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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN num: 9780553371024
ISBN number: 0553371029
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: November 01, 1992
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: November 01, 1992
Sale Popularity Level: 128376
Studio: Bantam
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Little did Louis L'Amour realize back in 1960 when he published The Daybreakers, a novel about two brothers who came west after the Civil War, that he had begun creating what would become perhaps North America's most widely followed literary family: the Sacketts. The stories of ten generations of Sackett men and women as they forged westward from tyranny-wracked seventeenth-century England across the American continent have captivated readers for three decades through seventeen novels with nearly forty millions copies in print. The traditions and adventures of this family of rugged individualists who stand indomitably united when any Sackett is in trouble have inspired country songs, a popular television miniseries starring Tom Selleck (as Orrin Sackett) and Sam Elliot (as Tell Sackett), thousands of reader queries—and now, a rare full-length work of non-fiction by the worlds' all-time best-selling frontier novelist.
In a 60 Minutes profile in which he hailed Louis L'Amour as 'our professor emeritus of how the West was won,' correspondent Morley Safer observed that 'his plots may be fiction but the details therein are fact.' The Sackett Companion is the author's long-savored opportunity to present the research and probe the factors behind his Sackett fiction—novel by novel—and to elaborate on their real and fictional characters, their geography and locales, and their historical eras in encyclopedia-like detail.
In this book, subtitled A Personal Guide To The Sackett Novels, L'Amour takes us on a guided tour of his imagination to introduce us to the never-before-told sources and inspirations for these stories and the people and places that populate them. He retraces some of his travels in which he has walked the land the Sacketts walk, reliving such personal memories as the street fight he had on a hot dusty morning in New Mexico that ultimately led to the birth of the Sacketts.
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Great to be able to go back over where many of these books described. Only for the real Louis L'Amour collector.
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Great insights to writer's background and knowledge and and insipriation to all Louis L'Amour Fans. A must for anyone into the writings of Louis L'Amour whiter Sackett novels or other works.
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I'm on the road all the time so I've basically listened to most of the Sackett series on tape or CD. The problem with that compared to reading the book myself is that I miss some of the background details of the series. This book does a great job of filling in the gaps....Even for those who personally read the series. There's more of the back story that's left out of the books for one reason or other......But seeing the family tree that L'Amour made for all the generations is really something you'll want to see if you like the series as much as I do....
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I've looked for this book for years, but hadn't found it anywhere. And it was a good price, especially for a new edition.
I know now I should look on Amazon for everything very first and save myself time....
The book was a wonderful read all in itself. If you haven't read any of the Sackett stories, you will want to after reading this book. And if you are already a fan, it pulls a lot of the relationships and timelines together, which was Mr. L'Amour's purpose for the book in the very first place. But there are things in this book that Mr. L'Amour didn't write about anywhere else, either.
Another bonus in this book, is Mr. L'Amour talks in his own words. His other stories don't have as much of his own personality overlaying the characters (a good thing really, he let his characters have their own personalties), so it was nice to "get to know" Mr. L'Amour a little. He had quite a sense of humor, which he lets out in this book.
I read it in one evening, even though I had to get early for work the subsequent day. It was worth only 4 hours sleep!
One thing Mr. L'Amour talks about in this book are his female characters. All I'll say is, he's right. He does have a lot of female characters: leading ladies, supporting and background roles, good girls, bad girls, and sometimes both. (Please note: those are my descriptions.)
My mother, who is now 80 years old, introduced me to Mr. L'Amour's books when I was a young girl myself. I'm now 47, and still love reading stories like these.
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I read one Sackett novel then this. I liked the family tree and the connections to other (non-Sackett) books. I also appreciated knowing who was in each book, the time period, the place, and a little bit about the plot. I used it to decide which Sackett novel to read next. Also interspersed with everything else is a littl bit about what went into a book, what happened to Mr. L'Amour, and some quoteable quips. A great introduction to the Sackett books and the author.
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