Louis L'Amour Author Highlight

About Louis L’Amour (1908-1988)

Louis L'Amour at the typwriter

I grew up around Louis L’Amour books. We have a number of book shelves in our house and I’ll bet you’d find a Louis L’Amour book on every one of them, I’ll also bet you that we have at least one copy of every one of his books. (Or at least if we’ve missed any I don’t know about it.)

The first one  I read was “Down the Long Hills” the story of a seven year old boy and a three year old girl who, together with a big red horse, are the only survivors of an Indian attack. I love going back to re-follow their journey through the wilderness pursued by Indians and horse thieves.  Soon after that I started in on his Sackett series and the rest of his hundred or so books followed those.