Hondo, The Daybreakers, and The Lonesome Gods are all among the very best Western novels written by Louis L'Amour.

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, ...

Louis L'Amour was the king of western novels, and many of his books and short stories have been adapted into classic movies. Across a four-decade career, L'Amour crafted dozens of novels and stories ...

They always had men on the front cover. Tall, handsome, rugged men — their rifles slung across the saddle, looking towards the dusty green, burnt sienna buttes of Colorado or New Mexico. My uncle ...

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 ...

Tourism officials say a self-guided walking tour will help provide a more complete picture of Louis L’Amour’s boyhood years living in turn-of-the-century Jamestown. It all started while conducting the ...

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 American West. This confrontation — between a ...

Louis L'Amour's Sackett series should be the foundation for the next great Western TV franchise.

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 ...

If you love Westerns, there's a good chance you love the works of Louis L'Amour. But just because L'Amour was famous for Westerns doesn't mean that's all he ever wrote. In fact, if you're looking for ...

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 his son, Beau L’Amour, who took the ...

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, ...