Shalako (novel)

"Shalako" is a 1962 Western novel by Louis L'Amour and the name of a town that the author once intended to build. It would have been a working town typical of those of the nineteenth-century Western frontier, with buildings with false fronts situated in rows on either side of an unpaved main street and flanked by wide boardwalks before which, at various intervals, there were watering troughs and hitching posts.

The town was to have featured shops and other businesses that were typical of such towns: a barber shop, a hotel, a dry goods store, one or more saloons, a church, a one-room schoolhouse, etc., and it would have offered itself as a filming location for Hollywood motion pictures concerning the Wild West. However, funding for the project fell through, and Shalako was never built. Shalako would have been named in honor of the protagonist of the novel by the same name.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

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