Thursday, March 22, 2007

Western storyteller Louis L'Amour celebrates his birthday today. Writer of hundreds of novels and short stories, L'Amour was one of the most prolific and popular scribes of tales of frontier gunslingers and outlaws during the 20th century.



Pictured here is the cover of Mojave Crossing, which features a tale of Tell Sackett. The Sackett clan was one of L'Amour's most popular group of characters, and he would revisit them almost biannually for most of his career following their introduction in 1960's "The Daybreakers."