Did you know the super-super-super successful author of Western novels and short stories Louis L’Amour was also a poet? I didn’t but it’s not a surprise.

“The world about is faint and far away—

A thing of understanding more than sight,

And with the dawn, like some enchanted rite,

It rises from the mist to meet the day.”

That’s from “Interlude: Hongkong Harbor” in a collection of his poetry titled “Smoke From This Altar.”

If you’ve heard of him and just put him into the category of “just another writer of westerns” then take a breath, consider you don’t know everything, and read his remarkable memoir, Education of a Wandering Man.