Louis L'Amour
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Louis L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American author of (primarily) Western fiction (see also Frontier, Western movie, and Wild West). He was born Louis Dearborn LaMoore of French-Canadian background March 22, 1908 in Jamestown, North Dakota. The last of seven children to a veterinarian father and a teacher mother, Louis was an avid reader as a child. In the early 1920s, his parents decided to pack up the family and find better economic conditions. When he was 15, he got separated from his family in the American southwest and began to work a string of diverse jobs, which gave him ideas for his fiction. He continued to be an itinerant worker, traveling the world, up to the start of WWII. In the 1930s he began to sell stories to pulp magazines. After serving in WWII, he continued to write stories for magazines. In the 1950s, he began to sell novels. He eventually wrote more than 100 novels, selling more than 225 million copies that were translated into dozens of languages and made into 30 motion pictures.
Many criticise the Western genre, but he considered himself "just a storyteller, a guy with a seat by the campfire," and at least once related that after he died, he only wanted to be remembered as a good storyteller. Given the fantastic success of his writings, the fate seems secure.
In 1982 he won the Congressional (National) Gold Medal, and in 1984 the Medal of Freedom. Louis L'Amour is a recipient of the state of North Dakota's Roughrider Award.
Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988 and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. His autobiography detailing his years as an itinerant worker in the west, Education of a Wandering Man, was published posthumously in 1989.
Non-series Novels
- Bendigo Shafter
- Borden Chantry
- Brionne
- The Broken Gun
- The Burning Hills
- The Californios
- Callaghen
- Catlow
- Chancy
- The Cherokee Trail
- Comstock Lode
- Conagher
- Crossfire Trail
- Dark Canyon
- Down The Long Hills
- The Empty Land
- Fair Blows The Wind
- Fallon
- The Ferguson Rifle
- The First Fast Draw
- Flint
- Guns Of The Timberlands
- Hanging Woman Creek
- The Haunted Mesa
- Heller With A Gun
- The High Graders
- High Lonesome
- Hondo
- How The West Was Won
- The Iron Marshal
- The Key-Lock man
- Kid Rodelo
- Kilkenny
- Killoe
- Kilrone
- Kiowa Trail
- Last Of The Breed
- Last Stand At Papago Wells
- The Lonesome Gods
- The Man Called Noon
- The Man From Skibbereen
- The Man From The Broken Hills
- Matagorda
- Milo Talon
- The Mountain Valley War
- North To The Rails
- Over On The Dry Side
- Passin' Through
- The Proving Trail
- The Quick And The Dead
- Radigan
- Reilly's Luck
- The Rider Of Lost Creek
- Rivers West
- The Shadow Riders
- Shalako
- Showdown At Yellow Butte
- Silver Canyon
- Sitka
- Son Of A Wanted Man
- Taggart
- The Tall Stranger
- To Tame A Land
- Tucker
- Under The Sweetwater Rim
- Utah Blaine
- The Walking Drum
- Westward The Tide
- Where The Long Grass Blows
Sackett Titles
- Sackett’s Land
- To The Far Blue Mountains
- The Warrior’s Path
- Jubal Sackett
- Ride the River
- The Daybreakers
- Sackett
- Lando
- Mojave Crossing
- Mustang Man
- The Lonely Men
- Galloway
- Treasure Mountain
- Lonely On The Mountain
- Ride The Dark Trail
- The Sackett Brand
- The Skyliners
Hopalong Cassidy Novels
- The Rustlers Of West Fork
- The Trail To Seven Pines
- The Riders Of High Rock
- Trouble Shooter
Short Stories
- Beyond The Great Snow Mountains
- Bowdrie
- Bowdrie's Law
- Buckskin Run
- Dutchman's Flat
- From The Listening Hills
- The Hills Of Homicide
- Law Of The Desert Born
- Long Ride Home
- Lonigan
- May There Be A Road
- Monument Rock
- Night Over The Solomons
- Off The Mangrove Coast
- The Outlaws Of Mesquite
- The Rider Of The Ruby Hills
- Riding For The Brand
- The Strong Shall Live
- The Trail To Crazy Man
- Valley Of The Sun
- War Party
- West From Singapore
- West Of Dodge
- With These Hands
- Yondering
Non-fiction Books
- Education Of A Wandering Man
- Frontier
- The Louis L'Amour Companion
- The Sackett Companion
- [[A Trail Of Memories: The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour]]
Poetry
- Smoke From This Altar
Compilations With Other Authors
- The Golden West
- Stagecoach
External links
- [Louis L'Amour official website]
- [1984 audio interview with Louis L'Amour by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio]
- [Louis L'Amour: a fan's tribute to America's favorite story teller]
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