Biography of Louis L’Amour

In a colourful life that left him with experiences as diverse and as far ranging as a life in the army, professional boxing, where he won 51 of 59 fights, and adventuring where he survived a ship wreck in the West Indies and was left stranded in the Mojave Desert, Mr L’Amour took to a writing career that saw him publish as many as a hundred books with over 270 million being in print worldwide.

Of French-Irish descent, Louis L’Amour was born Louis Dearborn LaMoore in 1908. He spent his childhood in Jamestown, North Dakota on a medium-sized farming community. His father, Dr LaMoore, was a veterinarian, but soon took to other jobs as times changed.

L’Amour’s grandfather, Abraham Truman Dearborn, came to live with them while he was still young, and it was he, along with his uncles, who started L’Amour on a steady diet of tales of the Frontier. According to his biography, “He told Louis of the great battles in history and of his own experiences as a soldier in both the civil and Indian wars.”

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