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	Podcast:		RadioAmerica - Old Time Radio
	Episode:		Radio America's Louis Lamour Bill Cary Rides West
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:55:13
	Publish Date:		2007-03-16 18:27:00
	Description:		Louis Dearborn L'Amour was not only the West's best-selling storyteller, he was the consummate Western man, a pattern for the white-hatted heros he wrote about. Hard-working and soft-spoken, he was proud of his accomplishments, although often shy in his remembrances. L'Amour literally elevated himself by his proverbial boot straps, and in the process left footprints that few writers will be able to fill. Luck had nothing to do with his successes, he said not long before his death in June 1988. "Nor have I had any connections or breaks that I did not create for myself." The work ethic was instilled in L'Amour as a child by his parents in Jamestown, North Dakota. His father, a veterinarian and farm machinery salesman, was involved in local politics. Young Louie played cowboys and Indians in the family barn, which served as his father's veterinary hospital, and did more than his share of reading, particularly G. A. Henty, an Englishman who had written of wars through the nineteenth century. L'Amour said "it enabled me to go into school with a great deal of knowledge that even my teachers didn't have about wars and politics."
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