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The Sackett Brand (The Sacketts #10) Paperback – November 1, 1985

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In The Sackett Brand, Louis L’Amour spins the story of a courageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down a killer.

Tell Sackett and his bride, Ange, came to Arizona to build a home and start a family. But on Black Mesa, something goes terribly wrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally manages to drag himself back to where he left Ange, she is gone. Desperate, cold, hungry, and with nothing to defend himself, Tell is stalked like a wounded animal. While he hides from his attackers, his rage and frustration mount as he tries to figure out who the men are, why they are trying to kill him, and what has happened to his wife. Discovering the truth will be risky. And when he finally does, it will be their turn to run.
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An ambushed Tell Sackett must fight to survive being stalked in the wilds of Black Mesa.

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Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, Louis L'Amour has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and women who settled the American frontier. There are more than 260 million copies of his books in print around the world.

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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam; Reprint edition (November 1, 1985)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 151 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553276859
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553276855
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 890L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.21 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.1 x 0.45 x 6.9 inches
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"I think of myself in the oral tradition--as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of a campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered--as a storyteller. A good storyteller."

It is doubtful that any author could be as at home in the world re-created in his novels as Louis Dearborn L'Amour. Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally "walked the land my characters walk." His personal experiences as well as his lifelong devotion to historical research combined to give Mr. L'Amour the unique knowledge and understanding of people, events, and the challenge of the American frontier that became the hallmarks of his popularity.

Of French-Irish descent, Mr. L'Amour could trace his own in North America back to the early 1600s and follow their steady progression westward, "always on the frontier." As a boy growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, he absorbed all he could about his family's frontier heritage, including the story of his great-grandfather who was scalped by Sioux warriors.

Spurred by an eager curiosity and desire to broaden his horizons, Mr. L'Amour left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs, including seaman, lumberjack, elephant handler, skinner of dead cattle, and miner, and was an officer in the transportation corps during World War II. During his "yondering" days he also circled the world on a freighter, sailed a dhow on the Red Sea, was shipwrecked in the West Indies and stranded in the Mojave Desert. He won fifty-one of fifty-nine fights as a professional boxer and worked as a journalist and lecturer. He was a voracious reader and collector of rare books. His personal library contained 17,000 volumes.

Mr. L'Amour "wanted to write almost from the time I could talk." After developing a widespread following for his many frontiers and adventure stories written for fiction magazines, Mr. L'Amour published his first full length novel, Hondo, in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 120 books is in print; there are more than 300 million copies of his books in print worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors in modern literary history. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and more than forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and television movies.

The recipient of many great honor and awards, in 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress in honor of his life's work. In 1984 he was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.

Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988. His wife, Kathy, and their two children, Beau and Angelique, carry the L'Amour publishing tradition forward with new books written by the author during his lifetime to be published by Bantam.

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Customers find the book engaging and well-written. They appreciate the vivid story and well-crafted plot. The writing style keeps readers hooked with its captivating imagery and storytelling. Readers praise the characters as heroic and relatable, describing them as their family. The series content is also appreciated, with the Sackett series being a must-read for fans.

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Customers find the book easy to read and enjoyable. They describe it as a satisfying and entertaining read, with well-done action sequences. Readers praise the author's straightforward writing style and consider the book a good example of journalism fiction.

"So many years after it was written, it is still a very good read. Of all the books about the Sacketts this my favorite." Read more

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"...They were great escapism for a poor kid who was a cowboy wanna-be. They're still good stories." Read more

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"...most remarkable characters created by Louis L'Amour - and the plot itself is riveting as is all of his work...." Read more

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"I would recommend this to anyone who likes to read good, well written westerns. I couldn’t put it down until I finished reading the last page." Read more

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2024
    So many years after it was written, it is still a very good read. Of all the books about the Sacketts this my favorite.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2014
    For almost two decades, Jubal Sackett was the only Sackett I'd read about. I am a book reader, and hadn't owned a television for some thirty-five years; but whenever I mentioned Louis L'Amour, most people seemed to know his work from the Sackett TV series - and they raved. So I thought I'd find out what all the excitement was about... by reading the entire Sackett series. This novel in particular stands out because it embodies the idea that when you mess with one Sackett, you mess with them all. It brings together in one story many of the most remarkable characters created by Louis L'Amour - and the plot itself is riveting as is all of his work. It's pretty obvious to me that Mr. L'Amour's history as a prize fighter followed him into his writing career, because he never fails to land a knockout punch. A fast-paced, thoroughly satisfying read.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2024
    Awesome! Edge of your seat reading, from the first page to the last. Couldn't put it down. Mr L'Amour at his best.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2013
    This is western gun fighter adventure. Our main hero, as this book has many, Tell Sackett gets ambushed and shot, and his wife gets killed.The rest of the story is Tell and all his kin folk extracting revenge on the evil-doers. I first read all these books 40 years ago, in paperback. They were great escapism for a poor kid who was a cowboy wanna-be. They're still good stories.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2024
    A friend loaned me several Louis L'Amour books to read while I recovered from surgery. I got hooked on Louis L'Amours style and now have read dozens of his works. This book helped fill in the last few in the Sackett series for me.
  • Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2024
    Like all of the L’amour stories there is a vague similarity but the imagery and writing is so captivating you can’t stop wanting more. I began reading Louis L’amour in the 1960’s when he was a patient of a good friend of mine. I’ve read them all and wish he was still writing them.
  • Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2023
    Love Westerns! Louis L'Amour is usually a good bet. Pretty good story.
  • Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2023
    Louis L’Amour really wrote a winner in this book. If you are reading the whole series, you will really want to read this one, it ties the others together. I am off to find the next one in the series.

