Today - March 22nd - marks the 114th anniversary of America’s prolific western novelist, Louis L’Amour. L'Amour documented the world of frontier liberty, with all its perks and pitfalls, in an extensive

To tell the tale of Louis L'Amour is to tell the tale of a bygone America, one where freedom was much easier to come by, though just as dangerous to defend. L'Amour documented the world of frontier liberty,

I read my first Louis L'Amour western novel in 1980, when I was 24 years old. I had grown up reading Zane Grey stories; my parents owned a handful of old hardback copies of them. If I had even heard of