Rivers West by Louis L´Amour Essay - 1489 Words

Louis L’Amour was born Louis Dearborn LaMoore on March 22, 1908 as the last of seven children. His father and mother are Dr. Louis Charles LaMoore and Emily Dearborn LaMoore, for the first fifteen years of his life Louis lived in Jamestown, North Dakota; a medium sized farming community in the valley where Pipestem Creek flows into the James River. His grandfather, Abraham Truman Dearborn, told Louis stories of battles in history and his own personal experiences as a soldier. As a child Louis spent a great deal of time in a nearby library where his eldest sister, Edna, was a librarian, he was interested in the study of History and always went beyond the scope that was taught in the schools. In addition to the study of History and Natural†¦show more content†¦In the years after leaving Jamestown Louis spent some time as a professional boxer. He was taught well by his father and older brothers and ended up making some extra money from the occasional prizefight. Though h e left school at an early grade Louis had a thirst for knowledge. Throughout his life Louis went to libraries and bookstores all over the world, anywhere he could find. Louis always wanted to write but in his earlier days he thought his writing would take the form of poetry. He struggled for years to craft writings without much teaching except his own knowledge. Eventually, he broke out into a number of little magazines and began placing poems regularly, Poetry, however did not pay very well so he started writing short stories that drew on his life experience, finally, he sold a short story called â€Å"Anything for a Pal† to a pulp magazine called True Gang Life. He made less than eight dollars but he took that as a sign and devoted his time to writing for the pulps. In 1937 he sold a short story called â€Å"Gloves for a Tiger† to Thrilling Adventures Magazine and after this other sales followed quickly. Although he wrote in several genres, Louis’ most financi ally successful stories were the adventure tales he wrote about the captain of a tramp freighter and his crew. Late in the summer of 1942 Louis was inducted into the US army, after his discharge he returned to the US to find that the marketShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of The Rivers West By Louis L Amour2483 Words   |  10 PagesLouis L’Amour, author of â€Å"Rivers West† and many other famous books and short stories, was born in Jamestown North Dakota March 22, 1908. L’Amour was an indifferent student and dropped out of school at the age of 15. The next two decades L’Amour traveled the world and held many different jobs, he was a lumberjack, an elephant trainer, a miner, and during World War 2 he served as an officer in the tanks corps in Europe. It was not till he came back from World War 2 that he decided to be a writer andRead MoreSwiss Chocolate19949 Words   |  80 Pages1519 and he immediately establishes in the name of Spain a cocoa plantation wher e, henceforth, money will be cultivated. He was the first to introduce cocoa and the utensils in Europe. Then in 1615, The Spanish princess Anna of Austria marries Louis XIII and introduces, amongst other Spanish customs, the drinking of chocolate at the French court. London s first chocolate shop is opened by a Frenchman in 1657. In 1671 A clumsy kitchen-boys drops a bowlful of almonds on the floor. The angry chefRead MoreMetz Film Language a Semiotics of the Cinema PDF100902 Words   |  316 Pagesdifference from the other term of the dichotomy, signifier. A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY xv tinet prefers to call it, lexeme) work and the grammatical moneme -ing (Chapter I, Section 9). Commutation, a concept the author borrows from the Danish linguist Louis Hjelmslev (Prolegomena to a Theory of Language, translated by Francis J. Whitfield. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961, pp. 73-75), is a relation between a correlation in one plane . . . and a correlation in the other plane of language