Louis lamour unauthorized biography

Not a huge Louis L’Amour fan (I’ve read The Haunted Mesa and that may be it), but I enjoyed this book. Not sure why L’Amour rejected his doctor’s theory that his lung cancer was related to his mining work.

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Silicosis can be caused by coal mining, but it can also be caused by any mining where you’re dealing with silica dust – meaning any mining where the rock has quartz in it. And the Monte Cristo Mountains of Nevada, where L’Amour worked as a miner, have a lot of quartz in them.

But I wonder if that isn’t typical of L’Amour. For all his research, he has some curious blind spots.

For example, he apparently believed cowboys were such profound fans of Sir Walter Scott that they had embraced Scott's ideas of chivalry, once saying, "It's hard to believe that a decent woman could ride anywhere in the West, entirely alone and be unmolested and safe. Rape was almost unknown."

Uh, no, not quite. Women pr