Haunted Mesa. His memoir, Education of a Wandering Man, was a leading bestseller
in 1989. Audio dramatizations and adaptations of many L’Amour stories are
available on cassette tapes from Bantam Audio Publishing.
The recipient of many great honors and awards, in 1983 Mr. L’Amour became the
first novelist ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United
States Congress in honor of his life’s work. In 1984 he was also awarded the
Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.
Louis L’Amour died on June 10, 1988. His wife, Kathy, and their two children,
Beau and Angelique, carry the L’Amour tradition forward with new books written
by the author during his lifetime to be published by Bantam well into the
nineties — among them, four Hopalong Cassidy novels: The Rustlers of West Fork,
The Trail to Seven Pines, The Riders of High Rock, and Trouble Shooter.