I loved this book. Short and sweet.

One of my reading challenge prompts was to read a genre I've never read before.

Well I've never read a Western fiction and asked for author recommendations and this was my pick.

This read just like a John Wayne movie. I can just picture the tumbleweed rolling and the old times saloons. Very cool read and even involved a badass woman business owner.

A different style

I don't know if it was because this started as a short story, but it was a different style than most of his. Strange cut scenes and a jumping around with the characters. It was like there were four short stories related to each other and just stitched together.

Awesome short western.

Kiowa Trail was a fairly standard western novel, I suppose, although I am fairly new to the genre and to Louis L'Amour. I admire his life and his work ethic, and if I seem to be critical of his works sometimes for being less than original, I do it while keeping in mind that he helped define the genre. I really enjoyed the flashbacks to Conn Dury's life story, as well as his early interactions with Kate Lundy. I did find it implausible that Conn and Kate would have waited as long as they did to be more than business partners, but that tension works well with the story.

A Louis Lamour book is always a winner

I'd like to read it also, but as a CD it's a 4 star for me.

A good one. A gunfighter story.

I found this on book on tape at a Goodwill store, and of course I snapped it up. I grew up on Louis L'amour westerns. At 14 while most girls were swooning over Pride & Prejudice, I disappeared into shoot 'em up westerns.

It had been so long since I read this one, I'd forgotten what happens. In a way, this one is a bit unusual for a Louis L'amour. It is more character driven than most of them, yet there is still plenty of gunfights and fighting. No fist fight, and the mystery of the main character's back story is told in flash backs that break up the main action (since most of that main action is a siege of a town). It also is a tad unusual in how it ends, but I won't give that away.

Another very good Louis L'Amour read. The had a buildup for a big showdown and when it came it was satisfying and NOT as violent as it could have been. Good enough action and colorful characters.
One thing a little puzzling to me was the title of the book, in that the Kiowa Trail was never mentioned, and Kiowa warriors were not mentioned very much till the last section of the book.

Picked this book up on holiday in Idaho, and I must say that as far as the genre "Western", Louis L'Amour packs the right guns. Good action, filled with double-dealing and with (most of) the good guys winning, Kiowa Trail moves to affirm that all people (Apaches, Texan cowboys, and the many immigrants from Europe moving to settle the West) are worthy of respect. Those grasping and greedy people who seek to exploit and diminish others don't do well, and too right says the reader. While some may complain that here and there some action is a little improbable (such as the desertion of the bad guy by his various henchmen over the violation of the code that no one should shoot a woman), L'Amour here shows why he was such a successful writer of the Western novel, and why there were so many western movies made. A great vacation read!

Great western. Especially liked the character of Con Dury.