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"I think of myself in the oral tradition--as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of a campfire. 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, events, 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 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. L'Amour left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs, including seaman, lumberjack, elephant handler, skinner of dead cattle, and miner, and was an officer in the transportation corps during World War II. During his "yondering" days he also circled the world on a freighter, sailed a dhow on the Red Sea, was shipwrecked in the West Indies and stranded in the Mojave Desert. He won fifty-one of fifty-nine fights as a professional boxer and worked as a journalist and lecturer. He was a voracious reader and collector of rare books. His personal library contained 17,000 volumes.
Mr. L'Amour "wanted to write almost from the time I could talk." After developing a widespread following for his many frontiers and adventure stories written for fiction magazines, Mr. L'Amour published his first full length novel, Hondo, in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 120 books is in print; there are more than 300 million copies of his books in print worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors in modern literary history. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and more than forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and television movies.
The recipient of many great honor and awards, in 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress in honor of his life's work. In 1984 he was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.
Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988. His wife, Kathy, and their two children, Beau and Angelique, carry the L'Amour publishing tradition forward with new books written by the author during his lifetime to be published by Bantam.
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, events, 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 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. L'Amour left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs, including seaman, lumberjack, elephant handler, skinner of dead cattle, and miner, and was an officer in the transportation corps during World War II. During his "yondering" days he also circled the world on a freighter, sailed a dhow on the Red Sea, was shipwrecked in the West Indies and stranded in the Mojave Desert. He won fifty-one of fifty-nine fights as a professional boxer and worked as a journalist and lecturer. He was a voracious reader and collector of rare books. His personal library contained 17,000 volumes.
Mr. L'Amour "wanted to write almost from the time I could talk." After developing a widespread following for his many frontiers and adventure stories written for fiction magazines, Mr. L'Amour published his first full length novel, Hondo, in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 120 books is in print; there are more than 300 million copies of his books in print worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors in modern literary history. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and more than forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and television movies.
The recipient of many great honor and awards, in 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress in honor of his life's work. In 1984 he was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.
Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988. His wife, Kathy, and their two children, Beau and Angelique, carry the L'Amour publishing tradition forward with new books written by the author during his lifetime to be published by Bantam.
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REVISITING LOUIS L'AMOUR'S EARLIER PULP WESTERNS,
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This review is from: West of the Tularosa (Mass Market Paperback)
This latest release in the string of Louis L'Amour short story westerns from Leisure Books is certain to be a success. The others to date have been BIG MEDICINE, TRAILING WEST, GRUB LINE RIDER, SHOWDOWN TRAIL, A MAN CALLED TRENT, and THE SIXTH SHOTGUN, plus 3 anthologies.Back in March, 1986, Louis L'Amour and Bantam books were forced to issue two books of short stories due to another publisher's unauthorized release of stories that L'Amour had not yet issued. Those two books from Bantam were entitled RIDING FOR THE BRAND and DUTCHMAN'S FLAT. The stories within this volume just reissued by Leisure Westerns have eight of the stories from RIDING FOR THE BRAND and DUTCHMAN'S FLAT. However, as printed by Leisure these 8 stories remain the way they appeared in Western magazines of the late 1940s and early to mid-1950s without Louis' editing that he did for the two 1986 Bantam books. The story titles from the newly printed WEST OF THE TULAROSA are listed below. I've also included the 1986 Bantam book in which they appeared, and also the date the stories were published in various western magazines: Mistakes Can Kill You (Dutchman's Flat) 11/1950 The Man From Battle Flat (Dutchman's Flat) 1/52 The Lion Hunter and the Lady (Dutchman's Flat) 8/51 The One for the Mohave Kid (Dutchman's Flat) 9/54 West Is Where The Heart Is (Riding For The Brand) 4/51 Home In The Valley (Riding For The Brand) 8/49 Fork Your Own Broncs (Riding For The Brand) 5/47 West of The Tularosa (Dutchman's Flat) 3/51 As Louis L'Amour states in the forward to RIDING FOR THE BRAND, "Beginning a writing career is never easy and the stories in this collection were often written when the going was rough.". You can also sense the excitement by Louis as each one of these short stories were accepted for publication. He had worked so hard for so long, and had received many rejection slips. At long last, he knew he was finally getting somewhere, with most of the stories within the newly issued Leisure book collection being good to very good. In some ways this was a writer still honing and maturing style and voice in his chosen field. One thing that may be of interest to some new comers to the short fiction of Louis L'Amour is the Introduction by Jon Tuska for this volume. It offers biographical background information on and about Louis L'Amour. I have all of Louis L'Amour books in the Bantam Hardcover editions, over 100 in all all stacked on shelves in their saddle brown leather cover with western script gold letters on their bindings. Yet I never seem to tire of reading anything anyone still issues by Louis L'Amour. One of the smaller reasons I like his writing are the names he picked for the people who inhabit his books. Check these few out and maybe you will see what I mean: Loss Degner, Flitch, Bush Leason, Krag Moran, Shorty Grimes, Cat Morgan, Flagg Warneke, Harve Bemis, and Kim Sartain, among many others in this book and all the other books of Louis L'Amour. I've lived many years (66) yet have never run into everyday people with names such as these. I've always found that to be one of many unique facets present in Louis' westerns. So whether one is an older L'Amour reader such as myself or a brand spanking new one, these stories are certain to entertain. There is much truth in the statement that the west of Louis L'Amour never gets old or outdated. Louis' stories as Bantam Books blurbs used to say "take off like a bullet" but as I say they never get outdated and can be re-read as often as desired without getting stale. Semper Fi.
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A Collection of L'Amour's Early, Short Fiction,
By Henry Brown "Hank" (WESLEY CHAPEL, FL, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: West of the Tularosa (Kindle Edition)
There were some good yarns in here. Some felt cut a little short, probably due to their original pulp-bound purpose. A few could (should?) have been expanded to novel-length. It's easy to see why so many readers relate to this author's protagonists--they're young, strong, smart, good-looking and honest to a fault. Oh yeah, and almost always a phenomenal gunfighter, even if they punch cattle for a living. As Jeff Cooper might say, "They Ride (hard), Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth."My favorite yarn in the batch was the last, the longest, and the one from which the title of this anthology was taken: West of the Tularosa. It's on the complex side for a L'Amour tale, some whodunnit mystery mixed in with the familiar range conflict. Another enjoyable western is The Curly Wolf by M.R. Kayser. R.I.P. LL, we miss you. Henry Brown is the author of post-Civil War adventure tale Radical Times, as well as the military thriller novel Hell and Gone. He is the columns editor at New Pulp Fiction, and does some blogging of his own at the Two-Fisted Blogger.
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Great Stories - First Rate and Old-Fashioned,
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This review is from: West of the Tularosa (Kindle Edition)
If you're looking for a dose of the Old West's mythology before it got re-written to include second thoughts and anti-heroes, this is a great collection of stories. No, they aren't particularly realistic. The good guys are really good, the bad guys are pure evil, and the guy in the white hat almost always draws faster than the guy in the black hat.In other words, when he wrote these magazine pieces, L'Amour was writing within the confines of a well-established genre, and you'll find nothing here to make you think particularly deep thoughts. However, these stories are just great. Well structured, well written, suspenseful, and full of vivid action and great characters. These stories were written to entertain, and that they still do!
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