America's Storyteller LbNA #26521 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Boots Tex  |
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| Plant date: | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Tomball |
| County: | Harris |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | wobblywheel |
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| Last found: | Sep 30, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFaa |
| Last edited: | Oct 17, 2015 |
This box was placed for the Great Book Adventure Gathering held in Burroughs Park on 10/21/06.
Louis L’Amour wrote 96 novels and 26 collections of stories, aside from nonfiction, a memoir, and a volume of poetry. As it happens, all 120-plus of his books are still in print and have sold 270 million copies worldwide, with 45 of his novels and stories filmed be Hollywood or television, altogether seemingly a record unmatched by an American writer in any genre, living or dead.
L'Amour wrote with a clean, flowing style that made his work a fast reading journey into the world of the old west, which he showed us in explicit detail. His detail of historical settings resulted from years of research and firsthand observation. He did not present the old west in the common, shoot-em up style that is evident in so many pulp western novels, but instead examined the often brutal effect of white culture on that of the natives, and created characters who endure conflicting feelings about the Native Americans' struggle.
He’s the only American novelist to accord the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Directions:
From Houston, go north on Hwy 249 to Tomball. Go east on FM 2910, then left on Huffsmith-Kohrville Road (FM 2978). Turn right on West Huffsmith Road and Burroughs Park is just over a mile down on the left. Continue past the soccer fields to the pavilion and park by the trail sign.
To the Box:
Go to the trail sign and continue behind it on the gravel trail, past the volleyball courts. You will pass a dirt path and then a bench, both on the right. After a short walk, you will come to a trail junction. Turn left and as you start down the path, look ahead and you will see a bench at the far end of the trail. Go to the bench and sit on it. Conjure up visions of the Old West. Imagine a stagecoach coming down the road. The driver looks a little like John Wayne. Open your eyes and look straight across the road in front of you where you will see a large downed tree in the forest. Follow the tree to its root ball and you will find America’s Storyteller at the end under the usual stuff.
Louis L’Amour wrote 96 novels and 26 collections of stories, aside from nonfiction, a memoir, and a volume of poetry. As it happens, all 120-plus of his books are still in print and have sold 270 million copies worldwide, with 45 of his novels and stories filmed be Hollywood or television, altogether seemingly a record unmatched by an American writer in any genre, living or dead.
L'Amour wrote with a clean, flowing style that made his work a fast reading journey into the world of the old west, which he showed us in explicit detail. His detail of historical settings resulted from years of research and firsthand observation. He did not present the old west in the common, shoot-em up style that is evident in so many pulp western novels, but instead examined the often brutal effect of white culture on that of the natives, and created characters who endure conflicting feelings about the Native Americans' struggle.
He’s the only American novelist to accord the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Directions:
From Houston, go north on Hwy 249 to Tomball. Go east on FM 2910, then left on Huffsmith-Kohrville Road (FM 2978). Turn right on West Huffsmith Road and Burroughs Park is just over a mile down on the left. Continue past the soccer fields to the pavilion and park by the trail sign.
To the Box:
Go to the trail sign and continue behind it on the gravel trail, past the volleyball courts. You will pass a dirt path and then a bench, both on the right. After a short walk, you will come to a trail junction. Turn left and as you start down the path, look ahead and you will see a bench at the far end of the trail. Go to the bench and sit on it. Conjure up visions of the Old West. Imagine a stagecoach coming down the road. The driver looks a little like John Wayne. Open your eyes and look straight across the road in front of you where you will see a large downed tree in the forest. Follow the tree to its root ball and you will find America’s Storyteller at the end under the usual stuff.