The Sackett Companion: The Facts Behind the Fiction Paperback - 1992
by Louis L'Amour
For the first time in paperback, a guide to the backgrounds and sources of the Sackett Family series by the beloved bestselling author who created it. L'Amour shares such personal memoirs as his early adventures--wandering in wild places, working in the mines--and the street fight he had in New Mexico that ultimately led to the birth of the Sackett saga. Maps and photographs.
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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 retracessome 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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- Title The Sackett Companion: The Facts Behind the Fiction
- Author Louis L'Amour
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date November 1, 1992
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780553371024 / 0553371029
- Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 8.71 x 5.66 x 1.03 in (22.12 x 14.38 x 2.62 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Western stories, Sackett family (Fictitious characters)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88047530
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.009
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