The Wild West of Louis L’Amour: An Illustrated Companion to the Frontier Fiction of an American Icon by Tim Champlin (Voyageur Press, $30) is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book that honor’s the author’s love-affair with the West and its history. Anyone who has read the prolific and beloved writer’s novels will re-discover his stories in the books illustrated chapters of Western American history. A treasure-trove of images and stories of the land, the people, the history, the violence and the iconic stories of the people and place that sparked L’Amour’s imagination, it is a miniature library of the Old West in one volume. For more information go to VoyageurPress.com.