Sackett's Land (1974)
“Although Mr. L'Amour claims his writing began as a "spur-of-the-moment thing" prompted by friends who relished his verbal tales of the West, he comes by his talent honestly. A frontiersman by heritage (his grandfather was scalped by the Sioux), and a universal man by experience, Louis L'Amour lives the life of his fictional heroes. Since leaving his native Jamestown, North Dakota, at the age of fifteen, he's been a longshoreman, lumberjack, elephant handler, hay shocker, flume builder, fruit pi...cker, and an officer on tank destroyers during World War II. And he's written four hundred short stories and over fifty books (including a volume of poetry).
Mr. L'Amour has lectured widely, traveled the West thoroughly, studied archaeology, compiled biographies of over one thousand Western gunfighters, and read prodigiously (his library holds more than two thousand volumes). And he's watched thirty-one of his westerns as movies. He's circled the world on a freighter, mined in the West, sailed a dhow on the Red Sea, been shipwrecked in the West Indies, stranded in the Mojave Desert.MoreLess
Mr. L'Amour has lectured widely, traveled the West thoroughly, studied archaeology, compiled biographies of over one thousand Western gunfighters, and read prodigiously (his library holds more than two thousand volumes). And he's watched thirty-one of his westerns as movies. He's circled the world on a freighter, mined in the West, sailed a dhow on the Red Sea, been shipwrecked in the West Indies, stranded in the Mojave Desert.MoreLess
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Guest 9 months ago
The year in which they are "discussing" (Lamour's fake philosophical history lessons) was 1599. Pizzaro didn' conquoer anything until 30 years later, and it would have taken a ouple of years for the news to filter back to England and Europe.His books are full of chronological errors which to a student of history are vastly irritating.
Guest 9 months ago
If the old man is an Earl he is definitely notna "Sir", he is addressed as "Lord".I wish Lamour was more careful since he had loads of reference books to look into histories also, Most of his historical accounts are cribbed from History books.
Guest 9 months ago
Te ships'wheel was not invented for another 200 years, Just another anachronistic error od Lamour who made very many.Write Review:
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