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...

"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...

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...

One of the best-selling authors of all time, Western and adventure writer Louis L'Amour penned more than 100 books that have sold 200 million copies worldwide since they began appearing in the early 1950s. Decidedly outside of the genteel...

Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American author of primarily Western fiction. He was of French-Canadian background, born in Jamestown, North Dakota. L'Amour's books remain enormously popular, and most have gone...

Head for the mountains this year for a dose of clean air, Wild West atmosphere, early American history and a full range of activities from a spectacular train ride to high energy hiking, biking, rock climbing and more.Weather permitting, the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge...

To the person who reads with a slightly less abandoned mind, and to the critic who does not dismiss L'Amour with ridicule and contempt, L'Amour's novels are not just the same old story with the hero of each new volume given a different name and a different colored horse. His books have changed over the years, independently of story lines or plot formulas, according to an apparent change in moral and historical purpose. L'Amour's career can be divided into three phases ...

Louis L'Amour is the best selling Western writer of all-time. The reasons for his remarkable success in the marketplace are many, but none seems as pervasive or as consistently developed in his fiction as the concept of the family in the West. The families in L'Amour's fiction, for example, his famous Sacketts, are often uprooted and transplanted from Eastern Soil to the Western landscape with their civilized virtues intact. Their romantic, idealistic, familiar attitudes serve them well...

Readers who wish to get a full sense of Louis L'Amour's productions, for whatever purposes, must inevitably take on his two blockbusters, Bendigo Shafter and Comstock Lode. These two novels, in their separate ways, continue the historical mode that L'Amour launched into with Sackett's Land, Rivers West, and Fair Blows the Wind, with the exception that the main characters of the later two novels are not members of the Sackett, Talon, or Chantry families. Both are marketed as histo...