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Louis L'Amour

Louis L'AmourAKA Louis Dearborn LaMoore

Born: 22-Mar-1908
Birthplace: Jamestown, ND
Died: 10-Jun-1988
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Hondo

Military service: US Army (WWII)

Father: (veterinarian, police chief)
Mother: (teacher)
Wife: Katherine Elizabeth Adams (m. 1956, two children)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    The Sacketts (15-May-1979)

Author of books:
Smoke From This Altar (1939, poetry)
Westward the Tide (1950, novel)
Hopalong Cassidy and the Riders of High Rock (1951, novel)
Hondo (1953, novel)
Sitka (1957, novel)
The Broken Gun (1966, novel)
The Walking Drum (1984, novel)
Frontier (1984, nonfiction)
The Last of the Breed (1986, novel)
The Haunted Mesa (1987, novel)
Education of a Wandering Man (1989, memoir)



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