Yeah, Midchuck, except around here. No one on the Mudcat has called me a redneck for liking him.**BG** I haven't read any of his westerns in about 30 years, but Walking Drum remains one of my all-time favourite books and I am about due to re-read it, I think.

Do you have the book his daughter compiled? It was done just before he died, with a foreward by him: A Trail of Memories: The Quotations of Louis L'Amour.

I would love to see his home and library. It is in one of my favourite parts of Colorado, where I grew up and the way he describes it makes it sound glorious, esp. his library.

His daughter includes this quote, from The Lonesome Gods, in the introduction of that book: "You've heard him talk. He's got a way about him, a way with words. He can make the temple bells tinkle for you, and you can just hear them big old elephants shuff-shuffling along, the priests callin' folks to prayer and the like." Sounds as though he was describing himself, doesn't it?

Thanks,

kat