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  • Liz B
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Best!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2024
    This is the best Sackett book and the only one I have in paperback. Why is it not on kindle? Life would be so much easier if it was with the rest of my collection and I didn’t have to go looking for it every time I want to read it!
  • The Good Read
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Good Read
    Reviewed in Spain on December 26, 2023
    What is there to say 5stars triple A the best western writer ever his books have everything you need in a good western and this book is no exception.
  • ANU LAL (Bestselling Author)
    5.0 out of 5 stars THE HUNTED COWBOY: Why is it important to run in our time?
    Reviewed in India on June 14, 2015
    If you could read Salman Rushdie’s latest book Joseph Anton stripped off the subtitle autobiography, you may very likely find the story of a hunted man. Certainly, something draws us towards the plight of the hunted. Perhaps, every one of us might have been in situations that are little different, at some point in time. Or we fear, sometimes, we might be forced to live in the shoes of those who live in constant fear from the hunters. I came across Louis L’Amour through a deliberate accident. I like to think of that event as a pleasant treasure that the Book Universe had in store for me. I had never heard of him before. Never had I had the chance to read a western thriller novel. Of course, I knew about Zane Grey and others and knew what the genre has in store for the readers. Call it prejudice or awareness, if you will. That does not change the reality, tough. Anyway, this coincidence altered by the unexpected turn of events. The first book I read of L’Amour was about a hunted man who denies himself the plight of being hunted and becomes the hunter himself.

    William Tell Sackett is scouting for a trail to reach the Mogollon Rim. His aim is to establish a ranch and raise a family there. He dreams of peaceful times and happiness. In this dream, he finds joy and contentment. He is not alone in this journey. His beautiful wife Ange accompanies Tell Sackett. In this journey that curiously symbolizes man’s journey into his promised land, humanity’s journey toward the paradise they had lost, Tell Sackett faces a challenge no man can easily come out from. The challenge is called death.

    Toward the end of the summer of 2015, I was searching through Amazon’s online shopping site to see if any discount sales existed during this period. That was when I bumped upon Louis L’Amour’s book The Sackett Brand. The first reason I stopped on the book was the price. It cost only Rs 165. Then it was the cover. The cover of The Sackett Brand showed three cowboys observing the onlooker from a bar’s counter. No other cover image could have captured the spirit of the book so efficiently. And I loved them cowboys for their attitude—men who lived their lives carrying less for professional growth perhaps, and more for freedom and dignity. Thus, The Sackett Brand fell into my summer reading list.

    The Sackett Brand is a serious book. It’s witty while being serious. Short and witty sentences make The Sackett Brand a stylish western thriller.

    My short research revealed that L’Amour’s storytelling is so unique that he was able to command the mind and body of the reader through the pages of his books. Readers still feel that magic after twenty-seven years of his death. His narrative skills arrest the reader and takes him away from his daily reality. The reader is taken away into a world of adventure, love, motivation, action, and revenge. I found myself speaking, living and fighting for survival along with the protagonist in a wild west territory while I was immersed in the reading of the book.

    Tell Sackett had two things to do to survive; one— to find who his enemies are, two— to hunt them. But he was a lone man. How could fight against forty tough gunslingers running across the country in search of him?

    Louis L’Amour wrote 89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction in his lifetime. He was born in 22 March 1908. He passed from this dimension into the other on 10 June 1988. This gives us, his fans to celebrate his 27th death anniversary this year. Although he primarily wrote western novels, also known as frontier stories, his books such as The Haunted Mesa is classified as science fiction. Many of his books became movies in Hollywood.

    His full name is Louis Dearborn LaMoore. He was a boxer and had legendary number of victories in the ring. Perhaps, this real-time experience is the true inspiration behind many of the action scenes in the book. “The Sacketts” is a series that features adventures and exploits of the members of a large family called The Sacketts.

    Towards the end of The Sackett brand, Tell Sackett deeply desires that he had company. Now he was a lonely man fighting forty others. It was natural that the man wished for someone to stand by him, to watch his back, although Tell Sackett alone was enough to handle the forty rowdies. Gradually, the news of a hunted man near the Mogollan Rim catches wind. The lonely man was a Sackett. Many others find it a bit uncomfortable, for it is their family name. What had happened to the man that carries their family name?

    In a matter of days, the Sacketts all round up from every part of the southwest region.

    Now they hunt.

    Spoiler Alert: Louis L’Amour owns a biography that his books might envy. You can read it here: Louis L’Amour Website

    Anu Lal
    author of You Should Know How I Feel and Hope, Vengeance and History Trilogy
  • Jo-Anne
    5.0 out of 5 stars I have enjoyed all the books written by Louis L'Amour
    Reviewed in Australia on September 21, 2014
    I have enjoyed all the books written by Louis L'Amour.
  • Garfield Ransford Boyd
    5.0 out of 5 stars Book
    Reviewed in Canada on May 28, 2024
    A typical Louis Lamour book descriptive and fast moving.