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Alan Le May The Searchers
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Born	June 3, 1899 Indianapolis, Indiana
Died	April 27, 1964 (aged 64)
Occupation	Writer (novelist)
Nationality	American
Period	20th century
Genre	Western fiction

Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer.

He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers (1954) and The Unforgiven (1957).^[1] They were adapted into the motion picturesThe Searchers (1956; starring John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter, and directed by John Ford) and The Unforgiven (1960; starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn, and directed by John Huston).

He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for North West Mounted Police (1940; directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard), Reap the Wild Wind (1942; directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard and John Wayne, and Blackbeard the Pirate (1952; directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring Robert Newton and Linda Darnell. He wrote the original source novel for Along Came Jones (1945; produced by and starring Gary Cooper), as well as a score of other screenplays and an assortment of other novels and short stories. Le May wrote and directed High Lonesome (1950) starring John Drew Barrymore and Chill Wills and featuring Jack Elam. Le May also wrote and produced (but did not direct) Quebec (1951), also starring John Drew Barrymore.

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Biography[edit]

He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to John and Maude Brown Le May. His father was a public school teacher and his maternal grandfather (Daniel L. Brown, Sr.) and uncle (Daniel L. Brown, Jr.) were both lawyers. He first lived with his parents and uncle at his grandparents home at 3229 North Illinois Street in Indianapolis. He moved with his family, including his sister Elizabeth, to Aurora, Illinois as a teenager in the 1910s.

He attended Stetson University in DeLand, Florida in 1916. In 1918 he registered for the World War I draft in Aurora, and then enlisted and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. While attending the University of Chicago, where he graduated in 1922 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree, he joined the Illinois National Guard. He was promoted to First Lieutenant Field Artillery for the Illinois National Guard in 1923.

He published his first novel, Painted Ponies, in 1927 (about the Cheyenne and the U. S. Cavalryhorse soldiers).

Works[edit]

Novels[edit]

Pelican Coast (1929)
One Of Us Is A Murderer (1930)
Winter Range (1932)
Cattle Kingdom (1933)
Thunder in the Dust (1934) - Adapted in The Sundowners, AKA Thunder in the Dust (1950), directed by George Templeton
The Smoky Years (1935)
Empire for a Lady (1937)
Useless Cowboy (1944) - Adapted in Along Came Jones (1945), directed by Stuart Heisler
The Searchers (1954) - Adapted in The Searchers (1956), directed by John Ford
The Unforgiven, AKA Kiowa Moon (1957) - Adapted in The Unforgiven (1960), directed by John Huston
By Dim and Flaring Lamps (1962)

Short story collections[edit]

Spanish Crossing (1998). Contains 14 short stories:
- 'The Wolf Hunter' (1929)
- 'Just a Horse of Mine' (1930)
- 'Hell on wheels' (1934)
- 'Kindly Kick Out Bearer' (1930)
- 'The Biscuit Shooter' (1931)
- 'Guns Flame in Peaceful Valley'
- 'And Him Long Gone' (1932)
- 'Saddle Bum' (1931)
- 'Delayed Action' (1931)
- 'Bronc Fighter's Girl' (1932)
- 'The Young Rush In' (1929)
- 'A Shot in the Dark'
- 'Lost Dutchman O'Riley's Luck'
- 'Spanish Crossing' (1933)
The Bells of San Juan (2001). Contains 12 short stories:
- 'The Little Kid' (1938)
- 'Lawman's debt' (1934)
- 'Gray rider'
- 'Trail Driver's Luck' (1930)
- 'The Loan of a Gun' (1929)
- 'Eyes of doom' (1932)
- 'Tombstone's daughter'
- 'Star on his heart' (1944)
- 'The Battle of Gunsmoke Lode' (1930)
- 'The Braver Thing' (1931)
- 'Sundown corral' (1938)
- 'The Bells of San Juan' (1927)
West of Nowhere (2002). Contains 13 short stories:
- 'Death rides the Trionte' (1937)
- 'Mules' (1931)
- 'The Killer in the Chute' (1932)
- 'Sentenced to Swing' (1929)
- 'The Fourth Man' (1926)
- 'The Fiddle in the Storm' (1933)
- 'Terlegraphy and the Bronc'
- 'Gun Fight at Burnt Corral' (1934)
- 'A Horse for Sale' (1931)
- 'Pardon Me, Lady' (1932)
- 'Six-Gun graduate' (1931)
- 'Range Bred' (1933)
- 'West of Nowhere' (1939)
Painted Rock (2004). Contains 11 short stories:
- 'Whack-Ear's Pup'
- 'Strange Fellow'
- 'Gunnies from Gehenna'
- 'Hard-boiled'
- 'Next door to hell'
- 'Feud Fight' (1940)
- 'Thanks to a Girl in Love' (1932)
- 'Man with a Future' (1937)
- 'Old Thunder Pumper' (1930)
- 'The Nester's Girl' (1933)
- 'Fight at Painted Rock' (1939)
Tonopah Range: Western Stories (2006). Contains 6 short stories:
- 'Tonopah Range'
- 'One charge of powder' (1930)
- 'Blood moon'
- 'Empty guns'
- 'A Girl is Like a Colt' (1932)
- 'Dead Man's Ambush' (1944)

