NMLP P-019980 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Smoke from This Altar

Louis L'Amour · Lusk Publishing Company · 1939

This is the true first L'Amour book of any kind and his only volume of poetry, far scarcer than any of his Westerns and the cornerstone of a deep L'Amour collection.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-019980 for "Smoke from This Altar" by Louis L'Amour (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-019980, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).