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Description   Con Vallian knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger's campfire and found himself guiding a family of greenhorns across the prairie -- fighting a pack of rustlers on one hand and some mighty unpredictable Indians on the other! Louis Dearborn L'Amour (/ˈluːi ləˈmʊr/; 22 March 1908 – 10 June 1988) was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western novels (though he called his work 'frontier stories'), however he also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (The Haunted Mesa), nonfiction (Frontier), as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into movies. L'Amour's books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death some of his 105 existing works were in print (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) and he was considered "one of the world's most popular writers". Louis Dearborn LaMoore was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1908, the seventh child of Dr. Louis Charles LaMoore and Emily Dearborn LaMoore. He was of French ancestry through his father and Irish through his mother. Dr. LaMoore was a large-animal veterinarian, local politician and farm-equipment broker who had arrived in Dakota Territory in 1882. Although the area around Jamestown was mostly farm land, cowboys and livestock often traveled through Jamestown on their way to or from ranches in Montana and the markets to the east. L'Amour played "Cowboys and Indians" in the family barn, which served as his father's veterinary hospital, and spent much of his free time at the local library reading, particularly G. A. Henty, a British author of historical boys' novels during the late nineteenth century. L'Amour once said, "[Henty's works] enabled me to go into school with a great deal of knowledge that even my teachers didn't have about wars and politics." After a series of bank failures devastated the economy of the upper Midwest, Dr. LaMoore and Emily took to the road. Removing Louis and his adopted brother John from school, they headed south in the winter of 1923. Over the next seven or eight years, they skinned cattle in west Texas, baled hay in the Pecos Valley of New Mexico, worked in the mines of Arizona, California and Nevada, and in the saw mills and lumber camps of the Pacific Northwest. It was in colorful places like these that Louis met a wide variety of people, upon whom he later modeled the characters in his novels, many of them actual Old West personalities who had survived into the nineteen-twenties and -thirties. Making his way as a mine assessment worker, professional boxer and merchant seaman, Louis traveled the country and the world, sometimes with his family, sometimes not. He visited all of the western states plus England, Japan, China, Borneo, the Dutch East Indies, Arabia, Egypt, and Panama, finally moving with his parents to Oklahoma in the early 1930s. There, he changed his name to Louis L'Amour and settled down to try to make something of himself as a writer.[ HBO Pictures and Warner Bros. STARRING: Sam Elliott, Kate Capshaw, and Tom Conti DIRECTED BY: Robert Day In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Susanna McKaskel (Tom Conti and Kate Capshaw), newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Villain (Sam Elliott) is the only hope. The Quick and the Dead is a rousing adventure in the tradition of all-time greats like Shane and Pale Rider. It shares the tried-and-true ingredients of those sagebrush sagas: a storyline about peacable folk driven to action under the guidance of a mysterious stranger. The Quick and the Dead features rich cinematography of the great outdoors (by Dick Bush) and a stellar cast, here led by the incomparable Elliott (The Sacketts, Tombstone), whom John J. O'Connor of the New York Times called "the niftiest cowboy this side of John Wayne and Walter Brennan." Saddle up! Cast: Sam Elliott .... Con Vallian Tom Conti .... Duncan McKaskel Kate Capshaw .... Susanna McKaskel Kenny Morrison .... Tom McKaskel Matt Clark (I) .... Doc Shabitt Patrick Kilpatrick .... The Ute Jerry Potter .... Red Hayle Billy Streater .... Ike Mantle Del Shores .... Purdy Mantle R.L. Tolbert .... Johnny Dobbs Jeffrey M. Meyer .... Butcher McCloud Kurt D. Lott .... Lenny Shabitt Hardy Rawls .... Joy Larry Sellers .... Running Wolf Bill Stedman .... Bartender Approxomate Running Time: 1 hour 31 minutes Color 1987 Buy Me! Movie: DVD | $19.98 | View Cart | Checkout Large Print | CD | MP3 Sharing Widget |