If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's … - Louis L'Amour

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I think in some cases, a penny is nothing compared to the kind of numbers. Then you get to fraud, waste and abuse, Sean. I mean, the fraud and the waste and the abuse, which everybody agrees if you can solve that problem, but it's, you know, mind-boggling the kind of numbers.

Louis L'Amour

If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel. ' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.

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