Shalako (novel)

First edition (publ. Bantam Books)

Shalako is a 1962 Western novel by Louis L'Amour and the name of a town that the author intended to build.^[1] It would have been a working town typical of those of the nineteenth-century Western frontier. Funding for the project fell through, and Shalako, which would have been named in honor of the protagonist of the novel, was never built.

Film adaptation[]

The novel was made into the film Shalako in 1968 starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot.^[2]

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