Sacketts 00 - The Sackett Companion (v5.0)

by Louis L'Amour

  Here could have been the beginning of geography. It may also have been the beginning of navigation.

  The hunter may have told of a hot spring he found, and of a hill where there were chips of flint, and this could have been the beginning of geology.

  No doubt at first the accounts were told in the stark details, brief and to the point, while the hunter took great bites from the fresh meat, but such storytelling would not satisfy. Then as now people love drama, excitement, and interesting detail.

  The bears or lions he killed would soon become larger and fiercer, the enemies stronger and better armed. To simply win a battle was not enough, there must be detail. “My spear went deep into the flesh near the left shoulder, and it died.” Here, perhaps, the beginning of anatomy.

  To embellish his stories the hunter and the warrior learned to add details, to describe the setting, to identify it by references to where certain edible plants have been found or where a kill was made, all of which made the stories more interesting to the listener.

  The children, as well as others, listening to the stories, learned not only how to hunt and fight but where water might be found, salt and wild rice or nuts might be. So was knowledge passed on to the children, and so was the story begun.

  We still, today, learn from stories, and the apt story of anecdote remains in the mind when details are forgotten.

  It has often been said that we have but one life to live; that is nonsense. If one reads fiction he or she can live a thousand lives, in many parts of the world or in outer space. One can cross a desert, climb the Himalayas, or experience the agony of defeat, the triumph of victory, the pangs of starvation, or the choking thirst of the desert, all while safely at home.

  The book has been man’s greatest triumph, his most profound success. Seated in my library I live in a Time Machine. In an instant I can be transmitted to any era of history, any part of the world, even to outer space. Often I am asked in what period of history I would have preferred to live, and I wonder that they do not see, for I have lived in them all. I have listened to Buddha speak, I have marched with Alexander, sailed with the Vikings, or in their double canoes with the Polynesians. I have been at the courts of Queen Elizabeth and Louis the XIV; I have explored the West with Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger; I have been a friend to Captain Nemo and have sailed with Captain Bligh on the Bounty. I have walked in the agora with Socrates and Plato, and listened to Jesus deliver the Sermon on the Mount.

  Above all, and the most remarkable thing, I can do it all again, at any moment. The books are there. I have only to reach up on the shelves and take them down and live over again the moments I have loved. Surely, we live today in the greatest moment of history, for at no other time have books been so readily available, in the book stores, in the public libraries, and in the home.

  FICTIONAL AND HISTORICAL CHARACTERS IN THE SACKETT NOVELS

  A

  Abel, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Abreu, Martin, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Achilles, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Acho Apache (people), JUBAL SACKETT

  Adams, John, RIDE THE RIVER

  Adapa, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Africans (people), THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Aiken, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Akicheeta, JUBAL SACKETT

  Alexander the Great, SACKETTS LAND

  Ali Baba, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Alicia, RIDE THE RIVER

  Allah, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Allen, Dodie, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Allen, Gabriel, MOJAVE CROSSING

  Allen, Skeeter, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Allen, Vancouter, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Alleyn, SACKETTS LAND

  Allison, SACKETT

  Allison, Clay, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Alvarado, Drusilla, THE DAYBREAKERS; SACKETT; TREASURE MOUNTAIN; THE SACKETT BRAND

  Alvarado, Luis, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Alvarado (family), THE LONELY MEN

  Americans (people), JUBAL SACKETT; THE DAYBREAKERS; THE LONELY MEN; LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Ananta (king of Kashmir), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Anderson, Bloody Bill, MOJAVE CROSSING

  Anderson, Curly, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Andrew, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Angles (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; JUBAL SACKETT

  Anglos (people), THE DAYBREAKERS

  Antoninus Pius, JUBAL SACKETT

  Apaches (people), JUBAL SACKETT; THE DAYBREAKERS; SACKETT; LANDO; MOJAVE CROSSING; MUSTANG MAN; THE LONELY MEN; GALLOWAY; TREASURE MOUNTAIN; RIDE THE DARK TRAIL; THE SACKETT BRAND

  Appleton (family), LANDO

  Ar the Silent, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Arabs (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; THE WARRIOR’S PATH; JUBAL SACKETT

