Sackett: The Sacketts, Book 8
Written by Louis L'Amour
Narrated by David Strathairn
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William Tell Sackett had followed a different path from his younger brothers, but his name, like theirs, was spoken with respect and just a little fear. Where Orrin had brought law and order from New Mexico to the plains of Montana, backed up by the gunfighting talents of his brother Tye, Tell Sackett’s destiny drew him to Texas after he had to kill a man. There, in the high, lonesome country, he came upon a vein of pure gold. All he’d wanted was enough to buy a ranch, but he soon learned that gold had ways of its own with men.
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Reviews for Sackett
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In this book we meet William Tell Sackett, older brother to Ty and Orrin who we first met in The Daybreakers. Tell has been drifting since the War, and decides it's time to do something with his life. He stumbles upon gold, and a girl, and trouble, as usual.I love Tell and his laid back attitude. He's prefers to use humor to confuse and confound those who are spoiling for a fight, and I found myself laughing at times as I reread Sackett. This story remains a favorite of mine.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A relatively short novel about William Tell Sackett, older brother of Orrin and Tyrel from The Daybreakers. Tell is bigger-than-life, and twice as sturdy. On his way to New Mexico to find his brothers, after a cattle drive in Montana, he happens on a starving young woman in a cave that also happens to hold a hella stash of easy-to-get-at goooooold that she and her grandfather were looking for with the help of a very old Spanish map. So Tell rescues her, dispatching some bad dudes who have been hunting for him for a while, and sets out to get as much gold out of the mountain as possible before winter makes it impossible to get there or----wait for it----get OUT again. Tell wants to settle down, and hopes maybe this girl is for him, but even after he's played the hero card, she won't be easy to convince. I enjoyed this slightly outlandish tale of adventure in the High Lonesome, and I sincerely hope Tell gets what he wants. He earned it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South of the Tetons, William Tell Sackett discovers a forgotten valley that holds a fortune in gold, but gold comes with a heap of trouble all its own...
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoyed this book. It is far more complex than the movie would suggest. Tell Sackett is a thoughtful man who considers honor and duty. He also has thoughts about the effects of literacy. It is this that makes it a classic Western and raises it well above the average.If you want to introduce someone to the Western genre, this would be a good entry point.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The narrator did famously and made the story alive thanks,
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I must admit I’m not a big Western reader. I think the American West is an amazing chapter in our history: unique in the world, fascinating in its tough ideals, and interesting in the squabbles between the American Indian and the white American cowboy.
The last Louis L ’Amour book I read was “Haunted Mesa” which I enjoyed because of its science fiction elements. But I digress!
I’ve heard of the Sackett novels of course but never read them. Picked this copy up at a half-price store and was certainly taken in by William Tell Sackett.
I loved how the author puts in the concepts of honor, the importance of literacy and the power of gold. Tell had killed a man and that man’s family is out to get him. Tell also gets himself in trouble in Vegas, with more greedy men on his trail.
Despite all this, Tell rises above the craven need for attention and for money. He discovers his gold mine, dating from the Spanish conquest, and falls in love with a woman survivor up near the mine, whose family owned the map!
The author paints a picture of a rough, American West, how nature abides man to a point, and how love conquers all. Yes, there are parts of the tale that are a bit cheesy and melodramatic, but I enjoyed it regardless.
Highly recommended tale of the Old West. Gotta pick me up some more Sacketts! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another excellent story by L'Amour about the type of men who settled the west. After the Civil War he drifted west working anything from cattle drives to riverboats. After killing a man who tried to kill him he decided it was time to try to improve his life. On his way down to New Mexico to visit his brothers (see Daybreakers) he stumbles on a rich vein of gold. After talking to his brothers he and Cap Rountree get the supplies together to mine that gold. With gold being one of those things that tends to draw unwanted attention they ran into trouble almost from the beginning. Also in the valley where he found the gold he found a young woman whose grandfather had found the gold first. He rescued her and faced the trouble that found them. Tell is another one of L'Amour's quiet heroes. He doesn't go looking for trouble but he doesn't run from it either. He has a strict code of honor and believes in the difference between right and wrong. One of the things he was determined to do was to improve his reading which he did by reading a book about law which gave him a lot to think about. I also liked the way that he tried to resolve issues without shooting if it was possible. Besides the intense drama of some of the events, there were also some funny times. I really enjoyed the shaving scene at the beginning and also his dealing with the interlopers of the town near the end.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Older brother to Orrin and Tyrel Sackett, Tell's beginning to think he may never measure up to his younger brothers. Discovering gold and starting a town seems like a good start - but gold comes with a heap of trouble all its own...Short on pages and long on description, but as readable as any of L'Amour's Sackett novels.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I read this book for a senior seminar on Western Literature. It was good to read the stereotypes and mythology of the West, but my goodness, this was terrible. Poorly written, ideologically offensive, misogynistic, anachronistic historical fiction. I'm desperately hoping the West has something else to show for itself.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I've been a fan of the Sackett series of novels by Louis L'Amour when I first read them as a teen. This particular book in the series centers mostly around Tell Sackett, gold, a newly established town, his bride-to-be Ange and an assortment of bad guys after Tell and his gold. It's a pretty straightforward western told in the typical L'Amour style but that is what I like about his novels.