Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Louis L'Amour on typewriters


Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) was a spectacularly successful author of Western novels and stories. Here he is at his Olympia SM3 in 1953, and at an IBM Model B or C in later life.


Dave Cannon has discovered some wonderful passages on typewriters in L'Amour's memoir Education of a Wandering Man.


These are so good I just had to type them up on my Reporters Special. Thanks, Dave!







 

1 comment:

  1. There’s a goodly bit of motivation in those passages! I really need to pull one of the stable out and do some “mind traveling”, myself. And, by the way, that “Reporters Special” looks a lovely ol’ machine.

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