The Sackett Companion: The Facts Behind the Fiction-Fast Shipping

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Little did Louis L’Amour realize back in 1960when he published The Daybreakers, a novel about two brothers who came west after theCivil War, that he had beguncreating what wouldbecome perhaps North America’s most widely followedliteraryfamily: the Sacketts. The stories of ten generations of Sackett men and women astheyforged westward from tyranny-wrackedseventeenth-century England across theAmerican continent havecaptivated readers for three decades through seventeennovels with nearly forty millions copies in traditions and adventuresof this family ofrugged individualists who stand indomitably unitedwhen any Sackettis in trouble have inspiredcountry songs, a popular television miniseries starringTom Selleck (as Orrin Sackett) and Sam Elliot (asTell Sackett), thousands of readerqueries—andnow, a rare full-length work of non-fiction by theworlds’ all-timebest-selling frontier novelist.

In a 60 Minutes profile in which he hailed LouisL’Amour as”our professor emeritus of how the West was won,”correspondent MorleySafer observed that “hisplots may be fiction but the details therein are fact.”The Sackett Companion is the author’s long-savored opportunity to present the researchand probe the factors behind hisSackett fiction—novel by novel—and to elaborateontheir real and fictional characters, their geography and locales, and their historicaleras in encyclopedia-like detail.

In this book, subtitled A Personal Guide To TheSackett Novels, L’Amour takes us on a guided tour of his imagination to introduceus to the never-before-told sources and inspirations for thesestories and the peopleand places that populate them. He retraces some of his travels in which he has walkedthe land the Sacketts walk, reliving such personal memories as the street fight hehad ona hot dusty morning in New Mexico that ultimatelyled to the birth of theSacketts.