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Louis L'Amour lived in Choctaw, Oklahoma.
Various newspaper articles pertaining to the LaMoore and L'Amour family.
The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
December 1, 1938 page 4
Boxing Booms For Choctaw
Coach L'Amour Is Searching For Heavyweights
Chotaw, Nov 30 - Despite difficulties of rounding up his widely scattered
Golden Glove prospects, Louis "Duke" L'Amour, Choctaw coach...L'Amour,
in his first year as Golden Gloves coach...
The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
April 30, 1939 page 71
Louis L'Amour, traveler and pugilist, and who always is present at writers' conferences, has just issued a book of poems called "SMOKE from this ALTAR"...
The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
June 4, 1939 page 65
(early photo)
Louis L'Amount
Knows About His Subjects
Smoke From This Altar by Louis L'Amour, Oklahoma City: Lusk Publishing Company. $1.50.
I have been watching the work of Louis L'Amour for a long time, ever since I first met him; and I don't remember when, where or how that was. What struck me first was his delight in and love for words; and what struck me next was his industry. He has that infinite capacity for taking pains, which Carlyle, I believe it was, gave as a definition of genius. And he has the ability to take punishment which only a trained fighter (which he is along with all his other accomplishments) could stand. By which I mean to imply that he will be heard from in a big way one of these days.
For it has the the three things which it takes to make a writer; a love for words, industry and something to say. He has been around. Born in North Dakota, he set out at the age of 15 to see the world. He has seen a lot of it. Japan, China, Borneo, Java, New Guinea, India, Arabia, Egypt and South and Central America. He made his way by working, as miner, lumberjack, seaman, deep-sea diver, prize-fighter, sideshow barker, actor, editor, reporter. For the last six or eight years he has lived in Oklahoma. He has seen many men of many kinds in these occupations - and he has found something to love, pity, admire, in all of them. Which takes the limit off his human sympathies and his range of interests.
Since I have known him he has written three novels - and has had the courage to abandon at least two of them, because he did not think they were good enough. And that is another mark of an author who can not fail to succeed. Most young writers fall in love with their own work and fail to treat it rough enough. And his short stories have appeared in a dozen or more of the national magazines.
Well, here is a collection of fifty or more poems built on themes gathered from the far ends of the earth or from his back yard...echoing the cadences of the sonnet which fit extremely well with sad and wistful longing. Like this:
The harbor lights are shining from the bay
Like golden daggers in the heart of night,
and
The stars go out like candles in a gale
From Interlude: Hongkong Harbor.
....Louis L'Amour has a lot of these in the heart... K. C. K. [Kenneth C. Kaufman]
[under photo - "Louis L'Amour is an Oklahoma writer destined, in the opinion of competent critics, to go far in the field of literature. He has just published a book of poems well worth your attention]
The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 10, 1940 page 62
Louis L'Amour Has Another Thriller
Louis L'Amour is author of "The House of Qasavara" the December
number of "Thrilling Adventures." It concerns further adventures
of Ponga Jim, who incidentally is attaining tremendous stature among the
heroes of action stores, in the South Seas. The World war figures, in that
Jim is doing heroic battle to help the British Intelligence Service
against Nazi agents.
The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
December 10, 1939 page 73
Louis L'Amour Starts New Adventure Story
Louis L'Amour of Choctaw, Okla. has a story of sea adventure in the Dutch
East Indies, in "Thrilling Adventures" mazagine. It is
up-to-date in character, dealing with hypothetical efforts of the Germans
to involve the British in Oriental difficulties. Title, "East of
Gorontalo."
The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
December 29, 1940 page 55
book review written by Louis L'Amour [many reviews around this time period]
The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
September 30, 1944 page 20
Collision Hurts Driver
Crash of two automobiles at the intersection of US 62 and US 270 east of
Oklahoma City resulted in slight injuries Friday for Peter Senkowski,
Harrah, occupant of a car driven by John Gesiaroski, Harrah. The car
collided with another driven by L. C. LaMoore, Choctaw, reported Marcus
Carter, highway patrolman. Senkowski had cuts and bruises on his hands and
face.
The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 7, 1944 page 14
Driver Is Cleared
Dr. L. C. LaMoore, route 2, Choctaw, was found innocent Friday of
violating a rule of the road after a hearing before Otis D. James, justice
of the peace. LaMoore was charged with improper driving on US 62 and 270
at Nicoma Park.
The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
June 4, 1967 page 20
article about L'Amour ...former Sooner, who now lives in Hollywood... brother of late Parker LaMoore...
