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Sacketts

The Sacketts is Louis L’Amour’s seventeen-novel family chronicle, beginning with Barnabas Sackett in Elizabethan England and following successive generations into colonial North America and the nineteenth-century American West. The sequence moves from Atlantic migration and early settlement to river travel, cattle country, mining districts, Apache conflict and range violence.

The novels are linked by family identity rather than one continuous plot. Different branches of the Sacketts repeatedly answer calls for help, and L’Amour uses that loyalty to connect several centuries of American expansion. For HBS, each volume is linked to its own most specific historical setting rather than assigning the entire series to one broad western period.

Reading order

Books in this series (17 books)

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1. Sackett’s Land

Louis L’Amour

First published 1974

4.5(4,393)

Set in Elizabethan England in the later sixteenth century, as Barnabas Sackett looks toward North America, Sackett’s Land is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. Sackett’s Land follows characters whose fortunes are shaped by violence, movement and opportunity on the historical frontier.…

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2. To the Far Blue Mountains

Louis L’Amour

First published 1976

4.6(3,736)

Set in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, as Barnabas Sackett crosses between Elizabethan England and early colonial North America, To the Far Blue Mountains is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L'Amour weaves the…

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3. The Warrior’s Path

Louis L’Amour

First published 1980

4.5(3,617)

Set in seventeenth-century colonial North America, The Warrior’s Path is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. The Warrior's Path, Louis L'Amour tells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two brothers who are the last hope of a young woman who faces…

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4. Jubal Sackett

Louis L’Amour

First published 1985

4.6(3,067)

Set in seventeenth-century North America during the first generations of English colonial settlement, Jubal Sackett is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L'Amour's great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling…

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5. Ride the River

Louis L’Amour

First published 1983

4.4(3,311)

Set in the early American Republic in the opening decades of the nineteenth century, Ride the River is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett has never been far from her Tennessee home--until she makes the long trek to Philadelphia…

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6. The Daybreakers

Louis L’Amour

First published 1960

4.5(3,236)

Set in the post-Civil War cattle frontier of the American West, The Daybreakers is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. Tyrel Sackett was born into trouble but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail…

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7. Lando

Louis L’Amour

First published 1962

4.4(2,301)

Orlando "Lando" Sackett has spent six years in a brutal Mexican prison, surviving through his skill as a boxer and holding to three promises: to find the men who framed him, to return to his father and to seek out Gin Locklear. When he is finally…

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8. Sackett

Louis L’Amour

First published 1961

4.5(4,111)

Set in Colorado Territory in the post-Civil War years, Sackett is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. William Tell Sackett heads west and becomes involved in a fight over a valuable gold strike and the men determined to control it. His attempt…

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9. Mojave Crossing

Louis L’Amour

First published 1964

4.4(3,111)

Tell Sackett is carrying thirty pounds of gold when Dorinda Robiseau asks him to escort her to Los Angeles. He recognises trouble immediately but agrees to help, even though the journey will take them across the Mojave and Dorinda gives him little reason to trust her…

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10. The Sackett Brand

Louis L’Amour

First published 1965

4.7(2,829)

Set in the later nineteenth-century Arizona and New Mexico frontier, The Sackett Brand is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. Tell Sackett is wounded and isolated beneath the Mogollon Rim after a killing puts a powerful outfit on his trail. Forty hired…

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11. The Sky-Liners

Louis L’Amour

First published 1967

4.5(2,585)

Set in Colorado Territory during the years of western settlement, The Sky-Liners is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. Flagan and Galloway Sackett are heading west when an Irish trader offers them good horses in return for escorting his granddaughter Judith to…

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12. The Lonely Men

Louis L’Amour

First published 1969

4.4(3,157)

Set in the Apache-conflict era of the nineteenth-century Southwest, The Lonely Men is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. In The Lonely Men, Louis L Amour spins the tale of a man who must elude an Apache trap only to discover that…

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13. Mustang Man

Louis L’Amour

First published 1966

4.4(2,108)

Nolan Sackett meets Penelope Hume in Borregos Plaza and is drawn into a dispute over a hidden cache of gold said to belong to her family. Penelope has the strongest claim, but her relatives Sylvie, Ralph and Andrew Karnes are determined to seize the fortune for…

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14. Galloway

Louis L’Amour

First published 1970

4.4(2,650)

Flagan Sackett escapes from Apache captivity into the rugged San Juan country, where survival depends on finding water, shelter and help before his pursuers catch him. His brother Galloway eventually reaches him, but reunion only leads to another conflict when the brothers decide to establish a…

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15. Treasure Mountain

Louis L’Amour

First published 1972

4.5(2,800)

Tell and Orrin Sackett set out to discover what happened to their father, whose final journey ended in mystery. The search begins with fragmentary clues and takes the brothers through New Orleans before leading them back towards dangerous western country where someone has good reason to…

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16. Ride the Dark Trail

Louis L’Amour

First published 1972

4.5(3,775)

Logan Sackett is a rootless drifter with little interest in settling other people’s disputes until he meets Emily Talon, an elderly widow defending her ranch against neighbours who believe they can force her off the land. Em is stubborn enough to fight alone, but Logan’s attitude…

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17. Lonely on the Mountain

Louis L’Amour

First published 1980

4.4(2,963)

A rare message from a Sackett in trouble brings Tell, Orrin and Tyrel together for a difficult journey north. The brothers leave familiar country and cross long distances to reach a member of their family who may have little time left, knowing that the route will…