A Trail of Memories: The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour
"For decades, generations of readers have shared  their favorite passages of favorite Louis L'Amour  novels and short stories: parents with their  children, neighbors with their friends, executives with  their staff and clergy with their congregations.  They pass around dog-eared copies of the books,  underlined and yellowing, recalling words that  echoes in their readers' hearts and minds long after  the last page was turned. Now, many of these  selections have been collected in a remarkable volume  representing some of the richest ore of the L'Amour  lode: voices that heralded the settling of the  frontier, of the man and women whose spirit and soul  shaped our nation. In these words, Louis L'Amour  describes the American experience, bringing our  heritage to life, in ways no other author  has.No L'Amour reader has a more unique  perspective on his work than Angelique, his only daughter.  In an extraordinary feat for every Louis L'Amour  fan, and in loving appreciation of her father, she  hasCompiled A Trail Of Memories: The  Quotations Of Louis L'Amour, drawn from her  father's best-loved works of fiction, including  the Sackett novels,Last Of The  Breed,The Walking Drumand nearly  two dozen others."By reading  his words, each reader has met a part of my  father," she writes in her introduction.  "Each hero has a bit of Dad's experience that makes  him who he is. With Lanso, it is all those boxing  matches as Dad grew up. With Barnabas Sackett, it  is the sailor and explorer in my father...I think  that this collection of quotations from my  father's books reveals much of what makes Dad who he is,  for these words are the heart and soul of what he  believes, and what he wants to leave  behind."Angelique has selected nearly a  thousand of her favorite, most powerful and poignant  L'Amour quotations -- arranged by category and  annotated with the book in which it appears -- on more  than a score of universal subjects such as: Love,  Friendship  and Lo yalty; Family and Home; Honor,  the Law and Justice; the Frontier; Women; and Men  and Bravery, One such example fromSackett's Land: "He never knew when he was  whipped -- so he never  was."A wonderful gift from a daughter to her father --  and from Angelique L'Amour to her father's readers  --A Trail Of Memories: The Quotations Of  Louis L'Amourwill be a cherished  keepsake of words to enjoy, and words to live by.