In His Own Words

Louis L'Amour
1 min readJul 25, 2020

Louis L’Amour in the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures Edition of COMSTOCK LODE discusses his time in the mines and its’ influence on his novel. Here in his own words he discusses what it was like living and working in the mines as a young man.

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Louis L'Amour

I think of myself in the oral tradition, as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of a campfire. That’s the way I’d like to be remembered.