Treasure Mountain: A Novel (The Sacketts)

Almost all of louis Lamour novels are easy reading. They keep me interested and can lay the book down for a few days and start right back up where I have left it.The Sacketts are always an interesting series.

Tell Sackett is back in this book with Orrin Sackett, whose taste in women has definitely not improved. This book has an interesting quest to find out what happened to their father. Yes, gold does creep in, but it wasn't the main focus in my mind. And there is another of L'Amour's spunky female characters that I like.

The true love in this book is the land itself. From the canyons around the Red River and the Tucumcari Mountain, to the San Juan mountains, you can feel the love of the land and the freedom it represents.

Were there some less than plausible moments? Yes. But fiction is rarely about "normal" life as it would be boring for the most part. The point is that I really liked the book.

Who else would like it? People who enjoy Westerns or others who have followed the Sackett series.

I have a rather extensive collection of Louie L’Amour books and am adding to them all the time. This one was one of about twenty books given to me by a close friend. I like owning these books as I read them multiple times and it is nice to have then handy and not have to relay purely on the library.

This is the tale of two of the Sackett brothers who go in search of their long lost father, Pa Sackett. There trail leads them to New Orleans where there adventure actually begins and progress into the far west and they follow a twenty year mystery which involves a lost fortune in French gold stashed years ago.

Bad guys abound but new friends and allies are found and of course the fast guns and fast thinking of the Sackett brothers are constantly on display. Of course as with all books by this author, one of the most satisfying aspects of the story is the author’s ability to describe the country, towns, wilderness and people involved. Having extensively traveled most of the areas in which the Sackett saga takes place; book after book, I can attest to the fact that L’Amour is spot on with his descriptions and has the ability to take me back in times to when I did visit those areas...it is almost a nostalgic trip for me.

And did they find the fate of Pa and did they find the gold? Well, you just have to read this one for yourself.

Twenty years ago, Pa Sackett led an expedition into the Rocky Mountains to find gold. He never returned. That doesn't bother his boys, they figure if he's still alive he'll come home sooner or later. But Ma is getting along in years and she would dearly like to know whatever became of her husband. Being the good sons they are, Tell and Orrin agree to strike out and see what they can discover.

The trail begins in New Orleans, where the only survivor of Pa Sackett's expedition still resides. He's not very talkative on the subject, however. In fact, it seems like he might be trying to hide something. The Sackett boys find plenty of adventure in the Big Easy, but eventually get the information they need and head out for Colorado. On the trail they find friends, Indians, hired guns, and horse thieves. Everything you might expect in a western audiobook. Nothing will deter them from finding Pa's trail though, not to mention the now legendary stash of gold he went to find.

Louis L'Amour struck gold with Treasure Mountain! Sorry, I couldn't resist. Did I call L'Amour simple? My mistake. His attention to detail is right on the mark. I would have sworn that he actually lived in this period but the dates don't quite match up. Most interesting to me in Treasure Mountain was the character of Judas Priest. I was never a fan of the band; is this where they got the name? Seems likely.

I love the language of Louis L'Amour's books. Treasure Mountain is rife with old chestnuts like "licked-to-be-swallered", and "Sunday-go-to-meetin'-clothes". Any audiobook that uses phrases like those is okay by me.

Treasure Mountain is my second Louis L'Amour audiobook. Both were from the Sackett series and both were narrated by David Strathairn. I like that kind of consistency in audiobooks, and the more I listen to Strathairn, the more I like him. He has kind of a relaxed style, not quite a drawl but close enough. He fits L'Amour's books very well.

Lovers of westerns will no doubt enjoy Treasure Mountain, but Louis L'amour's stories are just plain entertaining and I think anyone would enjoy this. Trust me on this, if you only read from one particular genre, you're missing out on a lot of good books. Give it a try, or take a look at one of my other Sackett audiobook reviews from the list below.

Another fine Western that will keep you flipping pages chasing the actions ad following the adventure as the Sacketts track down what happened to their Pa and the hidden gold of French Legionnairres who had the land before the Louisiana Purchase. Don't lay the book down because if you lose your place you'll regret the time loss from this rip-roaring story.

There's nothing like a Louis L'Amour novel. They may be formulaic celebrations of rugged individualism, but L'Amour was a master storyteller and his descriptions of the West are marvelous. I pick one up every year or so and each one is fun to read. Treasure Mountain, part of the Sackett saga, lived up to my expectations.

Treasure Mountain by Louis L'Amour is easily the best western I have ever read. It is a very adventurous story and has much suspense to it. Treasure Mountain is a story about two brothers who set out to search for the reamains of their father. He went on a journey twenty years earlier and never returned. These boys felt it their responsibility to find out what happened to their father.
On their journey to uncover the mystery they have many encounters with different people which causes some problems. In this book it shows the love of a family and how a family works together. It'ds hard to put this book down because you don't want to be left hanging.
I would recommend this book to anyone who loves mysteries and suspense. If you want that excitement while reading I would recommend that you read Treasure Mountain by Louis L'Amour. I'm not a big western fan but I absolutely loved this book.

With nearly 200 hours we prefer the good stories and insight to the television and so my wife and I look forward to the new tapes as they become available. His writing style leaves us able to recognize landmarks in our southwestern travels.
William Tel is one of my favorite L.L. charactors, so when he travels to Louisiana to find his missing brother Orin the reader is in for a great story. The listener will come to realise that no one messes with "family."
I admittedly perfer the longer books which enable the listener to become more involved with the charactors. None of the books will dissapoint.

Tell Sackett is back in this book with Orrin Sackett, whose taste in women has definitely not improved. This book has an interesting quest to find out what happened to their father. Yes, gold does creep in, but it wasn't the main focus in my mind. And there is another of L'Amour's spunky female characters that I like.

The true love in this book is the land itself. From the canyons around the Red River and the Tucumcari Mountain, to the San Juan mountains, you can feel the love of the land and the freedom it represents.

Were there some less than plausible moments? Yes. But fiction is rarely about "normal" life as it would be boring for the most part. The point is that I really liked the book.

Who else would like it? People who enjoy Westerns or others who have followed the Sackett series.