“That’s the way I’d like to be remembered—as a storyteller. A good storyteller.” IT IS DOUBTFUL that any author could be as at home in the world re-created in his novels as Louis Dearborn L’Amour. Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally “walked the land my characters walk.” His personal experiences as well as his lifelong devotion to historical research combined to give Mr. L’Amour the unique knowledge and understanding of people, eve...nts, and the challenge of the American frontier that became the hallmarks of his popularity. Of French-Irish descent, Mr. L’Amour could trace his own family in North America back to the early 1600s and follow their steady progression westward, “always on the frontier.” As a boy growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, he absorbed all he could about his family’s frontier heritage, including the story of his great-grandfather who was scalped by Sioux warriors. Spurred by an eager curiosity and desire to broaden his horizons, Mr.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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It was not a "wagon train" which had been trapped, it was a wood cutting party. I'm sure that L'Amour knew this but he says that he never revised nwhat he' written. This is the cause of so many foolish andcrude errors which are plentiful in his books.
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