Frequently
Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)
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I have reverence for all
who ask questions
and seek honest answers.
..... The Walking Drum
How do I navigate Louis
L'Amour's Lost Treasures?
The preview features only the first of ten chapters
out of the new Borden Chantry sequel. How can I see the other
9 chapters?
It looks like a lot of the things here are unfinished.
Are there any complete stories?
The section of NOTES on the Sackett Family and
on the novels is kind of confusing. Can you help me understand
what I am seeing there?
How often will there be new material on the web
site?
Will there ever be a Story Completion Contest
or will a Ghost Writer ever be hired to complete some of these
stories?
I've forgotten my password. How can I find out
how to log in?
How do I navigate Louis L'Amour's Lost
Treasures? - The first pageof each issue, which we call the
"Current Edition Table of Contents" is the main
page from which ALL articles, stories, notes, etc. are linked.
All of the content in each issue starts and ends with the "Current
Edition Table of Contents".
Here on the "Current Edition Table of Contents"
page, each story is briefly described with a few notes from either
Beau or I and then we give you just the first few lines from the
story to allow you better choose where you would like to start.
Each brief description is ended with the phrase "Continued
. . ." or "Click HERE for
more of this article . . . " By clicking on the "Continued
. . ." or the "Click HERE
for more of this article . . ." link, you will be
taken to a series of web pages dedicated to that particular article.
At the bottom of each article page is a "Next
Page >>" link,
a series of page numbers and links to any related articles, as
well as a link to return you to the "Current Edition Table
of Contents" page. Navigate each article by clicking
the appropriate link. Click the "Next
Page >>" link
to go to the next page. Click the number "3" to go to
page three of the article (not page three of this issue but page
3 of that one article). Click the number "5" to jump
to page five of the article. Etc. . .
Once you have finished reading an article, click the "Return
to Current Edition Table of Contents" to return to the
table of contents page and find another article to read.
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The preview features only the first of ten
chapters out of the new Borden Chantry sequel. How can I see the
other 9 chapters? - The
Borden Chantry sequel is over 92 typewriten pages and as such
we have serialised it over the first three editions of the Lost
Treasures site. The preview edition has chapter 1. The first edition
of the subscription site has chapters 2 -5 and the second edition
of the subscripton site will have the final chapters 6 - 10. In
order to gain access to these chapters you must subscribe.
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It looks like a lot of the things here are
unfinished. Are there any complete stories? -
You will find many of the things in Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures
unfinished. But there are also a lot of completed works that we
will be presenting to you. All of the adventure travel articles
and articles about writing are complete along with the story treatments
and much more.
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The section of NOTES on the Sackett Family
and on the novels is kind of confusing. Can you help me understand
what I am seeing there? - The
"Notes on the Sackett, Talon and Chantry Families" is
by far the toughest section of the web site to present. God forbid
that someone unfamiliar with the Sackett novels gets lost in there!
There is no way to know when most of these notes were written.
Many of the details in this section are different than they are
in the final published novels. However these notes are the only
clues we have to the true epic scope of Louis' vision for these
three families. This section will be added to on an ongoing basis
and we will leave it up in it's entirity once it is complete.
In this manner we will try to give you a glimpse of Louis' grand
scheme and hope that once we get all the trees in place that the
forest is revealed.
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How often will there be new material on
the web site? - We
hope to update the site every 4-6 weeks. Much like a magazine,
we will be completely replacing the "Current" edition
of materials once the next edition ready. As mentioned above,
the Sackett, Talon and Chantry family notes will be a cumulative
item that will be available on an ongoing basis. In addition,
the Books Read by Louis section will be similarly added to and
available all the time.
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Will
there ever be a Story Completion Contest or will a Ghost Writer
ever be hired to complete some of these stories?
- In short, NO. Louis' work was based on a lifetime of experience
that can never be duplicated. His written words reflect his adventerous
life and come from a totally unique set of life experiences. When
Louis writes about the west, he writes from his own, first-hand
knowledge. The L'Amour Estate has no intention of ever hiring
a ghost writer to complete his unfinnished works. Add to this
the intricacies of Intellectual property, and copyright laws which
make it impossible to allow Story Completion Contests without
opening up the possibility of those rights being called into question
and you can begin to understand why the Louis L'Amour Estate has
decided to allow Louis' work to stand as he left it.
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I've forgotten my password. How can I find
out how to log in? - Click
HERE to go to a page that will allow you to find out how to
retrieve your password.
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