and a bounty on his head. But
the pogonip, a deadly icy blanket of fog and cold is coming. Death
can come be lead or by ice.
More
Brains Than Bullets/ The Road to Casa Piedras
 Banker
Tom Lindsay chose the wrong business partner, and when he is
found dead, and with illegal greenbacks missing, the clues
seem to point to the wrong man, until
Chick
Bowdrie arrives. . • A lively
country dance, a report of gunshots, a dead station
master, and twelve thousand
missing dollars. With Chick Bowdrie on the scene, justice is not far
behind.
Strong
Shall Live/ Keep Travelin' Rider
 They burned his home, and he rebuilt it. They shot at him,
and he shot back. Now he's tied up in a desert sand pit, stiff
from beatings, hot from the sun, and sixty miles from water. Only
once thought drives him on: "I shall live! I shall live to
see Sutton die." • Tack Gentry arrives home
after seven years to find the entire town
has changed, and strangers have taken over the G-Bar.
But the stranger's story that Tack's uncle died in a gunfight doesn't
quite ring true.
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Unguarded
Moment/ Horse Heaven
 A young man with a bright future, finds a wallet, and in an "unguarded
moment" chooses to take the cash. This starts him down a path that
could lead to his ruin. • When Jim Locklin
visits his older brother, he's nowhere around. But his brother's
estranged wife has taken over the ranch, and
a shifty gambler seems to be running the show.
What happened to his brother? And who is to blame?
Unguarded Moment was adapted and directed by Beau L'Amour, son
of the author.
Outlaws
of Poplar Creek/ Bowdrie Follows a Cold Trail
 Fosdick's
Store is essential to the people of Poplar Creek. But it's
getting to be more than Moby Fosdick can do to run
the place, raise his kids and stay on the right side of the wild
Tucker gang who hide out in the hills above the canyon. When his
kids are drawn into the fight, its up to Chcik Bowdrie to see that
they come out alive. • Chick Bowdrie discovers
a 16 year old murder and kidnapping, and sets out to rescue a
still-missing woman. But this cold
trail is about to lead to some hot lead.
Bowdrie
Passes Through/ Where Buzzards Fly
 Bowdrie
sticks up for Josh Pettibone, a sttubborn loner who faces the
noose of a kangaroo court. But certain members of the court may
want land, more than justice. • Bowdrie
tracks the killers of a Mexican gang.
But his prime suspect is an old "friend" of
the Texas Rangers!
McQueen
of the Tumbling K/West of Tularosa
 Ward
McQueen's new neighbor won his ranch in a dirty card game,
and is looking to take over McQueen's boss' ranch as well.
But to prove it, McQueen will have to risk his own life. • Ward
McQueen has come to the high
country
to take legal possession of the Firebox range, but he finds bullet-ridden
body of its former owner, instead. Now he is tracking the killers
-- a task that may get him killed.
One
for the Pot/That Triggernometry Tenderfoot
 Laurie
Bonnet was a mail-order bride with no experience, cooking, ranching,
or shooting. But she's going to have to learn fast, when a hired
gunman tries to force her and her new husband off their land. • In the west, sometimes a man must find unique solutions to his
problems.
South
of Deadwood/Too Tough to Brand
 Chick
Bowdrie arrives in Deadwood to bring a notorious
killer back to Texas, and he's not going quietly. • Chick
is called to investigate the disappearance of a ranch foreman with
$15,000. But from what he can tell, the foreman was no thief.
In this case, justice may demand a showdown.
There's
Always a Trail/Home in the Valley
 Cass
Bailey could not find a clue to his stolen money. When a
stranger, offers to track down the money for
a stake in
his ranch, his daughter is certain that the stanger must have
had a hand in stealing
it. • After a nearly impossible winter
cattle drive,
Steve Mehan had to get the payoff back home before a dishonest
monelender takes over the land of the families who entrusted their
cattle to him. Too late! And now his only hope is a breakneck run
to portland before the bank gets the news.
West
of Dodge/Monument Rock
 A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with
fists and a .44 Colt. • Sent
straigt from the ranch to a convent school, Lona
Markham returns to find her father a wary, careworn man, and the
ranch shadowed by brutish Frank
Mailer. But a mysterious rider in black arrives, with an old debt
to repay. A debt which may just save the ranch.
Son
of a Wanted Man
Outlaw Ben Curry's getting old, and it's time to pass his kingdom
on to his adopted son, Mike Bastian. Although Mike
feels the tie to Ben, he yearns for a different life. But when
the law comes and the guns start echoing off the Vermilion Cliffs,
the time for choosing is over.
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