Louis L'Amour has often been described as "America's favorite story teller". His novels and stories of the American frontier and the west have been among my personal favorites since I first began reading.
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Works by Louis L'Amour
The Sacketts
The story of Louis L'Amour's fictional Sackett family begins with Barnabas Sackett leaving The Fens of Cambridgeshire in East Anglia (England). Arriving in America he founds the Sackett clan, a family of men and women who embody the frontier spirit who move westward with the expansion of the United States.
Sackett Characters
Barnabas Sackett
Kin Ring Sackett
Brian Sackett
Yance Sackett
Jubal Sackett
Ethan Sackett
Echo Sackett
Em (Sackett) Talon
Milo Talon (Cousin)
Parmalee Sackett
William Tell Sackett
Orrin Sackett
Tyrel Sackett
Falcon Sackett
Orlando Sackett
Nolan Sackett
Logan Sackett
Flagan Sackett
Galloway Sackett
Sacketts (Listed in the reading order suggested by the author)
1. Sackett's Land (1974)
2. To the Far Blue Mountains (1976)
3. The Warrior's Path: The Sacketts: A Novel (1980)
4. Jubal Sackett (1985)
5. Ride the River (1983)
6. The Daybreakers (1960)
7. The Courting of Griselda (in End of the Drive )
8. Sackett (1961)
9. Lando (1962)
10. Booty for a Badman (in War Party )
11. Mojave Crossing (1964)
12. Mustang Man (1966)
13. The Lonely Men (1969)
14. Galloway (1970)
15. Treasure Mountain (1972)
16. Lonely on the Mountain (1980)
17. Ride the Dark Trail (1972)
18. The Sackett Brand (1965)
19. The Sky-Liners (1967)
The Sackett Companion : A Personal Guide to the Sackett Novels (1988)
Other Series:
Hopalong Cassidy (writing as Tex Burns)
The Riders of High Rock (1951)
The Rustlers of West Fork (1951)
The Trail to Seven Pines (1951)
Trouble Shooter (1952)
Kilkenny
Kilkenny (1954)
The Rider of Lost Creek (1976)
The Mountain Valley War (A Man Called Trent)(1978)
A Gun for Kilkenny (1997)
Monument Rock
Talon and Chantry
North to the Rails (1971)
The Ferguson Rifle (1973)
The Man from the Broken Hills (1975)
Over On the Dry Side (1975)
Rivers West (1975)
Borden Chantry (1977)
Fair Blows the Wind (1978)
Milo Talon (1981)
Other Novels:
Westward the Tide (1950)
Crossfire Trail (1953)
Hondo (1953)
Showdown at Yellow Butte (1953) (writing as Jim Mayo)
Utah Blaine (1954) (writing as Jim Mayo)
To Tame a Land (1955)
Guns of the Timberlands (1955)
Heller with a Gun (1955)
The Burning Hills (1956)
Silver Canyon (1956)
Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957)
Sitka (1957)
Radigan (1958)
The First Fast Draw (1959)
Taggart (1959)
Flint (1960)
Killoe (1962)
High Lonesome (1962)
Shalako (1962)
Dark Canyon (1963)
Catlow (1963)
Fallon (1963)
How the West Was Won (1963)
Hanging Woman Creek (1964)
Kiowa Trail (1964)
Key-lock Man (1965)
The High Graders (1965)
Kilrone (1966)
Kid Rodelo (1966)
The Broken Gun (1966)
Matagorda (1967)
Chancy (1968)
Down the Long Hills (1968)
Brionne (1968)
The Tall Stranger (1969)
The Empty Land (1969)
Conagher (1969)
The Man Called Noon (1970)
Reilly's Luck (1970)
Under the Sweetwater Rim (1971)
Tucker (1971)
Callaghen (1972)
The Man from Skibbereen (1973)
The Quick and the Dead (1973)
The Californios (1974)
Where the Long Grass Blows (1976)
Bendigo Shafter (1978)
The Iron Marshal (1979)
The Proving Trail (1979)
Comstock Lode (1981)
The Cherokee Trail (1982)
The Shadow Riders (1982)
The Lonesome Gods (1983)
Rawhide Range (1983)
Son of a Wanted Man (1984)
Walking Drum (1984)
Passin' Through (1985)
Last of the Breed (1986)
Man Riding West (1986)
West of Pilot Range (1986)
South of Deadwood (1986)
A Trail to the West (Chick Bowdrie Series) (1986)
Where Buzzards Fly: Chick Bowdrie (1986)
The Haunted Mesa (1987)
L'Amour touched on spirit worlds and paranormal in several of his works, in Haunted Mesa he brought this theme to the forefront with an alternate or paralell world touching our own.
From the Hardback:
"The Navajo called them the Anasazi: an enigmatic race of southwestern cliff dwellers. For centuries, the sudden disappearance of this proud and noble people has baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter form an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revaltion. Crossing the border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn the astonishing legacy of the Anasazi -- but not without a price. Set in the contemporary Southwest, "The Haunted Mesa" draws on Louis L'Amour's extensive knowledge of Indian lore and mysticism. In this extraordinary book L'Amour tells a tale of epic adventure that takes his readers across the most extraordinary frontier they have ever encountered."
An adventure in the spirit of the old west set in contemporary Siberia.
From the E-Book:
". . . the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native Alekhin, who knows every square foot of the icy frontier—and who knows that to trap his quarry he must think like a Sioux."
Trouble finds William Tell Sackett quite often. This time it looks like it will take the entire Sackett Clan to get him out of it.
From the Hardback:
"Forty gunslingers from the Lazy A have got Tell Sackett cornered under the Mogollon Rim. They're fixing to hang him if they can capture him alive, fill him extra full of lead if they can't. But the Sacketts don't cotton to that sort of treatment. Hunt one Sackett and you hunt 'em all. So they're riding in from all over -- mountain Sacketts, outlaws, cattleman, bankers and the rest. They'll fight with Tell on this one -- if they can get there before Tell kills all forty hardcases himself."
A father searching for his son and the daughter of friends in the Larami Mountains during winter. . .
From the Paperback:
"After the massacre Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only a horse and a knife with which to face the long battle against the wilderness. A seven-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, stranded on the limitless prairie. They were up against starvation, marauding Indians, savage outlaws, and wild animals. They were mighty stubborn, but the odds were against them and their luck was about to run out."
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