  Arapahoes (people), THE DAYBREAKERS; SACKETT; MUSTANG MAN; GALLOWAY

  Archie, RIDE THE RIVER

  Aristotle, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Arnaud, GALLOWAY

  Arribas, Dolores, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Arthur (King of England), SACKETTS LAND

  Asatiki, JUBAL SACKETT

  Ashanti (people) THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Ashbrandson, Bjorn, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Asiatics (people), JUBAL SACKETT

  Atasha, JUBAL SACKETT

  Avicenna, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Ayllon, Lucas Vazquez, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Aztecs (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  B

  Babcock, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Baca, MUSTANG MAN

  Baca, Antonio, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Bacon, Francis, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Bainbride, William, SACKETT

  Baker, RIDE THE RIVER

  Baker, TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Baker, Bully Ben, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Baker, Cullen, LANDO; MUSTANG MAN

  Baker, Jim, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Bald Knobbers, LANDO; THE SKY-LINERS

  Baldwin, THE SKY-LINERS

  Baltimore (Lord), THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Baptiste, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Bardle, Nick, SACKETT’S LAND; TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Barres, TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Barthram, Doll, SACKETTS LAND

  Bashford, THE LONELY MEN

  Basques (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; THE DAYBREAKERS

  Baston, Andre, TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Baston, Fanny, TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Baston, Paul, TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Baston, Philip, TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Battles, John J., THE LONELY MEN

  Bauer, Max, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Beale, THE DAYBREAKERS; MOJAVE CROSSING

  Beeson, Chalk, THE SKY-LINERS

  Belden, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Belisarius, SACKETT’S LAND

  Benito, THE LONELY MEN

  Benson, Bully, RIDE THE RIVER

  Benton, Thomas Hart, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Benton (family), MUSTANG MAN

  Bents, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Berglund, Pat (“Swede”), GALLOWAY; TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Berkeley, John, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Bermudez, Juan de, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Berryman, SACKETT’S LAND

  Bett, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Bianco, Andrea, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Bienville, TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Bigelow, Benson, SACKETT

  Bigelow, Ira, SACKETT

  Bigelow, Tom, SACKETT

  Bigelow, Wes, SACKETT

  Bigelow (family), SACKETT

  Binny, Dorset, THE LONELY MEN; TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Birkbeck, RIDE THE RIVER

  Bishop, Noble, MUSTANG MAN

  Bishop, the, LANDO

  Black Knight, the, THE SKY-LINERS

  Blackfeet (people), THE DAYBREAKERS; LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN; THE SKY-LINERS

  Blackstone, William, THE DAYBREAKERS; SACKETT; TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Bland, Jeannie,
THE LONELY MEN

  Blaxton, William, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Blount, LANDO

  Blue, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Bob, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Bogardus, Rafe, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Boleyn, Anne, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Bonaparte (mule), LANDO

  Bontemps, Pierre, TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Boone, Daniel, RIDE THE RIVER

  Boone, James, RIDE THE RIVER

  Boudicca, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Boyd, Will, SACKETT

  Brady, Martin, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Brand, Isom, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Brannenberg, Dutch, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Breedlove, THE SKY-LINERS

  Brennan, Mary, RIDE THE RIVER

  Bretons (people), SACKETT’S LAND

  Bretons (people), SACKETT

  Brewer, Jim, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Bridger, Jim, THE DAYBREAKERS; TREASURE MOUNTAIN; THE SACKETT BRAND; THE SKY-LINERS

  Briggs, SACKETT

  Briggs, Harry, THE SKY-LINERS

  Briscoe, THE SACKETT BRAND

  British (people), THE WARRIOR’S PATH; RIDE THE RIVER

  Brock, Bill, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Brook, Harry, THE LONELY MEN

  Brooks, Al, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Brown, Caribou, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Brown, Kootenai, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Browne, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Brunn, Adam, RIDE THE RIVER

  Brunn (Adam’s widow), RIDE THE RIVER

  Bruno (dog), SACKETT’S LAND

  Brus, Robert de, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Bryan, THE SKY-LINERS

