LAST EDITED ON 04-03-14 AT 03:53 PM (Pacific Time)
 
Find a misspelling, typo, or glaring error in logic in one of Louis' books? Well this is the place to let us know. We'll compile the list and get it off to the publisher in an effort to get them corrected.

NOTE: Any changes will be gradual and may not show up for years depending on the printing schedule and logistics involved in making changes. But we'll give it our best effort.

ALSO: Please don't include printing or binding errors such as the last half of the book bound in upside down or missing chapters or duplicate chapters in a book. These are packaging errors and must be dealt with by the original retail seller of the book to you.

Thanks in advance for your help!!

Paul

Hi Paul,

One possibility in "Get Out of Towm" sent to you by email. Too long to paste into the forum.

Hal Hall

Thanks Hal. I've got it but I think it slipped through at Bantam. One of the reasons for gathering a bunch of corrections is I can follow up more easily and also be sure they put someone on it and get it all done at once.

Someone quite recently wrote in about an error in consistency in Utah Blaine, something to the effect that a character was lynched but was later referred to as having been shot, or vice versa.

Here it is. It was from the eagle-eyed Peter:
Just started reading this a few minutes ago. On page 5 a man named Gid Blake is said to have died in a shootout with vigilantes. Then on page 6 you find this: "He was not at all satisfied about the hanging of Gid Blake..."
I occasionally see misspelled words in books but I don't ever remember seeing anything like this before.

Hi. In The Sackett Brand, LL mistakenly writes Ange Kerry out of Tell's life. Please correct!

If we are going to use any help you can give us there must be page numbers and A BIT OF TEXT so we can search it in a computer file.

We are looking for CONCRETE issues, he says on thing here and another thing there, or mis-spellings or typos.

I won't be rewriting bits of stories to correct things unless it was obvious to me what Dad intended and probably not even then. But I really do appreciate the help in perfecting our product.

hi Beau. It looks like you're directing "SPECIFICS" at my post, but I was totally joking, kidding. Not that we did not feel so sorry for poor ole' homely Tell when Ange was killed...but the post was meant strictly facetiously.

LAST EDITED ON 04-06-14 AT 12:32 PM (Pacific Time)
 
Toofpic...
your jocularness is quite joshingly impressive and much appreciated for humor contained within-herein

thanks my friend...yes I was a joc in high school, but not any more, long ways back.

I laughed out loud when I read this. I think pretty much everyone agrees with your sentiment. I would think he could have written the same story except for having her get kidnapped and it would have worked just as well. Oh well.

Peter

Error in The Man from the Broken Hills: Chapter 17, p. 173: Milo Talon is speaking: "If I were you...I'd talk to my pa first." Should read, "If I were you...I'd talk to YOUR pa first." Milo Talon's pa is deceased.

In The Man from the Broken Hills there appears to be a map error at the beginning of the book. In Chapter 26, p. 258, Milo Talon speaking, "...I started due east toward the head of Five Mile Creek." P. 259, "Nightfall found me under some bluffs near the head of Little Bluff Creek." Same page, "...the Llano was about eight or nine miles due SOUTH." The map shows Five Mile Creek and Little Bluff Creek already south of the Llano. There are other actions in chapters 26 and 27 that happen NORTH of the Llano, so changing the word SOUTH to NORTH would not solve the problem. The map could be changed showing the two creeks to be NORTH of the Llano, unless they are south of the Llano in reality.

Somewhere I remember this error, "The horse raised his head, with water dripping from his nozzle." Can't remember where I saw it. Will have to do some research.

Error in Kiowa Trail, Chapter 7, p. 89: "He was one man alone, and he rode a MULE." P. 91: "He came riding up to the saloon and dismounted, tying his HORSE to the hitch rail." There are other references made to MULE, so it should be MULE.

Somebody once said that in one of the Sackett books someone does battle with a woolly mammoth. Maybe you could switch it to a mountain lion, or something else a little less anachronistic.

This fight took place in the last chapter of Jubal Sackett. LL's note at the end of the book: "According to scholars mammoths died out around 6000 B.C. Nonetheless, American Indians record hunting and killing them. One such report occurs in the Bureau of Ethnology report, The Ponca Tribe...David Thompson, the distinguished Hudson's Bay Co. explorer, on January 7, 1811, came upon some tracks near the Athabasca River in the northern Rockies which the Indians told him were those of a mammoth...

