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 Tennessee Dave
Where art thou, TD? By the way, this is OtisTom. I had to change my User ID because I couldn’t get website to agree with the password. Easier this way | NoogaStrong | Dec-22-21 11:49 PM
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JAMESTOWN ND
A few years back a group of guys and a lady I rode motorcycles with rode out to Jamestown ND. They have quite a bit of information, in a tourist cont | Mike Shaffer | Dec-12-21 09:18 PM
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Hello the fire!
Had to begin again…forgot my sign in stuff.
Not much new to report…last I heard TD was not feeling too well, and haven’t seen anything else…good or | Mike Shaffer | Dec-07-21 09:13 PM
by Mike Shaffer | 3 | 599709 |
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Thank you Louis, and thank you Beau
This will be a little self-indulgent, but given my recent hospital stint with covid pneumonia. I'm feeling sad, relieved, overwhelmed with nostalgia a | Carcosa2004 | Dec-02-21 12:44 AM
by blamour | 1 | 652118 |
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It's been a helluva ride
I started reading his westerns around 1976 and read them all, and reread many. His work has been such a constant thread through my life that, honestly | milkbandit | Nov-03-21 08:20 PM
by john555 | 5 | 723207 |
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Bored
Whenever I get bored, I call the Best Western Hotel phone number. When they answer "Best Western" I say "True Grit with John Wayne" and then I hang up | DocKaty | Oct-22-21 01:04 AM
by Les Down Under | 1 | 848030 |
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 Louis L'Amour and the movies [View all]
Generally, LL has fared almost as poorly as Stephen King in translation to film. In many cases, the nuts and bolts of their stories are there, but wha | Carcosa2004 | Oct-16-21 05:35 PM
by blamour | 9 | 870506 |
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Louis' list of books to read
In an article now many years ago about LL, a side box listed the books Louis thought were essential for a person to read to educate himself/herself. ( | Kent | Oct-14-21 11:41 PM
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Judge Charles P Moore
My grandfather was a Louis L'Amour fan and Louis put his name in one of his books, but I don't know which one. He is an itinerant judge traveling by w | moore_te | Oct-07-21 12:19 AM
by Les Down Under | 3 | 907028 |
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Publishing and branding...Beau!
Having bought LL books you going on forever now, I've always been curious about publisher decisions and cover styles, etc over the years.
About the l | Carcosa2004 | Oct-04-21 02:04 PM
by blamour | 5 | 909395 |
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LL
Reread several LL books in the last couple of weeks. Never gets old. Like an old friend.
| NoogaStrong | Oct-03-21 09:15 PM
by NoogaStrong | 3 | 744672 |
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Crossfire Trail
Just finished reading this yesterday, then just now finished the movie. I've read it at some point in the past, and I've seen the movie too, but it's | epeterd | Oct-01-21 06:15 AM
by epeterd | 2 | 706128 |
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BEAU L'AMOUR
Beau, I'm trying to find out if The Haunted Mesa was ever out in audio book form whether on CD or Cassette. I read it over 25 years ago and most of h | dltrogdon | Sep-28-21 10:21 PM
by Carcosa2004 | 3 | 677028 |
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Desert flash flood
I just saw this video on reddit. It's only a shallow ditch, so only dangerous to bugs and lizards probably, but it reminded me of the times that LL me | epeterd | Aug-15-21 07:41 AM
by epeterd | 2 | 771568 |
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DRAIN THE OCEAN
The cable channel National Geographic has a series called "Drain the Oceans". They just aired a really good episode about the Wild West. They had a | john555 | Aug-12-21 05:53 AM
by epeterd | 3 | 752820 |
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OWEN CHANTRY - OVER ON THE DRYSIDE
I always thought this character would have been good for more tales.
| john555 | Aug-12-21 05:51 AM
by epeterd | 16 | 663618 |
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Jamestown Revival Fireside with Lou
I have just finished listening to the Podcast of this duo with Beau.
One of the duo made the statement that they imagined their sons being listened to | Les Down Under | Jul-30-21 05:03 PM
by blamour | 8 | 487715 |
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I've lost track of a short story
In the story a character takes papers to the town's lawyer that prove that the man is the rightful owner of the town. The town's hotel and saloon owne | bass1199 | Jul-29-21 01:50 AM
by Les Down Under | 1 | 402639 |
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Jon Tuska
I just read western critic Jon Tuska passed away a few years back. I didn't know.
Jon seemed pretty dismissive of LL's work in general, but I notice | Carcosa2004 | Jul-24-21 08:35 PM
by blamour | 3 | 401521 |
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LL and Stephen King...for Beau
In years past I've read Stephen King make a few comments regard LL, always very warm (at least what I've seen).
Did your Dad ever meet or correspond | Carcosa2004 | Jul-24-21 08:24 PM
by blamour | 1 | 393728 |
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Writing
Years and years ago I had some poetry published, as had a friend. So he and I decided to try our hand at a novel. When it came my turn I changed the | Mike Shaffer | Jul-21-21 03:17 AM
by epeterd | 7 | 346730 |
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Plutarch and LL
Seems LL was an admirer of Plutarch, more than a few times favorably mentioned in his books. In Plutarch’s “Lives” and “Moralia”, one has to be highl | Arkansas Toothpick | Jul-21-21 01:29 AM
by Les Down Under | 4 | 306208 |
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Name the LL novel:
Old Man Merridew lifted a skinny arm and pointed it the way his hawk-beak nose was already pointing. “They’s a-comin’,” he said. “There’s the dus | Arkansas Toothpick | Jul-20-21 09:52 PM
by Arkansas Toothpick | 1 | 329284 |
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SITKA...Beau question
Because I'm interested in such things...
How did Bantam seem to lose the rights to SITKA for a time, which was published by Signet in the early 2000s | Carcosa2004 | Jul-19-21 12:44 AM
by blamour | 1 | 337481 |
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last of the breed
my question is simple maybe,,, is there a or what is the name of sequel to this book?
| scoutman | Jul-16-21 02:15 AM
by Les Down Under | 4 | 336962 |
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King Clancy
Don't know if anyone here follows hockey. I don't, but I happened to see that Pekka Rinne of Nashville won the King Clancy memorial trophy. I was just | epeterd | Jul-06-21 11:12 PM
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Holiday Greetings.
Happy 4th of July everyone. Stay Safe.
Les
The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
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| Les Down Under | Jul-03-21 07:05 AM
by epeterd | 1 | 381325 |
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The Empty Land
Just finished reading this. I've read it once before, but it's been a few years so I didn't really remember it. I like how he puts Matt and Madge toge | epeterd | Jun-30-21 07:38 AM
by epeterd | 0 | 375678 |
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Alert -- To the Far Blue Mountains
I'm working on the LLLT Postscript edition of TTFBM. Central to the PS is the fact that the book's original hardcover edition was heavily edited and |  blamour | Jun-17-21 09:20 PM
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The Romance of Piute Bill
No one should ever say that L'Amour was not an author of romance lest they be haunted by the ghost of Piute Bill.
| john555 | Jun-05-21 10:27 AM
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