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Second, there are over 30 of the classic and long-published Louis L’Amour novels and short story collections to which I have added a Lost Treasures Postscript. In these I try to tell the story behind the story, how or why they were written, and sometimes details about a subsequent movie adaptation.
Those are titled Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures Volume 1, and Volume 2. First, there’s two books of story fragments, notes and a few complete, previously unpublished, short stories and treatments. Or was it a no-brainer given your father’s talent, his huge fan base, and his wide-ranging interests?īeau L’Amour: Just to unpack some terminology: the Lost Treasures project has three parts.
On the other hand, given the sheer volume and fragmentary nature of some of the works, there would be a whole lot of work going through them and adding all the commentary, too. Question: When you first considered pursuing the Lost Treasures project, was it a tough call? On one hand, there was the opportunity to bring these pieces out into the light. The elder L’Amour is occasionally pictured not writing.īeau’s thoughtful approach to the Lost Treasures project is easily seen in the answers he sent back after I emailed him a few questions. And both volumes come with lengthy, and distinctly different, introductions along with photos of Louis L’Amour throughout the years. 2, Beau L’Amour has added extended, thoughtful commentary on each entry. Suffice it to say that Louis L’Amour fans will enjoy devouring these stories-even in their incomplete (but not always) state-and admiring the active imagination that conjured them up.īut, wait, there’s more. 2 (coming out next month), and the full-length novel No Traveller Returns, also published under the Lost Treasures banner.įar below is a review of Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures Vol. 1 (published in 2017), Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures Vol. A day or two later, a package arrived on my doorstep with copies of Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures Vol. And even stories with a healthy dose of mysticism or spiritual adventure.įollowing my recent move to southwestern Colorado (the vibrant little town of Mancos, 25 miles west of Durango), my writer pal Chuck Greaves invited me to lunch with Louis L’Amour’s son Beau. That’s a jaw-dropping output for any writer and if you only think “Western” when you see the L’Amour name, you’d be mistaken. Nearly four hundred short stories, articles, screenplays, and poems-in addition to hundreds of unfinished works that Louis L’Amour left behind when he died in 1988. What’s it like to be a writer and have an imagination that won’t turn off?
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