And if Jubal Sackett had done battle with the Wendigo, that too would strain my credulity!

The Wendigo are going to eat you alive for not believing in them.

ROFL Thanks for the heads-up!

Paul, I found an error in The Sackett Companion, pp. 254-255: On the chart of The Sackett Family Tree, there is line above Yance and Temperance Penney connecting them as if they were siblings. That line should not be there.

Monuments Rock, third paragraph in Here Ends the Trail...Big Band should be Big Bend, I'm pretty sure.

LAST EDITED ON 04-14-14 AT 03:31 PM (Pacific Time)
 
Oh man you guys are like stealthy ninjas in your quest for LL's syntax boo-boo's, typos, flubs and misspellings along with errant mistakes...
I got so used to them over time that I've actually come to expect them and welcome them as old friends with me totally understanding of them as having been true to Louis L'Amour's "style"
Without them I'd hesitate to identify his fiction because his yonderings are not perfect but down to earth "tall-tales shared by the campfire stories".
I daresay that I kind of cherish them; although I agree I'm not against correcting/fixing some in need.
Methinks as I caught this stuff annoyed me little; because in my deepest thoughts I've always sort of looked the other way knowing at the time having properly in my minds eye fixed a gaze upon LL sitting with an old beat-up typewriter on his lap or desk hacking away at the keys feverishly attempting closure at seeing how/where the story goes.
With me always, every-time, all of the time the better customer for its resulting happiness-satisfaction in my soul's partaking of another cherished good read...nuff said

I kinda like 'em too...the boo-boos seem just to show the humanity in the man. But, the suits want them fixed, so I'll send one in if it shows up.

I'm not uttering nuttin and you're notta gettin a "peep" ought a me
I know where they are so some's just a gonna have to go out, have some fun, and find 'em all like I've done.
You'd have to torture me...

Yes--and further up the road past the falls is an interesting fish hatchery---all trout for stocking the Little Tennessee River once a year. At the Bald River Falls--get out of your car and hike the trail that follows the river, up-stream for about 5 miles. Great hiking !!

Another horse/mule error: The Mountain Valley War, beginning of chapter 11, p. 94: "At daybreak Ma Hatfield was off to Cedar riding a sorrel MARE..." P. 95: "She came up the back street and rode at once to the back door of the Crystal Palace. Tying her MULE, she tapped gently."

Is there no such animal as a mare mule; or no such animal as a sorrel mule?

LAST EDITED ON 04-17-14 AT 09:21 AM (Pacific Time)
 
a rare sorrel mare mule eunuch indeed
I agree with Sailboat and 10987654321,
I peeked at some beautiful pictures of Bald River Falls Little Tennessee River...nice
and my thanks to Sailboat's recommendations listed under "Help us Identify Errors Typos"

I stand corrected; there is such a thing as a mare mule, although rare, as Rick said.

Error in North to the Rails: Chapter 1, p. 3: "...a cattleman told him of a herd that was being held outside of Las Vegas, Nevada..." Should be Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Spelling and punctuation errors in Mustang man, paperback, 1981 edition:
P. 19 (center): "There AS (was) a place in the cap rock."
P. 49 (bottom): "at the end of several TRIALS"
(trails).
P. 81 (top): "You're alive THEM" (then).
P. 90 (top): "Hold easy on that trigger son I'm huntin' help," (son
P. 112 (center): "I knew we WEERE (were) riding..."
P. 116 (center): "...seeing it slip away from THEN" (them).
P. 120 (center): "...I've noticed that a ten-GUAGE shotgun..." (ten-gauge).
P. 127 (bottom): "...whether it was their idea OF (or) his..."
P. 130 (bottom): "I tell you it was further this WAS (way)."
P. 136 (top): "...for scarcely another mile when in, glancing around..." (when, in glancing around).

The Sackett Companion, p. 229: "Mogollon Rim: Although the name is Spanish, the pronunciation is not." The pronunciation IS Spanish. Mogollon is pronounced mo-go-yon (in Spanish). Muggy-own is the anglicized version of Mogollon.

The Proving Trail, paperback p. 263: "It was a LONG cabin at a place called The Gap..." Should be LOG cabin.

