Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning—from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women—that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama--such as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desert--with true-life characters like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and cowboys whom Louis L'Amour met while traveling the globe. At last, in his own words, this is a story of a one-of-a-kind life lived to the fullest . . . a life that inspired the books that will forever enable us to relive our glorious frontier heritage.

• The Sackett Companion: The Facts Behind the Fiction
• The Walking Drum (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel
• The Lonesome Gods: An Epic Novel of the California Desert (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)
• Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Mysterious Stories, Lost Notes, and Unfinished Manuscripts from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists
• Smoke from This Altar
• The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded)
• Last of the Breed: A Novel
• The Haunted Mesa: A Novel
• Sackett's Land: A Novel
• A Trail of Memories: The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour