Collection 1999 - Beyond The Great Snow Mountains (v5.0) (25 page)

Martha Nell Hitchcock
A friend from Edmond, Oklahoma, in the 1930s.

Tommy Tucker
* Boss stoker on a British Blue Funnel ship in the mid-1920s to mid-1930s.

Dynamite Jackson
* An African-American fighter Louis helped promote in Oklahoma in the 1930s.

Orry Kelly
Designer in Hollywood; Louis knew him in the late 1940s.

Dorothy Kilgallen
A newspaper columnist who worked in L.A. in the 1950s.

Henry Li
Louis knew him from 1943, when he was at Camp Robinson, Arkansas.

Savoie Lottinville
* Of the University of Oklahoma.

Julio Lopez
Louis worked for him very briefly in Phoenix in the mid-1920s.

Joe May
A rancher Louis boxed with in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in the 1920s.

Ann Mehaffey
A friend of Louis’s from the time he spent at Camp Robinson, Arkansas.

Sam Merwin or Sam Mines
* Once worked with Leo Margulies at Standard Magazines/Better Publications.

Jack Natteford
Screenwriter who worked with Louis in the 1950s.

Joe Paskvan
Once of the Oklahoma Writers Project, who Louis knew in the late 1930s.

Billy Prince
Went to sea in the late 1930s on the
Wallace E. Pratt
, a Standard tanker.

Countess Dulong de Rosney (Toni Morgan)
* Louis knew her in France in the mid-1940s.

Dot
and
Truitt Ross
Brother and sister Louis knew in Oklahoma in the 1930s.

Mary Jane Stevenson
A friend of Louis’s from L.A. in the late 1940s.

Orchid Tatu
Lived in Sparta, Wisconsin, in the mid-1940s.

Florence Wagner
Wife of Rob Wagner of Rob Wagner’s Script.

Doris Weil
A roomer in the flat where Louis lived in the late 1940s.

Sandra Widener
Wrote an article on Louis called “The Untold Stories of Louis L’Amour.”

Anyone who knew Louis in Los Angeles or New York between 1946 and 1956.

I
would also like to hear about, or from, anyone who served on
S.S. Steel Worker
between 1925 and 1930. In particular: Captain
C.C. Boase
, 2nd Mate
Ralph Jones
, 3d Mate
Raymond Cousins
, Radio Operator
Stanley Turbervil
, Carpenter
George Mearly
, Bo’sun
H. Allendorf
, Chief Engineer
C. B. Dahlberg
, 1st Asst Eng.
O. E. Morgan
, 2nd Asst Eng.
W. Haynes
, 3d Asst Engineers
George G. Folberth
and
William Stewart
, Oilers
A. Chagnon
and
A. Kratochbil
, Firemen
William Hohroien, J. Perez, Manfrido Gonzales, John Fennelly
, and
E. G. Burnay, Wipers A. Sanchez, J. J. Dalmasse
and
E. Clifford
, Steward
J. Shiel
, Messmen
Dean Bender, William Harvey
, and
J. H. Blomstedt
, Able-Bodied Seamen
Ernest Martin, Chris Moore, Karl Erickson, Steve Schmotzer, Michael Llorca, Louis Armand, Joseph Morris, Herbert Lieflander, William Reichart
, and
H. F. Waite
.

Also, anyone familiar with
Singapore in the late 1920s
, the old Straits Hotel, and the Maypole Bar. And anyone who is very knowledgeable in
military history and/or politics in western (Shansi, Kansu, and Sinkiang provinces) China
in 1928–36.

I am also looking for seamen who served on the following ships: the
Catherine G. Sudden
, between 1925 and 1936; the
Yellowstone
, between 1925 and 1936; the
S.S. Steadfast
, between 1924 and 1930; the
Annandale
(exact spelling uncertain), a four-masted bark, between 1920 and 1926; the
Randsberg
, a German freighter, between 1925 and 1937.

