Louis L'Amour

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Louis Dearborn L'Amour, 1908 to 1988, was an American novelist and short-story writer.

His books mainly consisted of Western novels (though he referred to his work as "frontier stories"); however, he wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (Haunted Mesa), non-fiction (Frontier), poetry, and short-story collections.

Many of his stories were turned into films. L'Amour's books are still popular, and the bulk of them have undergone multiple printings.

Nearly all of his 105 published books (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length nonfiction) were in print at the time of his death, and he was named "one of the world's most popular writers" at the time.

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Life and career

Louis Dearborn LaMoore was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, on March 22, 1908, the seventh child of Emily Dearborn and physician, local politician, and farm equipment broker Louis Charles LaMoore (who had changed the spelling of the word L'Amour). His mother had Irish roots, while his father, who was of French-Canadian descent, was of French-Canadian descent. In 1882, his father was born in the Dakota Territory. Despite the fact that the city of Jamestown was largely farmland, cowboys, and cattle, visitors came or went through Jamestown on their way from ranches in Montana and the east. Louis spent a significant portion of his free time at the Alfred E. Dickey Free Library, particularly reading the works of nineteenth-century British historical boys' author G. A. Henty. "[Henty's jobs] aided me to start training with a wealth of information that even my teachers didn't have about wars and politics," L'Amour said once.

Dr. LaMoore and Emily took to the road after a string of bank failures devastated the upper Midwest's economy. Louis and his adopted brother John were both exiled from school in 1923 and moved south. They skinned cattle in west Texas, baled hay in the Pecos Valley of New Mexico, and worked in the mining industry of Arizona, California, and Nevada, as well as in the Pacific Northwest's sawmill and lumber camps for the next seven to eight years. Louis met a variety of people in his books, many of whom he later modeled the characters in his books, some of whom had lived in the 1920s and 1930s, many of whom were actual Old West characters who hadn't existed in the 1920s and 1930s.

Louis, a mine consultant, professional boxer, and merchant seaman, has travelled around the world, sometimes with his family, sometimes not. He visited all of the western states, Japan, China, Borneo, the Dutch East Indies, Arabia, Egypt, and Panama, before heading with his parents to Choctaw, Oklahoma in the early 1930s. He changed his name to the original French word "l'Amour" and settled down to try to make a name for himself as a writer.

He had success with poetry, essays on boxing, and editing sections of the WPA Guide Book to Oklahoma, but the dozens of short stories he was churning out were met with no acceptance. In the final version of L'Amour, a magazine that featured what was ostensibly written, the writer of several books on writing, Joseph Woodford, is included in the same edition as L'Amour) alongside scantily dressed young women or completely naked young women. L'Amour's first story for money, Anything for a Pal, was published in True Gang Life many years ago. Two leaning years came after that, and then, in 1938, his stories began to appear in pulp magazines more often.

L'Amour created the mercenary sea captain Jim Mayo's character in several adventure and crime tales. The series began with East of Gorontalo, and it continued through nine episodes from 1940 to 1943. Prior to World War II, L'Amour wrote only one story in the western genre. The Town No Guns Could Tame is a fictional story.

L'Amour, an itinerant worker, travelled the world as a merchant seaman until World War II's outbreak. He served in the United States Army as a lieutenant with the 362nd Quartermaster Truck Company during World War II. L'Amour wrote articles for Standard Magazine two years before L'Amour was shipped off to Europe. L'Amour continued to write for magazines after being discharged in 1946 was Law of the Desert Born in Dime Western Magazine (April 1946). L'Amour's acquaintance with Leo Margulies resulted in L'Amour's willingness to write many articles for the Western pulp magazines published by Standard Magazines, a vast portion of which was published under the name "Jim Mayo." Margulies, who planned on launching Hopalong Cassidy's Western Magazine at a time when William Boyd films and a new television series were becoming popular with a new generation. L'Amour read the original Hopalong Cassidy books, written by Clarence E. Mulford, and wrote his books based on the original character's name "Tex Burns." Only two issues of the Hopalong Cassidy Western Magazine were released, and L'Amour's books were extensively edited to reflect Doubleday's concerns about how the character should be represented in print. L'Amour strongly disagreed with Mulford's original, much more revealing description of Cassidy; for the remainder of his life, he denied authoring the books.

L'Amour began selling novels in the 1950s. Westward The Tide, L'Amour's first book, was released under his own name, but it was released by World's Work in 1951. The Gift of Cochise was published in Colliers (5 July 1952) and seen by John Wayne and Robert Fellows, who obtained the screen rights from L'Amour for $4,000. This article's title was changed from Ches Lane to Hondo Lane, and James Edward Grant was hired to write a screenplay based on this tale. Even though the screenplay was different from the original tale, L'Amour retained the right to novelize the screenplay and did so. This was released as Hondo in 1953 and was released on the same day as John Wayne's indictment that "Hondo was the finest Western Wayne had ever read." L'Amour published a number of novels during the remainder of the decade, both under his own name and others (e.g. Jim Mayo). During this period, he rewrote and extended several of his earlier short story and pulp fiction stories to book length for various publishers.

Many publishers in the 1950s and 1960s refused to publish more than two or two books a year by the same author. Even though Louis' editor at Gold Medal endorsed his writing up to three or four people, the company's president rejected the proposal even though Louis was releasing books in other countries. Louis had sold over a dozen books and many million copies before Bantam Books editor-in-chief Saul David was finally able to convince his employer to give Louis a short-term exclusive deal that would cover three books a year. Louis's Bantam sales, on the other hand, were to exceed his Gold Medal sales in 1960.

L'Amour's career flourished through the 1960s, and he began writing a series of books about the fictional Sackett family. The Daybreakers, which appeared in 1960 and the first, were not published in the chronological order of the collection of books. He began writing five books about William Tell Sackett and his immediate relatives; however, in later years, the series has expanded to include other families and four centuries of North American history. It was an exciting initiative, and many tales about closing the family's time line were left untold at the time of L'Amour's death. With The Walking Drum, set in the 11th century, a modern romance, Last of the Breed, and science fiction with The Haunted Mesa, L'Amour branched out into historical fiction.

L'Amour's career spanned 100 books, over 250 short stories, and (as of 2010) his book has sold more than 320 million copies. His books had been translated into over ten languages by the 1970s. Any one of his books is still in print.

In Paul Malmont's 2006 book The Chinatown Death Cloud Perils, L'Amour appears under the name "Lew" as a minor character. The novel explores friendship and rivalry among pulp writers of the 1930s.

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