The Sackett Companion (Paperback)

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.