L'Amour received them both. "I thought it was very interesting," he told Mary Scott Dye in an interview for
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, "that over half of the other recipients of the Medal of Freedom who were on the platform with me had read my books."
A Frontier Life Commences
Louis Dearborn LaMoore was the seventh and youngest child of Louis Davenport LaMoore, a veterinarian, and his wife Emily. L'Amour (who changed the spelling of his name after he began his writing career) claimed that he could trace his ancestry in America back to the seventeenth century. His father was a state veterinarian who also served the community of Jamestown, North Dakota, as deputy sheriff, policeman, and alderman. Both L'Amour's parents were educated and adaptable beyond the demands of the North Dakota prairie. "As horses gave way to tractors for farm work," declared Robert L. Gale in his study Louis L'Amour, "Doc LaMoore began to sell steam threshers, soon finding himself able to repair such implements. Emily LaMoore ... is remembered as a quiet person, a passionate gardener, an avid reader, an amateur poetess, and a splendid storyteller."
Their youngest son Louis grew up in a household that appreciated education, enjoyed reading, and recognized the value of physical fitness.
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