The Rider of Lost Creek, 1993, paperback:
P. 7: "...he'll chose his own way..." CHOOSE

The term "Apple Canyon" is used throughout the book. However, there are four instances when "Apple Valley" is used in error: pp. 72, 73, 75, 86.

The title of the book is The Rider of LOST CREEK.
On page 89 it is referred to as Lost Valley and on page 105 it is referred to as Lost Creek Valley.

P. 103: "Kilkenny was no nearer discovering the killer now THAT in the beginning..." THAN

The Trail to Seven Pines, 1993, paperback: p. 133 (top): "...and his nozzle was stuck full of pear thorns..." Should be MUZZLE.
p. 160 (top): "...and a crook of the first water." Should be "first ORDER".
p. 167 (very top): "...walked to the edge of the bin..." Should be "edge of the RIM."

The Sackett Companion, p. 188: "Colborn (Pa) Sackett: Father of William Tell, Orrin, JIM, Bob and Tyrel Sackett,..." JIM should be JOE.

Under the Sweetwater Rim, paperback, 1971:
P. 63 (center): "The small FIRED glowed from red coals." Should be FIRE.
P. 129 (center): "Ten Brian watched warily Reuben Kelsey had nerve,..." Should be a period " . " after warily.
P. 144 (bottom): "beyond the pile of FIREWEED..." should be FIREWOOD.

Utah Blaine, paperback, 2009, p. 68 (top): "Fox, at Table Mountain, was between Nevers and the bulk of the 46 range." According to the map at the front of the book, Fox was way south of Nevers and south of the 46.

The Sackett Companion, p. 322, Brands:
Add: MT (brand), Ride the Dark Trail
Add: /SS (brand), Treasure Mountain (Tyrel Sackett's brand.
P. 326, Hotels:
Add: La Fonda Hotel, The Daybreakers.
P. 329: Songs in the Sackett Novels
Add: Streets of Laredo, Sackett

Where the Long Grass Blows, 2009, paperback.
P. 102 (center): "It's surely isn't clear..."
Should be "It surely isn't clear..."
P. 121 (bottom): "Well have to wait and see..."
Should be, "We'll have to wait and see..."

The Walking Drum, paperback, 1985, p. 420 (top): "A ridge lay athwart our path, a BRIDGE like a great wall..." BRIDGE should be RIDGE.

Sackett's Land, paperback, 1975, p. 129 (center): "...I fell on on the churned up sand..." Delete "on".

To the Far Blue Mountains, paperback, 2010:
p. 85 (center): "It did no good to tall them nay."
Tall should be tell.
p. 234 (center): "We helieve he will speak..."
Helieve should be believe.
p. 235 (bottom): Barnabas...?" Should be "Barnabas...?" (double quotes)
p. 297 (bottom)-298 (top): "...he would at once sunrise something wrong..." Sunrise should be surmise.
p. 316 (top/center): "For three weeks we waited and saw no sail." Two paragraphs down: "On our fourteenth day we saw a sail." Two opposing statements.

Jubal Sackett, paperback, 1986:
p. 278 (very top): "...glancing from his helm, and stunning him." HELM should be HELMET.
I have read this novel five times in the last five years. My all time favorite.

The Daybreakers, paperback, 2000:
p. 59 (bottom): "New Nexico is now part of the United States." Should be New Mexico.
p. 115 (top): "Watching Dry drive away..." Dry should be #####.
p. 165 (top): "We dusted the trial into Tres Ritos." Trial should be trail.
p. 179 (center): "Would it be Jonathan Pritts himself? It it was..." Should be "If it was..."
p. 194 (very top): "sunshine and Orin took Ma..." Orin should be Orrin.

p. 115: "Dry should be #####."

p. 115: Dry should be D r u.

Lando, paperback, 2010:
p. 39 (center): "Hearing footsteps on the travel..." Travel should be gravel.
p. 57 (center): "You father actually found the wreck...: You should be your.
p. 74 (center): "...an odd feeling to known all the miles..." Known should be know.

Sackett, paperback, 1971:
p. 14 (center): "That rail was narrow..." Rail should be trail.
p. 78 (bottom): "There was a small of smoke in the air..." Small should be smell.
p. 80 (center): "...and we cut tumber for the buildings." Tumber should be timber.
p. 109 (bottom): "...be harder farther own into the rock..." Own should be down.
p. 142 (center): "but I guess I just ain't got in me." Insert "it" between "got" and "in".

