Alan Le May
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Description
Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 — April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers (1954) and The Unforgiven (1957).They were adapted into the motion pictures The Searchers (1956; with John Wayne and directed by John Ford) and The Unforgiven (1960; with Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn). He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Reap the Wild Wind (1942; with John Wayne and Paulette Goddard) and Blackbeard the Pirate (1952; with Robert Newton), North West Mounted Police (1940; for Cecil B. DeMille), and the novel for Along Came Jones (1945; with Gary Cooper), as well as a score of other screenplays and an assortment of novels and short stories. Le May also wrote and directed High Lonesome (1950). Source: [Wikipedia article]
Books
Painted ponies
Ben Morgan's troubles began when he killed Lew Cade in self-defense, and Lew's brother truned a band of trigger-happy Vigilantes against him. (from cover)
The unforgiven
After a rogue clan of fallen angels attacks his clan of Nephilim, a fallen angel named Cade is tasked with finding a newly awakened angel to transform her into a weapon to use against his clan's enemies. But when Cade finds Maggie, he falls for her and is torn between his love for her and his love for his clan.
Tonopah Range
"After finding a dead man in the street, drifters Missouri Sloper and Elmer Law decide to help discover the identity of the murder in the title Western story. Five other short stories with unexpected endings are also included"--
The smoky years
The story of Bill Roper who seeks to revenge himself on Ben Thorpe who kills his adopted father Dusty King even if such a revenge puts him outside the law and unable to pursue the girl he loves.
Gunsight trail
Clay Hughes, a drifting cowhand discovers Doonan the sheriff shot and dying. The sheriff's message to him is not revealed by him to anyone. This gets him into the middle of a war between the lazy M of Major and the Shaws of Bar S. Sally Major tries to help Clay. This can be read in colliers weekly in unz.org as a serialized novel.
Spanish crossing
"This is a collection of fine Alan LeMay short stories, with a foreword by Dan LeMay, his elder son. The Wolf Hunter is a gripping tale about a loner who makes his living hunting wolves and coyotes for bounty, and is tormented by a crafty coyote he names the Grinner."--Publisher description.
The searchers
In this great American masterpiece, which served as the basis for the classic John Wayne film, two men with very different agendas push their endurance beyond all faith and hope to find a little girl captured by the Comanche.