"Over the years I have been proud to write about the men and women of the American frontier. But I have written many stories with entirely different settings which I have long wanted to share with my readers.

I have collected some of these in Yondering. They are glimpses of what my own life was like during the early years. Those were the rough years; often I was hungry, out of work and facing situations such as I have written about.

Although these stories take place in a variety of locales, they are stories of people living under conditions similar to the way they might have lived on the frontier. I hope you'll enjoy Yondering."

—Louis L’Amour

Contents

• Where There's Fighting
• The Dancing Kate
• By the Ruins of 'El Walarieh
• Glorious Glorious!
• Dead-End Drift
• Old Doc Yak
• Survival
• And Proudly Die
• Show Me the Way to Go Home
• Thicker Than Blood
• The Admiral
• Shanghai, Not Without Gestures
• The Man Who Stole Shakespeare
• A Friend of the General
• Author's Tea
• So You Want Adventure, Do You?
• Let Me Forget...