Short stories[edit]

Uncollected short stories.

'Circles in the Sky' (1919)
'Out of the Swamp' (1920)
'Ghost Lanterns' (1922)
'Hullabaloo' (1922)
'The Brass Dolphin' (1922)
'Needin' Help Bad' (1924)
'His Better Idea' (1925)
'Mustang Breed' (1925)
'The Contest Man' (1925)
'The Legacy Mule' (1925)
'Baldy at the Brink' (1926)
'Long Bob from 'Rapahoe' (1926)
'Facts an' Figgers on Cayuses' (1927)
'Old Father of Waters' (1927)
'Painted Ponies' (1927)
'The Dedwood Coach Brakes Down' (1927)
Bug Eye series:
1. 'Bug Eye Neerly Starves' (1927)
2. 'Bug Eye Loses Hisself' (1927)
3. 'Bug Eye Gets Hisself in Jale' (1928)
4. 'Bug Eye Among the Soo' (1928)
5. 'Hank Joins the Vijiluntys' (1928)
6. 'Hank's Other Pardner' (1928)
7. 'Hank Arrives Back Ware He Cum Frum' (1929)
'Are You There, Bug Eye?' (1928)
'Bug Eye's Wandering Partner' (1928)
'The Cross Eyed Bull' (1928)
'Help, Bug Eye—I Own the Town' (1929)
'Cowboys Will Be Cowboys' (1930)
'Gambler's Suicide' (1930)
'Horse Laugh' (1930)
'One of Us Is a Murderer' (1930)
'The Creeping Cloud' (1930)
'The Jungle Terror' (1930)
'The Short Short Story' (1930)
'To Save a Girl' (1930)
'Under Fire' (1930)
'A Neat, Quick Case' (1931)
'Gunsight Trail' (1931)
'The Jungle of the Gods' (1931)
'A romance of the rodeos' (1932)
'A Short Short Story' (1932, with Lyman Bryson)
'Bronc-Fighter's Secret' (1932)
'Eyes of Doom' (1932, with Lyman Bryson)
'Have One on Me' (1932)
'A Passage to Rangoon' (1933)
'Cold Trails' (1933)
'Fated Trails' (1933)
'They Sometimes Come Back' (1933)
'After the Hounds' (1934)
'Out of the Whirlpool' (1934)
'Death on the Rimrock' (1935)
'Deepwater Island' (1935)
'Fight Back or Die' (1935)
'Horses' (1935)
'Needin' Some Help' (1935)
'Pardners' (1935)
'The Blessed Mule' (1935)
'A Cowboy in San Juan' (1936)
'Dark Tropic Sea' (1936)
'Death Rides the Border' (1936)
'From an Old Timer in the Black Hills' (1936)
'Iron Paws' (1936)
'Outlaw Cavalcade' (1936)
'The Man from Arapahoe' (1936)
'Ghost at His Shoulder' (1937)
'Night by a Wagon Trail' (1937)
'A Short Short Story' (1938)
'Impersonation' (1938)
'Pinto York' (1938)
'Uncertain Wings' (1938)
'Aces Is His Hair' (1939)
'Interrupted Take-Off' (1939)
'Hell For Breakfast' (1947)
'Wild Justice' (1948)
'The Avenging Texans' (1954)
'Missing in Action' (1956)

