01782cam a2200277 4500 333051764 TxAuBib 20170101120000.0 900501t19901989||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780553063189 0553063189 (OCoLC)21462366 TxAuBib L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988. Education of a wandering man / Louis L'Amour. New York : Bantam, 1990. ©1989. 232 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. "The Louis L'Amour collection.". Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232). From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning--from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women--that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama--such as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desert--with true-life characters like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and cowboys whom Louis L'Amour met while traveling the globe. At last, in his own words, this is a story of a one- 20170101. L'Amour, Louis 1908-1988. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. Western stories Authorship.