Also, anyone who knows anything about an old square-rigged sailing vessel called the
Indiana
, which was used in movies in the 1920s and 1930s. This ship was docked at San Pedro.

Anyone who knows anything about the following boxers:
Jonny “Kid” Stopper, Jack Horan, “Kid” Yates, Butch Vierthaler (Bill Thaler)
. And
Ira O’Neil, Jimmy Roberts, Jimmy Russo, Jack McGraf
, or
Jackie Jones
—guys Louis met in Phoenix in October of 1924.

Anyone who knows anything about
a fight (I assume with small arms) between two trading schooners
that was stopped by a British warship near Pinaki in the South Pacific. This would have been between 1926 and 1932.

Anyone from
the family or group that Louis guided around Egypt
sometime between 1926 and 1937. Although he very much looked the part, Louis finally admitted that he wasn’t a real guide and that he’d been using a tour book from a library to learn about where he was taking them. They may have been staying at Shepherds. Some or all of the party were Americans, and there may have been as many as twelve of them.

Anyone who might know about
a flight that Louis took across Africa
with a French officer, with stops at Taudeni and Timbuktu. This would have been between the mid-1920s and late 1930s.

Anyone familiar with
an island in the Spratly group called Itu Aba
.

Anyone who knows anything about a very short-lived magazine published in Oklahoma City in 1936 called
Uptown Magazine
.

Anyone who knows if
Norman Foster
and
Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam)
ever went to sea during the 1920s or early 1930s.

Anyone who knows where the personal and business papers of
B. P. Schulberg (not Budd)
and
Sam Katz
are archived. Both of these men worked at Paramount Publix Pictures. The period that I am interested in is the late 1920s to the early 1930s.

Anyone familiar with the
Royal Government Experimental Hospital in Calcutta, India
.

I would also like to hear from men who served in the following military units: the 3622
Quartermaster Truck Company
, between June of 1944 and December of 1945; the 3595
Quartermaster Truck Company
, after October 1945 and before January 1946; the
670th Tank Destroyer Battalion
, at Camp Hood, Texas in 1943; the
808th Tank Destroyer Battalion
, at Camp Phillips, Kansas, in 1943.

Also, soldiers or officers who took
basic training at Camp Robinson, Arkansas
, between September 1942 and January 1943; took
winter training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin
, and near Land o’ Lakes and Watersmeet in the northern Michigan peninsula between October 1943 and February 1944, or remember Louis in early 1944 when he was staying at the
St. Francis Hotel
and the
Belleview in San Francisco
. During this time he worked at the
Oakland Air Base
and
Fort Mason, California
. Later he was at
Camp Beale, California
.

Anyone who worked with the
Oklahoma WPA Writers Project
.

Any recordings that anyone knows about of any of Louis’s speeches.

About Louis L’Amour

“I think of myself in the oral tradition—

as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man

in the shadows of the campfire. That’s the way

I’d like to be remembered as a storyteller.

A good storyteller.”

I
T IS DOUBTFUL that any author could be as at home in the world re-created in his novels as Louis Dearborn L’Amour. Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally “walked the land my characters walk.” His personal experiences as well as his lifelong devotion to historical research combined to give Mr. L’Amour the unique knowledge and understanding of people, events, and the challenge of the American frontier that became the hallmarks of his popularity.

Of French-Irish descent, Mr. L’Amour could trace his own family in North America back to the early 1600s and follow their steady progression westward, “always on the frontier.” As a boy growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, he absorbed all he could about his family’s frontier heritage, including the story of his great-grandfather who was scalped by Sioux warriors.

Spurred by an eager curiosity and desire to broaden his horizons, Mr. L’Amour left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs including seaman, lumberjack, elephant handler, skinner of dead cattle, miner, and an officer in the transportation corps during World War II. During his “yondering” days he also circled the world on a freighter, sailed a dhow on the Red Sea, was shipwrecked in the West Indies and stranded in the Mojave Desert. He won fifty-one of fifty-nine fights as a professional boxer and worked as a journalist and lecturer. He was a voracious reader and collector of rare books. His personal library contained 17,000 volumes.