Screenplays[edit]

John Wayne in The Searchers (1956)

North West Mounted Police (1940), directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Reap the Wild Wind (1942), directed by Cecil B. DeMille
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944), directed by Cecil B. DeMille
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), directed by Irving Rapper
Trailin' West (1944), directed by George Templeton
Story of G.I. Joe (1945), directed by William Wellman. Uncredited
San Antonio (1945), directed by David Butler and, uncredited, Robert Florey and Raoul Walsh
Cheyenne (1947), directed by Raoul Walsh
Gunfighters (1947), directed by George Waggner
Tap Roots (1948), directed by George Marshall
The Walking Hills (1949), directed by John Sturges
The Sundowners, AKA Thunder in the Dust (1950), directed by George Templeton
High Lonesome (1950), directed by Alan Le May
Rocky Mountain (1950), directed by William Keighley
Quebec (1951), directed by George Templeton
I Dream of Jeanie, AKA I Dream of Jeanie (with the Light Brown Hair) (1952), directed by Allan Dwan
Blackbeard the Pirate (1952), directed by Raoul Walsh
Flight Nurse, AKA Angels Take Over, AKA Angels over Korea (1953), directed by Allan Dwan
The Vanishing American (1955), directed by Joseph Kane

References[edit]

^Herzberg, Bob (2008). Savages and Saints: The Changing Image of American Indians in Westerns, pp. 164-65. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc.

External links[edit]

Alan Le May on IMDb
Works by Alan Le May at Faded Page (Canada)
Alan Le May on The FictionMags Index
Filmography on The New York Times
Alan Le May on The Unz Review

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In this great American masterpiece, which served as the basis for the classic John Wayne film, two men with very different agendas push their endurance beyond all faith and hope to find a little girl captured by the Comanche.

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Shelves: american-indian-wars, frontier, old-west

I was a huge John Wayne fan growing up. Like, embarrassingly huge. I had a framed picture in my bedroom. I had a thick celebratory magazine that provided descriptions of every single one of his movies (some 200 or more, including bit parts). I had a John Wayne paper doll collection! Whenever a cable station had a “John Wayne Weekend,” I’d buy a stack of VHS tapes and record for hours on end. I loved his drawl, his catchphrases, his swagger, and his big right hook.
Eventually, I grew up, and my c..more

Aug 04, 2018Jim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I've seen the movie so many times that I couldn't put a number to it; I thought I would finally get around to reading the source material. I'm gonna say it, and I can only remember saying this once before, 'The movie was better!' Not that the book wasn't good, but the movie was a masterpiece..some critics have argued that it was the best movie ever filmed.
Odd about reading the book after seeing the movie..had I read the book first I would never have pictured Monument Valley as the type of land..more

Mar 25, 2017Cphe

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Remember watching the movie a few years ago and have always wanted to read the book. A classic western themed novel. It was the isolation and sense of community, the vastness of the country that is really brought home to the reader here, so well depicted and visual.
Really appreciated the foreword written about the making of 'The Searchers' and an insight to the making of many of the TV westerns that I watched as a young child. Novel is well worth reading for the 'foreword' alone.

