LOUIS L'AMOUR holds a unique place in
American history as the only novelist to receive both the Congressional Gold Medal. voted by both houses of Congress, in 1983, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, bestowed on him in 1984. His memoir, Education of a Wandering Man, was a leading bestseller last fall. Among his bestselling novels are Hondo, The Lonesome Gods, Last of the Breed, The Walking Drum, The Haunted Mesa, and the seventeen Sackett novels, There are nearly 225 million copies of his 106 books in worldwide print.