  Buchanan, Essie, RIDE THE RIVER

  Buck (horse), THE DAYBREAKERS

  Burbage, Cuthbert, SACKETT’S LAND

  Burbage, James, SACKETT’S LAND

  Burbage, Richard, SACKETT’S LAND

  Burke, Pimmerton, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Burns, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Burrough, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Burshill, Trent, THE SKY-LINERS

  Button, Charlie, MOJAVE CROSSING

  Button, Willie, MOJAVE CROSSING

  Butts, Ephraim, RIDE THE RIVER

  C

  Cabot, John, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Caddoans (people), JUBAL SACKETT

  Caffrey, Duncan, LANDO; TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Caffrey, Will, LANDO

  Caffrey (Mrs.), LANDO

  Cagle, Larnie, THE SKY-LINERS

  Cain, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Cajuns (people), TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Californians (people), MOJAVE CROSSING

  Campbell, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Canadians (people), LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Canton, TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Carboy, Tom, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Caribs (people), THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Carlisle, Bob, MOJAVE CROSSING

  Carney, Reed, THE DAYBREAKERS; MUSTANG MAN

  Carpenter, Jim, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Carson, Kit, THE DAYBREAKERS; SACKETT; TREASURE MOUNTAIN; THE SACKETT BRAND; THE SKY-LINERS

  Carthaginians (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; JUBAL SACKETT

  Cartwright, LANDO

  Case, THE LONELY MEN

  Catawbas (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; THE WARRIOR’S PATH; JUBAL SACKETT

  Cator, Jim, MUSTANG MAN

  Causie, Nathaniel, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Celts (people), SACKETT’S LAND; TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; JUBAL SACKETT; TREASURE MOUNTAIN; RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Chantry, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Chantry, Dorian, RIDE THE RIVER

  Chantry, Finian, RIDE THE RIVER

  Chapman, Joseph, MOJAVE CROSSING

  Charlemagne, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Charles, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Chemehuevis (people), MOJAVE CROSSING

  Cheng Ho, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Cheno, see Cortina, Juan Nepomuceno

  Cherokees (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; THE WARRIOR’S PATH; JUBAL SACKETT; RIDE THE RIVER; SACKETT; LANDO; THE LONELY MEN; GALLOWAY; TREASURE MOUNTAIN; RIDE THE DARK TRAIL; THE SACKETT BRAND

  Cheyennes (people), THE DAYBREAKERS; SACKETT; MUSTANG MAN; THE LONELY MEN; TREASURE MOUNTAIN; LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN; RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Chickasaws (people) TREASURE MOUNTAIN; RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Chinese (people), LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Chippewas (people), LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Choctaws (people), JUBAL SACKETT; TREASURE MOUNTAIN; RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Chowanokes (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Churchill, Clark, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Cisneros, Luis, THE LONELY MEN

  Claiborne, William, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Clark, Jim, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Clark, William, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Claw, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Clay, Cassius, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Clyde, Fiora, RIDE THE RIVER

  Clymer, MOJAVE CROSSING

  Cobbett, Sam, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Cochise, THE LONELY MEN

  Coe, William, MUSTANG MAN

  Coleus of Samos, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Coley (mule), RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Collins, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Colt, Sam, LANDO

  Columbus, Christopher, SACKETT’S LAND; TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Comancheros (people), MUSTANG MAN

  Comanches (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; THE DAYBREAKERS; SACKETT; MOJAVE CROSSING; MUSTANG MAN; GALLOWAY; TREASURE MOUNTAIN; THE SKY-LINERS

  see also Komantsi

  Cominazzo (family), JUBAL SACKETT

  Conchita, THE LONELY MEN

  Conejeros (people), JUBAL SACKETT

  Conn of the Hundred Battles, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Cook, Dave, THE SKY-LINERS

  Cookie, SACKETT

  Cookie, GALLOWAY

  Cornwallis, Charles, RIDE THE RIVER

  Corte-Real, Gaspar, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Cortes, Hernando, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Cortina, Juan Nepomuceno, LANDO

