A New L'Amour Audio Book
How many of us remember that the Russians colonized much of the Alaskan coastline in the mid 18th to the mid-19th centuries?
I was just getting over the depression that had set in when I realized I had listened to the last Louis L'Amour novel available on Audible.com when, lo, I get an announcement that the company has just released Sitka, his 1956 historical novel about Alaska, read by Jason Culp, one of the great L'Amour readers. I don't know of any other L'Amour novel that discusses Alaska, except maybe Last of the Breed, in which we are told, at the end that the protagonist is headed to Alaska from Russia in a boat. How many of us remember that the Russians colonized much of the Alaskan coastline in the mid 18th to the mid-19th centuries? This is a story of the undeclared war between the Russians and the other European settlers for one of America's last contested territories. L'Amour, one of America's great storytellers, was an author you could always count on to provide his readers a great story while teaching you lessons about life, history, and the virtues of courage, manliness, and good judgement.