The Strong Shall Live

What a beautiful story of determination, typical of men of the "frontier". Action, Justice and plunged into a mythical era of the United States.

"Where's the Grub-Pile?" This is typical because this is the type of language everybody in this book speaks. Well the whole point of this book: to me is to show a life moral. Louis L'amour has got to the point with the western setting and characters, also the plot and language spoken all falls right together. This is a great western, action, and drama story.READ THIS! The Book starts out with a big fight, well I won't spoil it so READ and find out. The setting of this story has been scattered around the countryside of this Novel. The many settings in this story brought out a lot more characters. The creation and development of the characters has followed the type of setting that was layed out. Quote " Throw it", Sutton suggested "but if you do you will follow it" unquote. This quote was preceded bya conflict a main part in this story. The plot of this story is very confusing, it seems that this story has a few to many climaxes it starts out slow with many conversations and climaxes are conflicts man-vs- man and some man-vs-nature. Quote "I shall live, I shall see him die" unquote Man-vs-Nature (Sutton-vs- the desert)! The language of this story plays a big role. The language sets the whole mood for the western setting. Language spoken English dialect-old style country-western. In conclusion this is all the info so pick up this book and read it now! Just remember Louis L'amour is a great western series writer. GOOD BOOK READ IT!

It was back in Nov. of 2000 when I read this book. So I had to find it in my library and read my comments. It must have been, and therefor still is, a very good read. All stories were very good was my short comment.

L'Amour's best story collection was 1975's WAR PARTY, but this 1980 follow-up has some great moments as well.Most of all I want to comment on the story "Bluff Creek Station," a powerful re-write of an earlier pulp story called "The Blood of Ryan." I believe this story is one of L'Amour's finest moments, right up there with FLINT, REILLY'S LUCK, THE DAYBREAKERS, and the story "The Gift of Cochise" (collected in WAR PARTY.) It is the story of a stagecoach stationmaster's last moments of life. Unforgettable. It is alone worth whatever you pay for this book-- my favorite western short story next to O.Henry's "Pimienta Pancakes."All in all, a great anthology. Buy it.