No sure where to document this, but I read that an editor of L’Amour said that he wrote nearly all of his books in one draft and would not go back and edit them for consistency. L'Amour figured that his readers didn't care whether the bad guy was shot two or three times, (such as in the start of Radigan, for example.)
Re terrain and travel: L'Amour nails it most of the time, way better than most authors, because he walked or rode over much of the ground he wrote about. It shows. However, when he was wrong or had not covered the ground, it really shows. The book about trail driving cattle from the plains to the British Columbia gold fields is utterly ridiculous in time and terrain, leaving out whole mountain ranges to cross.
One of our family inside jokes when one of us gets a compliment is to say, "It is nothing." Everybody in the family knows it comes from Last of the Breed, and is the hero's comment about carrying something like a 150 lb. pack over mountains (I am not going to try to look up the exact weight mentioned in the book.)
Last edited by Okanagan; 01/06/20.