The Sackett Companion, p. 173 (top): "It was a big, wide, lovely country and lovely country and..." Delete one lovely country.

Galloway, paperback, 1986:
p. 22 (center): I took in after him." Delete quotation marks.
p. 65 (bottom): "...I came up on this bench and I decided this was there I wanted to stay." There should be where.
p. 97 (top): "but nothing like what your headed for..." Your should be you're.
p. 100 (center): "...grazing land or minging claims..." Minging should be mining.
p. 119 (center): "...poured his TIN CUP half-full of whiskey..." (bottom): "He tasted the raw whiskey, then turned the GLASS in his fingers." Should be either TIN CUP or GLASS. Not both.
p. 134 (bottom): "Part ot that was the need..." ot should be of.

Collected Short Stories, Volume 1, paperback, 2014:
p. 44 (center): "Home, mostly likely." Mostly should be most.
p. 105 (top): "...up the trail with three thousand head of longhorn steers..." and p. 109 (center): "...entrusted with these two thousand cattle..." Conflicting number of cows.
p. 322 (bottom): "...his chances a thousand to one." Should be "one in a thousand".
p. 353 (top): "Riley, what I've seen today I like. If this comes to a case in court I'd admire to be your lawyer."
"Thank you, but I doubt if it will come to that." These lines seem out of place. Who is speaking here? They possibly could be inserted at the bottom of p. 355.

The Outlaws of Mesquite, paperback, 1991:
p. 89 (center): "...he was sent to a line-camp at Eagle Rest." Should be Eagle's Nest. There are references to Eagle's Nest on pp. 96 and 97.

Bowdrie's Law, paperback, 2004:
p. 174 (center): "...that warned Judd these were-dangerous men." Delete the DASH.
p. 190 (center): "...as soon as Judd his it."
HIS should be HID.

Riding for the Brand, paperback, 2012:
p. 25 (center): "Your first, Seever!" Should be YOUR'S or YOU'RE.
p. 32 (bottom): "...a cattleman needed to calendars or clocks." TO should be NO.
p. 68 (top to center): "...the Pleasant Valley Outlet...Pleasant Valley Outlet was not far...into Pleasant Valley Canyon..." CANYON should be OUTLET.
p. 83 (center): "..than ever beore..." BEORE should be BEFORE.
p. 153 (top): "...by his gunarm." GUNARM should be GUN ARM.
p. 177 (center): "There's no call, he said..." Add quotation marks after CALL,
p. 186 (center): "Jim hesitated over Mary Ray..." MARY should be MART. See p. 179, top.
p. 187 (center): "...he heard them call Kitty, Jim Gary..." The COMMA should be a PERIOD.
p. 239 (top): "...a woman aroud here?" AROUD should be AROUND.
p. 242 (bottom): Who did he think he was, anyway?" Delete quotation marks.

May There Be a Road, paperback, 2013:
p. 219 (center): "Mayo had mounted the ladder and was just stepping to-the deck..." Delete the DASH.

Borden Chantry, paperback, 2010:
p. 68 (center): "...the old Simmons Freight Barn."
The map at the beginning of the book calls it Simpson Freight.
p. 167 (center): "I just ordered me some ham and." Should be "HAM AND EGGS."

Brionne, paperback, 1996:
p. 54 (center): "...Brionne had killed a fool hen."
FOOL should be FOWL.

North to the Rails, paperback, 1975:
p. 3 (center): "...argued with Earnshaw that they could but it on the plains." BUT should be BUY.

Leo Lessard - Hi, On page 2 in The Mountain Valley War, it lists the town as Cedar Bluff. The map, on the otherhand, lists it as Cedar Bluffs.

Leo Lessard - Hi, here is another for The Mountain Valley War: On pg. 81, there is an error. “They worked hard for several minutes, and the Quince said. “the” should be “then”.

Leo Lessard -
On Pg 65 in The Mountain Valley war, there is a citation which states that Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel. It continues by stating that it was only a few years back. This cannot be. Andrew Jackson killed Charles Dickinson and he was the only one who ever was killed by Jackson. Unfortunately, the problem is - this happened in 1806 so this could not match the timeline given in the book.

