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Down the Trail With Louis L'Amour: An Interview With the Best Western Novelist |
| Section: LIFE / PERSONALITY |
| Author: Jonathan Veitch |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 3,066 Words, 15,567 Characters |
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He rolled the cigarette in his lips, liking the taste of the tobacco, squinting his eyes against the sun's glare. His buckskin shirt, seasoned by sun, rain, and sweat, smelled stale and old. His jeans had long since faded to a neutral color that lost itself against the desert. He was a big man, wide-shouldered, with the lean, hard-boned face of the desert rider. There was no softness in him. His toughness was ingrained and deep, without cruelty, yet quick, hard, and dangerous. Whatever wells of gentleness might lie within him were guarded and deep.
An hour passed and there was no more dust, so he knew he was in trouble. He had drawn up short of the crest where his eyes could just see over the ridge, his horse crowded against a dark clump of juniper where he was invisible to any...
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...ny men are working at their jobs, all of which contribute to our civilization - the growth of it, the ease of it, whatever it may be. And my job is to read and interpret, to pass on what I've learned. I have the opportunity to do research that many people don't. I can pass that on. A lot of writers forget that story telling is the earliest form of learning. And writing, after all, is sharing.
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