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feet tall and views his 185 pounds of bone and
muscle, one is inclined to agree with [critic] Walt
Mills who one expressed surprise that one who could
polish off an opponent in the prize ring could also
polish off a sonnet of startling
beauty.So read the sales brochure for
Smoke From This Altar, a book that has
become legendary among Louis LAmour readers--the
very first book he ever published. It appeared, to
great critical praise, for sale only in Oklahoma
bookstores more than fifty years ago. Since then it
has become the most sought-after LAmour title of
all, with the few circulating copies from the
small print run commanding top dollar from rare book
collectors. Now, at last, it is being published
nationally in this beautiful keepsake Bantam
edition.It was in Smoke From
This Altar that LAmour first gave public
voice to his now-celebrated spirit of wanderlust.
Like the short stories in his classic,
million-copy-selling Yondering, and his
best-selling memoir Education Of A
Wandering Man, the poems in this book are
inspired by his experiences and memories of his journeys
across oceans and continents. It is vintage
LAmour storytelling--in verse--about nature, the land,
and the people who loved and braved
it.Smoke From This Altar
begins with a newly written introduction by his wife
Kathy in which she discusses the special place this
work has held in the LAmours lives. In
concludes with twenty previously uncollected LAmour poems
selected by his
family.Impassioned, adventurous, heroic, and humorous,
Smoke From This Altar is unique L'Amour
writing, to be read and enjoyed again and again.