Yondering

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Summary: A collection of short stories based on Louis' life
Review:

The late Louis L'Amour was a troubadour, in the old meaning of the word. He had stories to tell based on his own experiences and travels. In this book he relates some of them.

Louis says, "Over the years I have been proud to write about the men and women of the American frontier. But I have written many stories with entirely different settings which I have long wanted to share with my readers.

"I have collected some of these in Yondering. They are glimpses of what my own life was like during the early years. These were rough years; often I was hungry, out of work and facing situations such as I have since written about.

"Although these stories take place in a variety of locales, they are stories of people living under conditions similar to the way they might have lived on the frontier."

Louis L'Amour (originally Lamoore) left home and began his yondering at the age of 15. He was a circus roustabout, logger, miner, merchant seaman, cowboy, and an army officer in tank destroyers during WWII. A man's man, who wrote about things he had lived--like Papa Hemingway, Robert Service and others who wrote convincingly--Louis wrote something like 100 books, mostly about the American West of the 19th century. He is sorely missed.

Joseph H Pierre
author of the Road to Damascus: Our Journey Through Eternity

Rating:
Summary: A collection of short stories based on Louis' life
Review:

The late Louis L'Amour was a troubadour, in the old meaning of the word. He had stories to tell based on his own experiences and travels. In this book he relates some of them.

Louis says, "Over the years I have been proud to write about the men and women of the American frontier. But I have written many stories with entirely different settings which I have long wanted to share with my readers.

"I have collected some of these in Yondering. They are glimpses of what my own life was like during the early years. These were rough years; often I was hungry, out of work and facing situations such as I have since written about.

"Although these stories take place in a variety of locales, they are stories of people living under conditions similar to the way they might have lived on the frontier."

Louis L'Amour (originally Lamoore) left home and began his yondering at the age of 15. He was a circus roustabout, logger, miner, merchant seaman, cowboy, and an army officer in tank destroyers during WWII. A man's man, who wrote about things he had lived--like Papa Hemingway, Robert Service and others who wrote convincingly--Louis wrote something like 100 books, mostly about the American West of the 19th century. He is sorely missed.

Joseph H Pierre
author of the Road to Damascus: Our Journey Through Eternity

Rating:
Summary: The ring of truth.
Review: I do so love this book. Alot of hack writers have done war stories, adventure stories, and sea stories like these, but in L'Amour's case you know that he has actually been there, actually done that. I've read alot of this author's work over the years, but this is probably my favorite of his books.
Here is a working man that has actually travelled to the rough and wild places in these stories (and when they were much rougher and much wilder.) He has done the hard labor and endured the harder conditions. This is refreshing in a period when it seems that all working people are automatically assumed to be ignorant, if not stupid. Louis L'Amour was a working man that not only loved books the whole time he was working, wandering, and fighting, but he went on to become one of the best-selling authors of the 20th century.
It is funny, back when I first read this book, before I had done most of my own "yondering", I read them with a sense of awe, envy, and a grain of salt. Now, when I read them it is with a sense of recognition and validation. Yup, I recognise that situation, I recognise that character. He got it exactly right. Some things really don't change whether you are talking the Wild West, the 1930's, or...now!