Rough Drafts 3/13

It’s hard to believe he’s been gone for a quarter of a century, but this year marks the 25th anniversary of the passing of novelist Louis L’Amour. The legendary author is the undisputed king of Western fiction, with sales that reached into the hundreds of millions of copies while he was alive. His death has hardly slowed the demand, as any visit to a bookstore will demonstrate. Country rocker Charlie Daniels was a personal friend of L’Amour’s, and to commemorate this anniversary, we