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The Sackett Companion

The Facts Behind the Fiction

Louis L'Amour

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English
Bantam Books Inc
01 March 1993
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.
By:  
Imprint:   Bantam Books Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   448g
ISBN:   9780553371024
ISBN 10:   0553371029
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Our foremost storyteller of the American West, Louis L'Amour has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world.

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