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Summary: Very interesting, informative and entertaining.
Review: This is good clean reading. The story inspires one to learn more about the early West and the pioneers that settled it while putting up with all its dangers.
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Summary: The Best
Review: 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.
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Summary: Fascinating tale of adventure
Review: 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.
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Summary: Jubal Sackett
Review: We have the paperback in our home. It is one of the best books about the frontier, that I do like. It has alot of action and you are always wondering what will happen next. Mr. L'Amour made the characters so real. You feel as though you are with them and It does help to know the family history of the Sacketts.
I didn't grow up reading his books, but I'm glad to say that my kids love them as much as my husband and I do.
Thanks for keeping them coming.
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Summary: Fantastic book!
Review: 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.
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