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America's Storyteller: Louis L'Amour  Louis L'Amour was born in North Dakota March 22, 1908 and died june 10, 1988 of Lung Cancer.  His parents were Louis Charles L'Amour & Emily (Dearborn) L'Amour







Louis's philosophy is

"Acquiring an education has many aspects, of which school is only one, and the present approach is, I believe, the wrong one. Without claiming to have all the answers, I can only express my feeling that our methods of instruction do much to hamper a child in learning. Our approach is pedestrian. We teach a child to creep when he should be running; education becomes a task rather than excitement. Yet each of us can remember one or two teachers who made learning an adventure, which it surely is. Personally, I believe children should be taught to see, to observe, and to subject what they have seen to analysis, and this in the earliest grades. Very young children will often learn a difficult subject easily unless someone tells them it is 'hard.' To me it also seems obvious that a child should be taught some methods of reasoning, methods of scientific investigation. Children have an innate feeling for logic and, given the opportunity, would learn quickly. Such instruction would be unthinkable in any country not a democracy, and if carried out in a democracy it might clear the air of a lot of loose thinking, loose public speaking, and the kind of questionable statements that fill the air during political and other campaigns. The first generations of parents who had such children would have a difficult time but would find their own thinking undergoing drastic change. We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different. Many of the political ideas that have disturbed the world in the past fifty years could not exist in such an atmosphere." ~ // Louis L'Amour //

Quotes: "I don't travel and tell stories because that's not the way these days, But I write my books to be read aloud and I think of myself in that oral tradition." "If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If it's west of the Mississippi, it's a western, a different category. There's no sense to it." ~//Louis L'Amour//

Timeline: [|Louis L'Amour Timeline]

Complete list of his books:[|List of Books] Biography: Awards:Presidential Medal of Freedom Congressional Gold Medal North Dakota Roughrider Award Golden Boots Award Saddleman Award Buffalo Bill Award

Inspirations: Louis's inspirations were numerous and almost everyone he met. Although thare was his one friend who got him to start writing westerns, basically he wrote almost all of his books based off of people he has met or places he has been throughout his life.

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