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Jubal Sackett: The Sacketts (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

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Wow! I really enjoyed this book. The character of Jubal Sackett was very well developed and set in a historically correct period. I found myself walking in his footsteps as he went further and further west. The story arouses the explorer instinct in all of us. I intend to read more of the Sackett sagas.

A very good story. I would have liked to know more of what happened before it ended. I found out that there are 3 books in the series that I needed to read before this one so I ordered them today. I would recommend this series to my friends and family.

I have yet to read many of his books, but I must say that all of Lamour's books are great. Jubal Sackett is a special character. I appreciate that Lamour spent more time on this book (or at least made it longer than usual) in order to give us a full scope of Jubal's transcending years in his migration to the west. The Sacketts are successful because they are well learned in many a trade and they don't take things for granted. They nurture their friendships when they can and comfront their enemies just as readily. You feel this story, you root for the characters and you feel as though you are among them. I guess this is more of a mountain man book than a western, but it still sets the setting for the Sackett's pushing west. A great book.

Jubal Sackett was always one of my top 5 favorite books because of it's humanly unimaginable whirlwind of words that puts you the closest to actually being there. I read the detailed 341 page book in only three days and after it was finished I felt as if I had just learned to speak a new language. It seems to be a sketch with words used as lines and the final picture is simply a detailed masterpiece of understanding human behavior.

This is the story of a young man who is sent Westward by his father to find a new home in the valley of the river named The Tennessee. Jubal travels by foot and is tracked by a Native American early in his journey. They become friends and decide to travel together. Through their growing friendship the reader learns of traditions and beliefs of a variety of tribes.

The narrative, written in first person, often has a poetic lilt that reminds me of "Evangeline."

"Endlessly wound the river along its timbered banks, brushing the roots of leaning trees, heavy with foliage. Dead trees, uprooted far upstream, were a danger to birchbark canoes, and at no time dared we to relax. Around each bend, and the twists and turns were many, might lie enemy Indians or some obstruction to rip our bottom out."

Native customs enrich the narrative. Describing Jubal's attempts to communicate with members of another tribe, L'Amour writes, "We had fumbled together a way of speaking. We knew some Cherokee...although Indians who knew the language of another tribe were rare..."

L'Amour's love of classical literature and books seeps into his writing like a vein of mineable golden prose, saturating it with abundant information on a myriad of subjects. It makes the history he writes far more interesting than it might have otherwise been.

This is the greatest novel I have ever read(and reread and reread and ...). Louis is arguably the best Western novelist there is. Of his works the Sackett stories have always been my favorites. Of these I love the first books. I can get more into the early frontiersmen books than any others. Just like cowboys of today feel they "should've been born a hundred years ago". I can imagine the cowboys of a hundred years ago felt the same. To be the first white man to see a new land, a land empty of anything but its native inhabitants. Some of which are friendly some of which are definitly not. To explore these unknown places for the first time would be an enormous priviledge from God. That is what this book is all about. I can not count the number of times I have read it and I enjoy it just as much every time. This is quite possibly my favorite book of all time. Any one who has not read this book is missing a great adventure sure to keep you pulling this book off the shelf over and over.

Louis L'amour has crossed the line, and written a western novel, that anyone who reads will love. The story of a proud, and determined American pioneer. I wasn't able to put the book down until finished. The surprise ending gives one last burst of excitement, just when you thought it was over. A must read.

The unabridged presentation of Louis L'Amour's Jubal Sackett will thrill listeners of Westerns: a wilderness explorer crosses a savage continent to become a legend among Indian tribes as a powerful medicine man. The story has many involving twists and turns.

This book is a favorite of mine. Most of this takes place in what is now the Wet Mountain Valley, specifically the Turkey Gulch area a little north of Westcliffe, CO. If you want to go traipsing around you unfortunately won't find Jubal's fort, but you will see how incredibly how accurate L'Amour is. Great story, great characters. I love this area of CO. It is one of my favorite places for hiking and hunting. No longer can one hunt buffalo, but the deer, the elk, the sage hens are still there. One of L'Amour's best.

Of the many novels Louis L'Amour wrote about the Sackett family, Jubal Sackett may be his best. The story is set in early America in the wild Rocky Mountain country--before the mountain men arrived. The story is addictive. I listened to the CDs at home, at the office, and in my car. It may also be the most creative and imaginative story that L'Amour every wrote. It is highly recommended.