Mr. L’Amour “wanted to write almost from the time I could talk.” After developing a widespread following for his many frontier and adventure stories written for fiction magazines, Mr. L’Amour published his first full-length novel,
Hondo
, in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 120 books is in print; there are nearly 270 million copies of his books in print worldwide, making him one of the best-selling authors in modern literary history. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and more than forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and television movies.

His hardcover bestsellers include
The Lonesome Gods, The Walking Drum
(his twelfth-century historical novel),
EnterTitle, Last of the Breed
, and
The 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 publishing tradition forward.

Bantam Books by Louis L’Amour

NOVELS

Bendigo Shafter

Borden Chantry

Brionne

The Broken Gun

The Burning Hills

The Californios

Callaghen

Catlow

Chancy

The Cherokee Trail

Comstock Lode

Conagher

Crossfire Trail

Dark Canyon

Down the Long Hills

The Empty Land

Fair Blows the Wind

Fallon

The Ferguson Rifle

The First Fast Draw

Flint

Guns of the Timberlands

Hanging Woman Creek

The Haunted Mesa

Heller with a Gun

The High Graders

High Lonesome

Hondo

How the West Was Won

The Iron Marshal

The Key-Lock Man

Kid Rodelo

Kilkenny

Killoe

Kilrone

Kiowa Trail

Last of the Breed

Last Stand at Papago Wells

The Lonesome Gods

The Man Called Noon

The Man from Skibbereen

The Man from the Broken Hills

Matagorda

Milo Talon

The Mountain Valley War

North to the Rails

Over on the Dry Side

Passin’ Through

The Proving Trail

The Quick and the Dead

Radigan

Reilly’s Luck

The Rider of Lost Creek

Rivers West

The Shadow Riders

Shalako

Showdown at Yellow Butte

Silver Canyon

Sitka

Son of a Wanted Man

Taggart

The Tall Stranger

To Tame a Land

Tucker

Under the Sweetwater Rim

Utah Blaine

The Walking Drum

Westward the Tide

Where the Long Grass Blows

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

Beyond the Great Snow Mountains

Bowdrie

Bowdrie’s Law

Buckskin Run

Dutchman’s Flat

End of the Drive

From the Listening Hills

The Hills of Homicide

Law of the Desert Born

Long Ride Home

Lonigan

May There Be a Road

Monument Rock

Night over the Solomons

Off the Mangrove Coast

The Outlaws of Mesquite

The Rider of the Ruby Hills

Riding for the Brand

The Strong Shall Live

The Trail to Crazy Man

Valley of the Sun

War Party

West from Singapore

West of Dodge

With These Hands

Yondering

SACKETT TITLES

Sackett’s Land

To the Far Blue Mountains

The Warrior’s Path

Jubal Sackett

Ride the River

The Daybreakers

Sackett

Lando

Mojave Crossing

Mustang Man

The Lonely Men

Galloway

Treasure Mountain

Lonely on the Mountain

Ride the Dark Trail

The Sackett Brand

The Sky-Liners

THE HOPALONG CASSIDY NOVELS

The Riders of the High Rock

The Rustlers of West Fork

The Trail to Seven Pines

Trouble Shooter

NONFICTION

Education of a Wandering Man

Frontier

The Sackett Companion: A Personal Guide to the Sackett Novels

A Trail of Memories: The Quotations of Louis L’Amour, compiled by Angelique L’Amour

POETRY

Smoke from This Altar

BEYOND THE GREAT SNOW MAOUNTAINS

A Bantam Book / March 2005

PUBLISHING HISTORY

Bantam edition published 1999

Bantam reissue / April 2000

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