On pg. 17, Virgil Earp killing Billy Brooks is cited but according to my research at this link,(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Brooks), Brooks was lynched while awaiting trial on July 29, 1874. Also, a gun battle did take place but it was Morgan who shot Billy Brooks in the stomach, and as some stories cite - fatally. Virgil had nothing to do with Billy Brooks from what I can find.

Leo Lessard - Just to let you know, there is no table of contents in "War Party".

Leo Lessard - Not sure but...On page 91 in the Buckskin short story novel, i.e., Squatters on the Lonetree, Ann Tanner refers to her husband, Morgan Tanner as Morgan "Turner". Not sure if this is a mistake as there is not other reference to a "Turner".

Leo Lessard - Whoops, another one...Night over the Solomons does not have a Table of Contents.

Leo Lessard - Buckskin Novel - Story: Down The Pogonip Trail. Pg. 139 - quote: "They would be shelter from the wind, at least." "They" should be changed to There.

Leo Lessard - On page 204 of "The Man from the Broken Hills", major should be Major in respect to the rank.

Milo Talon: pg.129, near the bottom para, "Stable" should be "table". pg.168, about mid page, "horse" should be "horses".

In Borden Chantry, his wife's name was Helen. In North to the Rails, pg. 1, Borden's wife name is now Bess. Since North to the Rails follows Borden Chantry, and Tom was around in both, the wife's name should be the same - Helen.

Sorry...I got it backwards. In Borden Chantry, his wife's name was Bess. In North to the Rails, Borden's wife's name was Helen. The North to the Rails inference should be changed to Bess.

This is in the Short Story novel - Yondering. The short story Dead-End Drift, pg. 46, "Goldfied" should be "Goldfield".

This is in reference to "The Outlaws of Mesquite" and the story of "Love and the Cactus Kid". Pg 49, 2nd line, "winging" should be "swinging".

Why are there 2 Paul's on the website moderators? hmm..

The Warrior's Path (Bantam-1980, cover 1985)
Henry volunteers to go inland, page 179
Henry is not mentioned again until page 194
Six Catawbas escort Kin and his wife, page 185
An extra canoe is acquired (page 188), 4 persons to each canoe, where is Henry?

In The High Graders, Louis named the wilderness cabin Mike took the mule train to as Lost Cabin. At books end Louis was, mistakenly It seems, calling it Stone Cabin. (I read this book on Kindle).

The Man from Skibbereen
Bantam Books paperback 2019 Mass Market Edition
Page 78, bottom line
He started (stared?) down at them, wondering what he was doing here.

In the Bantam edition of Borden Chantry on page 167, order is talking to Lang Adams and says, “Howdy, Lang! Had breakfast? I just ordered me some ham and. Come on over and I’ll stand treat.”

It should read, “I just ordered me some ham and .”

Leo Lessard <(;oD) I am not sure if this topic has been covered and I am sure it has but...
Kilkenny listings from what I have seen are incorrect. The first book should be, The Rider of Lost Creek - pg. 69 where he first meets Nita Riordan. The second one in the series is The Moutntain Valley War - where Nita follows him and the last, 3rd is Kilkenny where he finally gets together with Nita. Seems I have seen these titles mixed up somewhere..just not sure where.

Leo Lessard <(;oD) In The Mountain Valley War, pg 157,about 6th para "quite in the dark" should be "quiet".

The Man From Broken Hills..
Page 170..Line 18..."Where is he now? Where's your brother, Ann?

He was talking to Lisa, not Ann. Ann he didn't find until later.

Should have been "brother, Lisa?.

In the Collector's Series, Page 160, 6th para, 3rd line, 7th word. "best" should be "rest".

May There Be A Road- on the spine it has "The Louis L'amouor Collection" with Louis L'amour spelled on the same spine lower down.

However, looking at other books online I have found some versions where his name was spelled correctly, and others with the above error.

Trying to verify it isn't a fake.

Leo Lessard <(;oD) "Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott and Jeff Osterhage join veterans Glenn Ford, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens and more in The Sacketts, based on two (The Daybreakers and Sackett) of the more than 100 books buy the world's most beloved novelist of the American Frontier, Louis L'Amour" The word BUY should be By. Movie