  Corvino, SACKETT’S LAND

  Costello, THE SKY-LINERS

  Costello, Judith, THE SKY-LINERS

  Costello, Laban, THE SKY-LINERS

  Cougar, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Coulter, John, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN; THE SACKETT BRAND

  Courtney, SACKETT’S LAND

  Crawford, Emmet, THE LONELY MEN

  Creed, Dan, THE LONELY MEN

  Creeks (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; JUBAL SACKETT; RIDE THE RIVER; TREASURE MOUNTAIN; RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Crees (people), LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Crocker, Barnabas, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Crockett, Davy, THE DAYBREAKERS; THE LONELY MEN

  Crook, George, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Croppie, Henry, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Cruz, Chico, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Cuchulainn, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  D

  Dalton, Michael, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Dammerill, THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Dancer, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Danes (people), SACKETT’S LAND; TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; JUBAL SACKETT

  Danny, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Dapple (horse), THE DAYBREAKERS

  D’Aquila, Juan, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAIN

  Darby, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Darkling, SACKETT’S LAND

  Dart, Isom, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  see also Huddleston, Ned

  Davis, Edmund Jackson, LANDO; MUSTANG MAN

  Davis, Jack, THE LONELY MEN

  Dawes, Ephraim, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Dayton, MOJAVE CROSSING

  de Bermudes, Juan, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  de Guzman, Diego, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  de Malebisse, Hugh, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; RIDE THE DARK
TRAIL

  De Pineda, Alvarez, JUBAL SACKETT

  De Soto, Hernando, SACKETT’S LAND; TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; JUBAL SACKETT

  de Valdez, Alonzo, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Dearborn, Henry, SACKETT; THE LONELY MEN

  Decatur, Stephen, SACKETT

  Deckrow, Franklyn, LANDO

  Deckrow, Lily Anne, LANDO

  Deckrow, Marsha, LANDO

  Delve, Jonathan, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Dickens, Charles, RIDE THE RIVER; THE DAYBREAKERS

  Dickey, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Dickinson, Charles, MUSTANG MAN

  Diego, JUBAL SACKETT

  Dillon, Chowse, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Doubleout Sam, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Dowell, Uncle Ben, THE SACKETT BRAND

  Drake, Francis, SACKETT’S LAND; TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Drennan, Emily, RIDE THE RIVER

  Drennan, Jimmy, RIDE THE RIVER

  Drennan, Laura, RIDE THE RIVER

  Drennan, Ralph, RIDE THE RIVER

  Druids (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  Duckett, Johannes, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Dumont, Gabriel, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Dunkirkers (people), SACKETT’S LAND

  Dunn, Abel, GALLOWAY

  Dunn, Alf, GALLOWAY

  Dunn, Bull, GALLOWAY

  Dunn, Curly, GALLOWAY

  Dunn, Jobe, GALLOWAY

  Dunn, Pete, GALLOWAY

  Dunn, Rocker, GALLOWAY

  Dunn (family), GALLOWAY

  Durango Kid, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Dutch (people), TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; JUBAL SACKETT

  Duval, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; THE WARRIOR’S PATH; LANDO

  Dwyer, Jim, THE DAYBREAKERS

  Dyer, Sandeman, MOJAVE CROSSING

  E

  Earl, see Robert (Sir)

  Earl of Southesk, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN

  Earp, Wyatt, MOJAVE CROSSING; THE SKY-LINERS

  Egyptians (people), THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Elder, THE LONELY MEN

  Elizabeth I (queen of England), SACKETT’S LAND; TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; THE WARRIOR’S PATH; JUBAL SACKETT

  Elmer, RIDE THE RIVER

  Emmden, TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

  English, Charlie, THE DAYBREAKERS

  English (people), SACKETT’S LAND; TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; THE WARRIOR’S PATH; JUBAL SACKETT; RIDE THE RIVER; SACKETT; LANDO; TREASURE MOUNTAIN; RIDE THE DARK TRAIL

  Eno (people), SACKETT’S LAND; TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS; THE WARRIOR’S PATH

  Enriquez, Roderigo, MOJAVE CROSSING

  Escalante, Francisco Silvestre Velez de (Father), SACKETT; GALLOWAY; TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  Essex, SACKETT’S LAND; TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS