CHRISTOPHER LANE is associate professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of "The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire."
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Louis L’Amour is now one of the most iconic Western writers of all time, but once upon a time he was Jim Mayo, a regular writer for the pulps. Some of the tales he wrote in those days stuck with him enough that he later revised and expanded them into no... SEE MORE