– Re-establishing Louis L’Amour connection

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Tourism and the James River Valley Library System is attempting to re-connect with Mrs. Louis L’Amour and family, re-establishing Louis L’Amour’s Jamestown roots.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund pointed out that Louis L’Amour’s Jamestown connection will enhance tourism efforts to attract more visitors to Jamestown.

He said, the effort is part of the on-going tourism strategic plan, offering the opportunity of telling the Louis L’Amour story to visitors.

Swedlund pointed out Louis L’Amour’s life-long attraction to learning, and that libraries played an import part of that effort. With that in mind, tourism and the Alfred Dickey Public Library in Jamestown are starting conversation to join efforts to create a space at the library dedicated to Louis L’Amour.

L’Amour spent the first 15 years of his life in Jamestown with his home located across from the present Jamestown City Hall location, now the site of the Otter Tail Power Company substation.

He also attended Franklin Elementary School in Jamestown, now the CSi Technology Center, at Historic Franklin School.

Jamestown’s Louis L’Amour Elementary School was named after him.

He added that efforts will be made to contact the L’Amour family in order to get their ideas on establishing a Jamestown location at the library.

Anyone in the community with ideas or connections may contact Jamestown Tourism at

701-251-9145.

Also on our show, Swedlund said plans are moving forward for the National Buffalo Museum in Jamestown to expand space to include a theater, that will show a video depicting the bison and the historical significance and connection to Jamestown.