publication date: Saturday, August 19, 2006 (part of Round XXVIII)

category: Literature

clue: This Western writer loved the Old West so much, he wrote more than a hundred novels about it.

explanation: L'Amour was a prolific writer of Western fiction with over 100 novels to his name. The word "loved" was a play on his last name. more…

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Denise Sawicki, Erik Bates, Steve Dunn, Amy Austin, Mike Eberhart, Aaron Shurtleff, David Mitzman, Elliot Farney, Jerry Mathis, Tony Peters, Scott Horowitz, Megan Baxter, Chris McKinnon, Michael Paul Cote, Todd Brotsch, E. M., Adrianne Rodgers, Kerry Odell, Joy Dunn, and Aaron Weiss

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