18 books like The Sackett brand

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The man from Broken Hills Louis L'Amour · 1975 · ★ 4.2 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The Sacketts were fierce fighting men from the hills of Tennessee. The Talons were French, but a life of piracy brought them to America. Milo was half Talon, half Sackett. He’d been riding the outlaw trail for three years, but now he was hunting a man who had betrayed a trust with his own kin. And when he found him, Milo Talon would do no less than any Sackett or Talon before him. Shares: Sackett family, Western, Westerns

The Sky-Liners Louis L'Amour · 1967 · ★ 4.5 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In The Sky-Liners, Louis L'Amour introduces Flagan and Galloway Sackett, heading west from Tennessee to seek their fortunes. That's when they came across an old Irish trader who offered them two fine horses if they would agree to escort his granddaughter, Judith, to her father in Colorado. Flagan saw nothing but trouble in the fiery young woman, but they needed the horses. Unfortunately, Flagan… Shares: Sackett family, Western

The Daybreakers Louis L'Amour · 1960 · ★ 4.3 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! Tyrel Sackett was born into trouble but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to… Shares: Sackett family, Western, Westerns

Lonely Men Louis L'Amour · 1969 · ★ 4.5 · 171p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In The Lonely Men, Louis L’Amour spins the tale of a man who must elude an Apache trap—only to discover that his greatest enemy might be very close to home. Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and managed to take something of value from his battles: a deep and abiding respect. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap his nephew, forcing Tell to cross the border into the Sierra… Shares: Sackett family, Western, Westerns

Sackett's Land Louis L'Amour · 1973 · ★ 4.5 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil's Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead. A battlefield promise made to Sackett's father threatens Genester's inheritance. So on the eve of his departure for America, Sackett is… Shares: Sackett family, Westerns

Lonely on the Mountain Louis L'Amour · 1900 · ★ 4.2 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can’t drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, he must brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties. But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett’s… Shares: Sackett family, Western

Flint Louis L'Amour · 1960 · ★ 4.3 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Moderate He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America--and one of the most feared and hated.Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed… Shares: Western, Westerns

Riding for the Brand Louis L'Amour · 1985 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The open West was a land where wanderers could find themselves a home--a home to fight for, to be changed by, sometimes to die for. Jed Ashbury was one such journeyman, taking on the identity of a dead man. Allen Ring was another: he'd won his plot of land in a card game only to find he had to win again with a gun. From a has-been boxer to a ranch hand taking on his bosses' troubles, the… Shares: Western, Westerns

Utah Blaine Louis L'Amour · 1954 · ★ 4.2 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of the Revolution, broke out of jail and headed north from Mexico with nothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new trouble struggling at the end of a noose–and stepped in just in time to save the life of a Texas rancher. The would-be executioners were the rancher’s own men, looking to steal his land. Now Utah has a unique proposition: Have… Shares: Western, Westerns

Rivers West Louis L'Amour · 1974 · ★ 4.1 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate His dream was to build magnificent steamboats to ply the rivers of the American frontier. But when Jean Talon began his journey westward, he stumbled upon a deadly conspiracy involving a young woman’s search to find her missing brother, and a ruthless band of renegades. Led by the brazen Baron Torville, this makeshift army of opportunists is plotting a violent takeover of the Louisiana Territory.… Shares: Western, Westerns

The Trail to Crazy Man Louis L'Amour · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A word from Louis L'Amour:"Almost forty years ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in 'pulp' western magazines, I wrote several novel-length stories, which my editors called 'magazine novels'. In creating them, I became so involved with my characters that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared became collector's… Shares: Western, Westerns

Tucker William johnstone · 1971 · ★ 2.0 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate If a man won't fight for what is rightly his, then he ain't much account." With this challenge from his dying father, young Shell Tucker rode out after three men who had stolen the twenty thousand dollars his father was carrying. Two of the men he hunted, Doc Sites and Kid Reese, were his friends. Dreaming of adventure, Tucker had wanted to join their gang. But now, with his father gone and the… Shares: Western, Westerns

Kilkenny Louis L'Amour · 1954 · ★ 4.5 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Moderate As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!   Kilkenny wasn’t looking for trouble when he entered the Clifton House stage station, but trouble found him when a reckless youngster named Tetlow challenged him, drew his gun, and paid for it with his life. Looking to escape a reputation that he never wanted, Kilkenny settles in the… Shares: Western, Westerns

Matagorda Louis L'Amour · 1967 · ★ 4.1 · 163p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery--and finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and the neighboring Munson family. Around Matagorda Island, most people are either backing the Munsons or… Shares: Western, Westerns

Rider of the Ruby Hills Louis L'Amour · 1986 · ★ 4.5 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A WORD FROM LOUIS L’AMOUR “Almost four decades ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in ‘pulp’ western magazines, I wrote a number of novel-length stories, known back then as ‘magazine novels.’ In creating them, I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared went out of print.… Shares: Western, Westerns

The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard Elmore Leonard · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 545p · ≈ 18h · Moderate No one is more evocative of the dusty, gutsy hey-day of the American West than Elmore Leonard. And no story about a young writer struggling to launch his career ever matched its subject matter better than the tale behind Leonard's Western oeuvre.In 1950, fresh out of college -- having written two "pointless" stories, as he describes them -- Leonard decided he needed to pick a market, a big one,… Shares: Western, Westerns

Buckskin Run Louis L'Amour · 1981 · ★ 4.5 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A Collection of Short Stories. Louis L'amour, Nuff Said. Shares: Western, Westerns

The proving trail Louis L'Amour · 1978 · ★ 4.2 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Moderate They tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. No matter what life had dealt him, his father would go down fighting. And as he delved deeper into the mystery, he learned that just before his father died, the elder McRaven had experienced a remarkable run of luck: he'd won nearly ten thousand dollars and the deed to a cattle ranch.Not yet eighteen,… Shares: Western, Westerns

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