Louis L’Amour was supposedly creating a Western town, Shalako, similar to those he wrote about. Did he get it done?

  Louis L’Amour was supposedly creating a Western town, Shalako, similar to those he wrote about. Did he get it done? James Denney Sedalia, Missouri L’Amour did dream of building an Old West town as a tourist attraction. My friend Jim Dunham tells me, “I got to meet Louis L’Amour on several occasions in Durango, Colorado, and he told me he had abandoned his plan to build a Western town called ‘Shalako’ on land he owned in the Four Corners area. Research showed