Louis L'Amour was a book publisher's dream. At 6'2" and 215 pounds he looked as if he had stepped off the pages of his most recent Western novel. Combining an indefatigable zest for writing with an acumen for tireless self-promotion, L'Amour became one o...

"It was May 14. In a few days my class back in Jamestown, North Dakota would be graduating from high school, and I was in Singapore." With these words, Louis L'Amour introduces Education of a Wandering Man, his memoir that traces his self-education as he...

Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) was a prolific western writer who once said "I write my books to be read aloud and I think of myself in that oral tradition." He wrote over 400 short stories and 100 novels, as well as numerous television scripts and screenplays...

The Post gets a scorchingly hot scoop on the Post's very own headquarters in Rockefeller Center West. Boston's Beacon Capital will pay $1.5 billion for the building at 1211 Sixth Ave., which will merely amount to "the second-largest single asset sale in the world." (New...

Robert O. Anderson, whose two-decade tenure as chief executive officer of the Atlantic Richfield Co. included the discovery of North America's largest oil field, had died. He was 90.Anderson, who later formed the Hondo Oil & Gas Co., died Sunday at his home in Roswell,...

As of Friday, March 16, 2007, at least 3,208 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,581 died as a result...

Storms dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of Texas on Saturday, stranding more than 170 passengers on an Amtrak train for hours and forcing rescue crews elsewhere to pull at least 50 people to safety.Water covering the tracks in Knippa, about 75...