I am missing Bert and his wife, Martha this morning. For those who came in late, Bert was one of the old and now defunct group of Louis L’Amour fans and readers. It was many years before I discovered who Bert was. He was a retired General in the US Army, who wrote many of the Army training manuals on survival...and when questioned about how down to earth he was, his explanation was, “Oh, I didn’t go to West Point, Mike, I came up through the ranks.” Fortune put me in Roswell, NM on one motorcycle ride and I spent the day with Bert and his lovely wife, Martha. We visited a few of the L’Amour treasures in Roswell and I wonder what might have happened to them after Bert and Martha left us. Bert wrote TRAILING LOUIS L’AMOUR which is still available on used book sites, and guides the reader through many of LL locations. It was a treasure trove for a reader like me who enjoys visiting the locations in Louis’ short stories, poems, and novels. It’s void that can’t be filled of Bert and his knowledgeable comments and observations about the western US that LL wrote about.

"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN