Frontier Stories and The American West: Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour (March 22, 1908 - June 10, 1988)
Born: Louis Dearborn LaMoore, Jamestown, North Dakota
Pen Names: Tex Burns, Jim Mayo
1st Published Story: Anything for a Pal 1935 in "True Gang Life" Magazine
1st Published Novel: Westward the Tide (London, England 1950; first US publication 1976)
Final Novel: The Haunted Mesa (1987)
Louis L'Amour
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.
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 strong men and women who move westward with the expansion of the United States.
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Sackett Characters |
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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 |
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
Sacketts (Listed in the reading order suggested by the author)
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1. Sackett's
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11. Mojave
Crossing |
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
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Westward the Tide (1950) |
The Haunted Mesa (1987) |
Collections
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Smoke from This Altar (poems) (1939) |
The Guns Talk Loud (1996) |
Non fiction
Frontier (1984)
A Trail of Memories: The Quotations of Louis L'amour (1988)
Education of a Wandering Man (1989)










