JAMESTOWN (AP) - Jamestown's plan for an interpretive center to honor frontier author Louis L'Amour has hit a snag.

L'Amour's widow, Kathy, has told city officials she cannot commit to the project now.

Officials said L'Amour, who died in 1988, had spent much of his youth in Jamestown's Alfred Dickey library and they proposed turning the building into an interpretive center. A task force was working to find about $4.5 million needed to carry out the idea.

Tourism board president Donna Zimmerman said Kathy L'Amour sent a letter saying she was impressed with the project but she and her family were not ready to commit to it.

Louis L'Amour published more than 100 books in 27 languages before his death at the age of 80.