Hondo (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis L'Amour
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Western fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Arizona
- Locales: Arizona
Hondo is as fine a Western novel as L’Amour ever wrote. Because its title is synonymous with that of the 1953 Western film classic starring John Wayne, most readers of the novel probably see “the Duke” in their mind's eye as the hero. In the novel, Hondo Lane is the quintessential good guy of the Old West—tall; taciturn; slow to anger but deadly when challenged; lightning fast with firearms, knives, or fists; instinctively pragmatic with women, children, and animals; and restlessly questing. At the same time, in the depths of his being, he is eager to settle...
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