Jun 11, 2012Bettie rated it liked it

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Oct 22, 2009Richard rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I was glad to find this new reprint of the 1954 Alan LeMay classic. LeMay has made a reputation as a writer of stories set in Texas. He has a score of screenplays, novels and short stories to his credit. This novel was the basis of a 1956 film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. It is considered to be a great classic western movie; it, and several other Ford-Wayne westerns, including the 1939 'Stagecoach' are quoted by modern directors, including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese a..more

Jul 06, 2010Ben Loory rated it really liked it · review of another edition

it's funny, i've probably seen the john ford version of this book 25-30 times, and it never once even occurred to me that it might be based on a book.. it took david mamet's mentioning it as one of his five favorite novels to get me to actually look into it. it's a very different kind of book than True Grit, the other western on mamet's list.. slower, longer, straighter, never funny.. it's calm and spacious and mythic but still realistic, informative while still always emotional. the ending i..more

Sep 05, 2014Susan Stuber rated it it was amazing

If you are interested in the last years of the native Americans in Texas, and you want a highly nuanced, well-written and enthralling story to go with it, this is your book. I found it ever so much better than Lonesome Dove and The Son. LeMay does not try to make any of his characters into heros or villains, he simply tells the story (beautifully, without pathos) and lets the reader make his/her own opinions of who was morally right and wrong. There is no pat plot here, no foreseeable outcome, u..more

The Searchers is an excellent western novel that is loosely based on the story of Cynthia Ann Parker who was abducted by Comanches in Texas in 1836 when she was about 10 years of age. She remained a captive for over 20 years until she was 'recaptured' by white society. While living with the Comanches, she was pursued by several family members but to no avail. She did give birth to several children during her captivity. Her oldest, Quannah, became a legendary Comanche chief and oversaw the transi..more

Oct 27, 2014Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

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From BBC Radio 4 - Classical Serial:
Texas, 1848. When Comanches attack the Edwards family's settlement on the Texas plains, they kidnap two girls - seventeen year-old Lucy and ten year-old Debbie. So Amos Edwards sets out on the dangerous mission to recover his two nieces, with the help of his nephew Mart and a rag-tag bunch of searchers. Their epic mission will last six years. The concluding episode is at the same time next week.
Alan Le May's 1954 novel is a timeless work of western fiction and..more

John Ford’s “The Searchers” has always been one of my favorite movies of all time, so it was with trepidation that I turned to the novel that spawned it. I needn’t have worried. They are close in many respects and do tell more or less the same story, and yet there are significant differences between them. I am not going to play the game of which is better , but I am going to say I enjoyed both of them immensely.

May 25, 2015Simon Lewis rated it really liked it

As night falls in the Texas borderlands, a lone rancher prepares to defend his family against Comanches. Miles away, his brother leads a posse tracking cow thieves. He finds only carcasses. There are no thieves: the Indians have lured the men away so that the family can be killed. They race back, running their horses to death, and return to the aftermath of a slaughter. The only bodies missing are those of the two young girls.
All this happens within about a dozen pages, making the opening of Th..more

May 02, 2016Doug rated it really liked it

This classic Western was the source of the John Ford-John Wayne movie of the same title. The film differs in some critical ways from the book. The novel has a great, exciting beginning, with settlers lured away from their homes, leaving them unprotected from Comanche attack. Two sisters are taken by unknown Indians -- and then the long (years long) search ensues. The book has a little trouble keeping up its intensity, simply because the two searchers travel, and travel some more, and continually..more

I fell in love with the film version of The Searchers, the very first time I saw it, but I never did read the original novel. Well, I have corrected that oversight and I was not disappointed. This is not a western pulp read. It is dark and edgy, as it follows Amos Edwards, (Ethan in the film) and Martin Pauley as they doggedly search the Texas territory. for a little girl, kidnapped by the Comanches. This was based on an actual event. A good, solid read.

Nov 26, 2017John rated it liked it · review of another edition

I enjoyed the beginning and the end but found the middle a bit repetitive and boring. Certainly more gritty and realistic than the movie.

One of the best books of any kind I've ever read. It formed the basis of the John Wayne/John Ford movie of the same name which has been hailed as the greatest western and among the best of all motion pictures ever made. Reading the book, you get the sense its power simply rushed onto movie screen.
Writing a historical novel in accurate but readable dialogue, while maintaining narration in effective modern language that is not a broken version of the dialogue is extremely difficult. LeMay does it..more

Sep 01, 2019Paul rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Had he been a cow-horse you might have bought him, if you liked them mean, and later shot him, if you didn't like them treacherous.

