



L'Amour the unique knowledge and understanding of people, events, and the challenge of the American frontier that became the hallmarks of his popularity. 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. It is doubtful that any author could be as at home in the world re-created in his novels as Louis Dearborn L'Amour. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-as a storyteller. "I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of a campfire.
