Louis L’Amour, the "laureate of the lariat," was born on this day in history, March 22, 1908. A veteran of World War II, L’Amour worked as an elephant handler, miner, merchant seaman, animal skinner, ...

Author Louis L'Amour and his son Beau. Louis L’Amour began writing “No Traveller Returns” in 1938. This week, 30 years after the author’s death, the novel — his first — will be published, thanks to ...

While most readers associate Louis L’ Amour with the Western novels he wrote after World War II, few know that his first published works were actually of poetry. Those were followed by magazine ...

And now a page from our Sunday Morning Almanac ... March 22nd, 1908, 101 years ago today, the day the Old West got a new lease on life. The future author Louis L'Amour was born that day in Jamestown, ...

Beau L’Amour’s graphic novel brings to life his father’s work Great writing is forever, and so, apparently, are great writers. Louis L’Amour died 25 years ago, but his timeless stories about the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In an encounter with the makings of legend, a very famous cowboy and an entirely unknown schoolmarm met in a showdown between romance and realism in the ...

Three years after the publication of her admirable Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, Jenkins returns to southern Europe, this time mapping a narrower locale. The dishes she finds in the ""heel of Italy's ...

In 1984, Ronald Reagan presented the legendary Western author Louis L’Amour with the highest civilian award the United States has to offer: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Born in Jamestown, North ...

Adventure and intrigue take a backseat to overt simplicity in "Louis L'Amour's The Diamond of Jeru." Son Beau's adaptation of his father's Borneo-set short story has the makings of an Indiana ...