Jan 14, 2011Jim Ament rated it liked it

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The Searchers by Alan Le May (1899-1964), published 1954
I had been curious about this book for a long time, having never read it, but knowing that I've seen the movie enough times over the years to know some of the lines, I thought it was time to look at the source. So, roughly fifty years after the book was published, I read it.
Amos Edwards (not Ethan Edwards, as in the movie) is the Captain Ahab of the book, in this case, a man driven by an..more

May 30, 2019Bryan457 rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Raids, revenge & violent atrocities between Comanches and Texas settlers.

Feb 11, 2016Marlee rated it did not like it · review of another edition

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Apr 06, 2011Gregory rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This was the best western novel I've read so far. The characters and the details of life in post-Civil War Texas are rich and flavorful. The effort put into the dialogue is amazing. Reading this novel is like living a bit in the 19th century through the lives of these people. The main characters (Amos and Marty) are simply unforgettable. This is truly a character study more than a western story. You get to know 'the searchers' over their long and perilous search like few characters in fiction. T..more

This book beautifully evoked place and time. However, I didn't read too far into because.. well, I can't say for sure, exactly. I think I could just get all I wanted from it (setting, as it turned out) from reading the first part and then looking through the rest. But I didn't feel the need to read the whole thing cover to cover because not much was really going to happen, and I was also uncomfortable with the portrayal of all Indians as evil incarnate. Maybe it's a legitimate portrayal of thin..more

My brother and nephew think the film of this is just about the best thing in the world. It’s not my favorite although I admit it’s good so I wanted to read the book. Here you get more of a sense of how much time the search took and some of the hardships encountered. Really liked it and loved the ending.

Sep 06, 2012Chrisl rated it

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Quote from Alan LeMay, The Searchers :
“The Comanches were supposed to be the most literal-minded of all the tribes. There are Indians who live in a poetic world, half of the spirit, but the Comanches were a tough-minded, practical people, who laughed at the religious ceremonies of other tribes as crazy-Indian foolishness. They had no official medicine men, no pantheon of named gods, no ordered theology. Yet they lived very close to the objects of the earth around them, and sensed in rocks, and w..more

Picked this up because it's the basis for my favorite John Wayne movie. A great deal of the story was incorporated exactly into the movie. But there were changes. And, unfortunately, for the book, the movie versions won out every time. One part of the ending especially upset me. I can't give it away for anyone who will be reading the book, but I think you'd agree with me.
Biggest problem I had was the fact that the leading man's name was Amos Edwards. Thank God the movie changed it to Ethan Edwar..more

Aug 20, 2008Misfit rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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There's a whole lot of story packed in these 270 pages! Wow, I would never have believed how good this was. I remember being disappointed when the book arrived, because I had assumed such a big story would of course be a BIG book. I usually won't touch a book under 400 pages, the bigger the better. I was wrong in this case, what an awesome story -- five long years searching for little Debbie.
The characters were wonderful, many tragic moments where you want to just cry, and other moments along t..more

Jun 05, 2014Jim Kennedy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Really, really good. Not quite what I was expecting, this is a serious, sad, dark tale, not normally what I go for, but brilliantly told and I was riveted. The Indians, the white men and the land and time they inhabit just engulfed me from start to finish. I'm going to have to watch the movie. And I will be reading more from LeMay.
This story will be staying with me for a while I think.

This will be a book-cum-film review, if that's allowable.
I read Alan le May's novel having decided that it was time I gave John Ford's film proper consideration. Given that Ford and Wayne are generally held to have made one of the best westerns ever in 'The Searchers', and given that I have always found it hard to see why that opinion is so held, I thought that reading the original novel would help.
I've concluded that I probably rate Ford's adaptation more highly than Alan le May's original.
Firs..more

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I'm sure many are familiar with the classic John Wayne film version of the novel. It is a cinematic classic western. By the same token, clearly not as many are familiar with the LeMay novel on which the film is based. The novel is clearly one of the best westerns of all time. At it's heart the novel is a classic quest novel-- recovery of a child stolen by Indians after the family is massacred. Yet, the novel expands on this classic concept wonderfully. The description is fantastic. The moods and..more

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