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Summary: The Sackett Brand to Me
Review: After reading this book and thinking back to it then I realize how much I really liked it. The main thing that I like about it so much was not the plot but how accurate the story was portrayed. The author did a great job of portraying how cowboys lived and felt back then. He showed the type of men they were and described in detail the way a man would go about things in the old west. This story had a great start that grabbed your attention and had suspence around every corner. It left you woundering what would happen next and if the main character would live or not. I enjoyed every part of the book except for one. The only chapter I did not like was the 9th because all it did was tell about the brothers of Sackett finding out what happened to him. Other than that borring chapter I would recomend this book to anyone that likes an old western adventure book.
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Summary: The Sackett Brand to Me
Review: After reading this book and thinking back to it then I realize how much I really liked it. The main thing that I like about it so much was not the plot but how accurate the story was portrayed. The author did a great job of portraying how cowboys lived and felt back then. He showed the type of men they were and described in detail the way a man would go about things in the old west. This story had a great start that grabbed your attention and had suspence around every corner. It left you woundering what would happen next and if the main character would live or not. I enjoyed every part of the book except for one. The only chapter I did not like was the 9th because all it did was tell about the brothers of Sackett finding out what happened to him. Other than that borring chapter I would recomend this book to anyone that likes an old western adventure book.
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Summary: 6 stars!
Review: Everyone of Louis L'Amour's books deserve 6 stars
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Summary: Over the top, stretches credibility too far.
Review: Not one of Louis L'Amour's best. He stretches credibility too far. How can a single man, make a woman, a wagon and a team of mules vanish while mustering cattle with his forty cowboys , in country where everybody is an expert tracker. Also our hero, Tell Sackett, hides himself out in this wild country, but gets himself discovered with great regularity by the searching bad guys, not to mention a bad woman. The rest of the Sackett clan are given a great build up, but play disappointingly minor parts. However they come from all over the west and turn up together just in the nick of time to save our hero from impossible odds.
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Summary: The Sackett clan rides to the rescue.
Review: Somebody ambushed Tell Sackett and left him for dead. It takes more, however, than cowardly sidewinders to kill a Sackett. Even worse, Tell's wife is missing. After Tell determines that somebody of Lazy A ranch is guilty, he launches a one-man war against the cowboys. Word spreads of the conflict, and Sackett brothers and cousins come out of the sagebrush to even the odds. Typical of Louis L'Amour, this novel is a quick hit of Western action. The Sackett tales stress family solidarity. L'Amour is adept at writing of the lure of distant trails, the freedom of the big sky country, and the Code of the West. He breathes new life and spirit into the usual elements of Western fiction. This is good downtime reading. Enjoy the ride. ;-)
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Summary: The Sackett clan rides to the rescue.
Review: Somebody ambushed Tell Sackett and left him for dead. It takes more, however, than cowardly sidewinders to kill a Sackett. Even worse, Tell's wife is missing. After Tell determines that somebody of Lazy A ranch is guilty, he launches a one-man war against the cowboys. Word spreads of the conflict, and Sackett brothers and cousins come out of the sagebrush to even the odds. Typical of Louis L'Amour, this novel is a quick hit of Western action. The Sackett tales stress family solidarity. L'Amour is adept at writing of the lure of distant trails, the freedom of the big sky country, and the Code of the West. He breathes new life and spirit into the usual elements of Western fiction. This is good downtime reading. Enjoy the ride. ;-)
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Summary: MORE WILD ADVENTUROUS WILDERNESS TALES
Review: Taking place several years after The Daybreakers, this book tells of the adventures of Orrin and Tyrel Sackett's oldest brother, Tell. In this story Tell Sackett and his wife are moving to Arizona with everything they have to establish an outfit and a new life. But when Tell leaves the wagon for a few hours and goes scouting ahead he is shot in the head with a grazing bullet. He immediately plummets down the near vertical hillside hundreds of feet but miraculously he survives. Of course, since somebody's after him for a reason that he finds to be a mystery, he escapes pursuit and gets away for the time being.
He eventually manages to return to the site of his wagon. There he finds it virtually gone and burnt to pieces. And his wife Ange is missing. Eventually Tell makes it to a fort and finds aid for his wounded and battered body. He also discovers that he is being hunted by an outfit of forty men hired by Swandle and Allen. After having mostly recovered from his fall, Tell returns to look for the body he hopes he'd never find but he does. After giving his wife a proper burial he swears to hunt down the man that murdered her, and get revenge. But the odds of 40 to 1 aren't good. Tell eventually finds his luck running out along with supplies and places to hide. But an occurrence such as this is not common so the word gets out. And eventually another Sackett hears about it. Shortly afterwards there is a large group of Sacketts running to help Tell, including his brothers, Orrin and Tyrel. But some of them fear that Tell will kill all forty men before they get a taste of the action.
I thought this was a relatively enjoyable book. I don't think it was as good as The Daybreakers but it was better than others. It had a lot of good action and gun fighting in it and I liked that they included Orrin and Tyrel. I also liked the part in the book where Tell is being pursued by hired guns up a high ledge when he comes face to face with a mountain lion. I think I will continue to read the adventures of the Sackett family in further books.
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Summary: for my money, L'Amour's best
Review: This book builds superbly, holding one's interest throughout. One can easily sympathize with Tell Sackett, being generally hassled for no good reason, and the hard confidence of his kin as they ride to his aid sets up two or three of the best scenes I've ever read in a Western, period. By the time they get there, you wish that you were yourself a Sackett--of whatever occupation--with the right to stand as one of the family when your relative is being ganged up on. While the Sackett series is generally accepted as one of the best Western series out there, this one stands above the others. Words are used economically to portray the characters; L'Amour doesn't waste your time. I've probably read 200 Westerns in my life (not many, I realize), and if I could keep only one, this would be it.
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Summary: for my money, L'Amour's best
Review: This book builds superbly, holding one's interest throughout. One can easily sympathize with Tell Sackett, being generally hassled for no good reason, and the hard confidence of his kin as they ride to his aid sets up two or three of the best scenes I've ever read in a Western, period. By the time they get there, you wish that you were yourself a Sackett--of whatever occupation--with the right to stand as one of the family when your relative is being ganged up on. While the Sackett series is generally accepted as one of the best Western series out there, this one stands above the others. Words are used economically to portray the characters; L'Amour doesn't waste your time. I've probably read 200 Westerns in my life (not many, I realize), and if I could keep only one, this would be it.
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Summary: MORE WILD ADVENTUROUS WILDERNESS TALES
Review: This has to be one of the best of Louis Lamour. What makes this one stand apart is that it is less predictable than his other novels, in that everyone doesn't end up riding away into the sunset. It has been years since I read this novel, but I can still remember it vividly.
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