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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

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Little did Louis LAmour 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 million 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 Elliott (as Tell Sackett), birth names (some two dozen parents over the years have written the author to announce that they've named their sons after either Tyrel or Tell Sackett), thousands of reader queriesЧand now, a rare full-length work of nonfiction by the world's all-time bestselling frontier novelist.

THE

SACKETT COMPANION

In a 60 Minutes profile in which he hailed Louis LAmour 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 facts behind his Sackett fictionЧnovel by novelЧand 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, LAmour takes us on a guided tour of his imagination to introduce us to the never-before-told sources and inspirations for these stories

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and the people and places that populate them. He retraces some of his travels in which he has "walked the land the Sacketts walk,1 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 his Sacketts.

In addition to L'Amour's reflections and commentaries on the frontier experience as it is depicted by him in each Sackett book, The Sackett Companion features:

Х A comprehensive glossary of characters, fictional and historical, with cross-references to every Sackett novel in which they appear

Х Beautifully drawn maps charting the geographic background of each book

Х Early Sackett cover art, some of it long out of print and thus cherished by collectors

And the most-yearned-for L'Amour creation:

Х The Sackett family tree and genealogy. For years readers have attempted to put one together, an impossible task until now, as the author reveals heretofore unknown key names, relationships and connections.

The Sackett Companion is at once a unique work of personal history and frontier scholarship, and an indispensable treasury for Louis L'Amour readers to enjoy over and over again.

Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988. The only novelist ever to receive both the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Louis L'Amour has published eighty-six novels, fifteen short story collections, and two books of nonfiction. In 1989 he will become one of the few authors in modern literary history to achieve 200 million copies of his books in print. He had just completed Education of a Wandering Man, an autobiographical work, before he died.

Front Cover Art й 1988 Louis Glanzman Back Cover Photo й 1988 Nancy Ellison

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