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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House USA INC International Concepts, Bantam Interactive Technology Doubleday Dell Publishing Group INC International Concepts
ISBN-100553371029
ISBN-139780553371024
eBay Product ID (ePID)90683542
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Sackett Companion: the Facts Behind the Fiction
AuthorLouis L'Amour
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral Fiction, Books
Publication Year1992
GenreGeneral & Literary Fiction
Number of Pages352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height229mm
Item Width152mm
Weight450g
Height228mm
Width154mm
Item Weight448g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorLouis L'amour
Spine25mm
Content NoteIllustrations
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 03 Jun, 2021
Excellent companion book
This book gives you all the character and background information you want to know about many of Louis L’amour’s novels. It’s a good read straight through on its own or as an excellent reference book as you read the novels.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 11 Feb, 2021
Socket companion
Excellent background information on the author and his booksVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 29 Aug, 2019
Happy
Happy with the book just what I wantedVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
