Rivers West (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel

by Louis L'Amour

His dream was to build magnificent steamboats to ply the rivers of the American frontier. But when Jean Talon began his journey westward, he stumbled upon a deadly conspiracy involving a young woman’s search to find her missing brother, and a ruthless band of renegades. Led by the brazen Baron Torville, this makeshift army of opportunists is plotting a violent takeover of the Louisiana Territory. Jean swears to find a way to stop this daring plan. If he doesn’t, it will not only put an end to all his dreams; it will change the course of history—and destroy the promise of the American frontier.

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published September 30, 2025

About the author

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and the Sackett series. L'Amour also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (The Haunted Mesa), non-fiction (Frontier), and poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films. His books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death, almost all of his 105 existing works (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) were still in print, and he was "one of the world's most popular writers".

Reviews

[Phillip Hatfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

L’Amour Eastern set Western.

Good rollicking read.
As usual, L’AMour’s protagonists have near superhuman abilities and skills, integral characters appear out of nowhere, and there are near plot holes; but still the book is a fine and thoroughly enjoyable read chock full of historical facts and tidbits.
This edition is part of the Lost Treasure series of LAmour’s works and there is a wonderful afterward by his son Beau which details some of the book’s issues and his father’s battles against editing.

[J. T. K. Tobin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Louis always writes something entertaining. This one is full of fisticuffs action and is short enough to finish very quickly. This book has shadows of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer tucked into its pages.