Louis' Chronlogy

The chronology as Louis wrote it

This page is the chronology based on the book The Sackett Companion by Louis L'Amour himself. The book only covers the Sacketts, so obviously the rest is my own guesswork, based on having read and re-read the books.

Book Name	Main Character	Approx. Time	Description
Fair Blows The Wind	Tatton Chantry	1580's	Founder of the Chantry Family
Sackett's Land	Barnabas Sackett	Late 1500's - Early 1600's	Sackett Family "Founder"
To The Far Blue Mountains	Barnabas Sackett	Early 1600's	Sackett Family "Founder"
The Warrior's Path	Kin Ring & Yance Sackett	1620's	Founders Of Cumberland Gap (Kin Ring) & Clinch Mountain (Yance) Sacketts
Jubal Sackett	Jubal Sackett	1620's	Brother of Kin & Yance
Rivers West	Jean Talon	Early 1800's	Grandson or Great Grandson of The first Talon
The Ferguson Rifle	Ronan Chantry	Early 1800's	Ronan Chantry
Bendigo Shafter	Ethan Sackett	Approx 1835 - 1870	Ethan Sackett is a secondary character. Book Is about Bendigo Shafter
Ride The River	Echo Sackett	1840's	Includes some Clinch Mountain Sackett and Chantry folk
Over on the Dry Side	Owen Chantry	After 1860 and likely 1866	Owen Chantry
War Party	William Tell Sackett	Post Civil War	Collection Of Short Stories, "Booty For A Badman" Features 19 year old Tell
The Daybreakers	Tyrell & Orrin Sackett	1870 - 1872	How the Sacketts came West
Dark Canyon	Gaylord Riley	1870 - 1872	Tell Sackett has a very insignificant cameo appearance as a drifiting cowhand. I include this book for continuity's sake. Not a bad read, though.
End of the Drive	Tell Sackett	Post Civil War - 1870	Collection of short stories, "The Courting of Griselda" features Tell
Sackett	William Tell Sackett	1874 - 1875	Introduces Tell
The First Fast Draw	Cullen Baker	Post Civil War	Not one of the 3 families, but this person is mentioned in passing in "Lando." Good story, though, too.
Lando	Orlando Sackett	1873 - 1875	Excellent fight scenes. Mr. L'Amour was a boxer, too.
Mojave Crossing	Tell Sackett	1875 - 1879	Tell
Borden Chantry	Borden Chantry	late 1870's, possibly later	Unsure of the dating on this one.
Mustang Man	Nolan Sackett	1875 - 1879	First book about a Clinch Mountain Sackett descended from Yance
The Lonely Men	Tell Sackett	1875 - 1879	Includes Orrin's Wife
Galloway	Galloway and Flagan Sackett	1875 - 1879	Narrated by Flagan.
Treasure Mountain	Orrin & Tell	1875 - 1879	Includes the Tinker, refers to Colburn "Pa" Sackett.
Lonely On The Mountain	Tell, Orrin, Tryrel, & Logan	1875 - 1879	Includes Cap Rountree
Ride The Dark Trail	Logan Sackett & Emily Talon	1875 - 1879	Includes Em's sons, Milo and Barnabas.
Son of a Wanted Man	Tyrel Sackett & Borden Chantry	1875 - 1879 (ish)	Sackett and Chantry are secondary, but important characters. Story is about Mike Bastian.
The Sackett Brand	Tell Sackett	1875 - 1879	Includes 'most every Sackett in the West.
The Sky-Liners	Flagan & Galloway	1875 - 1879	A couple of cameo appearances by big names.
The Man From The Broken Hills	Milo Talon	1875 - 1879	Some backstory on the "Western" Talons.
Milo Talon	Milo Talon	1875 - 1879
North To The Rails	Tom Chantry	1879 or later	Had never used a gun on a person and didn't intend to.
Passin' Through	Milo Talon(?)	After 1879	The main character never gives his name except as "Passin' Through," and I had been convinced that he is a Sackett. I received an email from Paul saying he thought it was Milo Talon, who says in Chapt 26 that his name is Passing Through. Also, his mother is a Clinch-Mountain Sackett.

If you are looking to get into detailed discussions about some of these things I would highly, highly (did I say highly?) recommend The Discusion Forum at the official Louis L'Amour website. There is a lot of information there about Louis and the West in general.