Books to Movies: L’Amour’s Shalako How many books did Louis L’Amour write before he died in 1988 at the age of 80? 105 novels and other books, almost all of them westerns or set in the West. This one was written in 1962. It’s a western genre piece by a king of western genre…
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The Day Matt Dillon Died
The Day Matt Dillon Died Bye-bye Mister American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry…a piece of Americana died on June 3, 2011, in the shape and form of one Marshal Matt Dillon – James Arness. Eighty eight years old. Matt Dillon tamed the west each week for…