Some found that L’Amour is unable to sound as anything more than someone who is a mere outsider commenting on what it was like to live in 1599 England. There are one dimensional characters who feel simply phony and make things feel flat. They feel he serializes things to be published in a pulp publication.
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Some readers did not like how the story being told was not very believeable and that the story has potential but is wasted by someone like L’Amour. His ability to describe in detail also allows the reader to experience what life must have been like back in those tough times. L’Amour nails the descriptions of the landscapes and trees and trails and things that really complete the atmosphere being described here. There was great quality in the narration of the novel, and L’Amour was an author who could tell a great story with great writing throughout. Readers found themselves rooting for Barnabas as he struggles and fights to make a life for himself and get settled. He must be able to get past the dangerous unknown found in America and the pirates on the way to America before he can set down roots.įans of the novel found that the story was more than just a western, but actually told a profound story about coming to America and settling here and telling of life in England during the seventeenth century.
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Barnabas heads to the New World to see what life he can make for himself there, due to the fact that he has been called an outlaw in England. Barnabas Sackett has inherited the ability to fight, justice, and temper all from his father (Ivo) a man who was a feared man when it came to fighting. “Sackett’s Land” is the first book of the “Sackett” series.
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In some novels L’Amour wrote, there are even relatives, either close or distant, of the Sackett family proving that the family was huge and related to just about everyone in L’Amour’s writing. These include Tyrel and Orrin and William Tell Sackett.īesides starring in their own series, the Sackett family is featured in other L’Amour novels and some short stories that they are the stars of. Probably the most remembered of the Sackett clans, is the Smoky Mountain Sacketts from which some beloved characters come from. A fourth, that are rarely talked about in the books, are known as Flatland Sacketts. From here, you get the three different clans of Sacketts that come from Barnabas and Abigail’s sons: Cumberland Gap Sacketts, Clinch Mountain Sacketts, and Smoky Mountain Sacketts. The patriarch of the Sackett clan, Barnabas Sackett (who becomes a merchant captain) and with his wife (Abigail) builds a life on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee, where they have kids. The Sacketts originally come from The Fens of Cambridgeshire in East Anglia.
#The eternal frontier by louis l'amour summary series#
The series is made up of both novels and short stories. The novels are a series of westerns, also called frontier stories that were written by Louis L’Amour there are also novels in this series that are considered historical novels. The “Sackett” novels cover more than three centuries of ground, historically.
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Because of this, the series is very much the family history of the Sackett clan, as it traces the family moving from England to America, and then as the clan moves west. The “Sackett” series is told in the first person and is narrated by different members of the Sackett family.