by Louis L'Amour
I have always loved Lamour. Great characters and stories. I read this book years ago in high school. This book is the beginning of the Sackett family saga, one of the greatest families in literary history. The story is not quite a true western in that it starts in England and follows Barnabas Sacket...
Sackett's Land is my first read of Louis L'Amour. I liked it, but didn't love it. LL handles romance clumsily at best. His soulmate appears to be a woman willing to handle guns and kill people alongside her man. "I always said that I wanted a woman to walk beside me, not behind me," says main protag...