The Chronologies Of Louis L'Amour

This page is a fan page to honor one of my favorite authors. What I have attempted to do is take my favorites, which are the Sackett, Chantry and Talon novels and put them in chronological order. While the Sacketts are the best known, he had also planned to write 2 other series about the Chantry and Talon families. This chronology I use incorporates the one given in The Sackett Companion (a definite must-read for all fans). Then I inserted the Chantry and Talon novels where I saw them fitting in. In my chronology I put the stories in an order I feel more closely follows the actual timeline of what seems to happen, e.g., the events detailed in The Sackett Brand are referred to in several of the books before Mr. L’Amour places it. (I had people tell me to read that one first and without knowing the characters, I didn’t enjoy it much, so it may be that you will want to follow his chronology the first time you read the books to get to know the characters and later go back and re-read them in my order.)
I also believe there is one more Chantry novel about (I think) Borden’s brother Owen, but I don’t know the name of it. I couldn’t find it after searching so Ben will look around for it and I’ll add it to this list when i get a chance.

I met an old cowboy in New Mexico one time who had ridden up and down the entire Front Range of the Rocky Mountains and he told me that there was not a place mentioned in one of Louie’s books that didn’t exist. If he says there is a stream in a certain place, or a rock formation, or whatever, it is there or you can see that it was there.

Louis L’Amour’s Chronology

To The Far Blue Mountains	Barnabas Sackett	Late 1500's - Early 1600's	Sackett Family "Founder"
Sackett's Land	Barnabas Sackett	Early 1600's
Fair Blows The Wind	Tatton Chantry	Early 1600's	After Barnabas, Founder of the Chantry Family
The Warrior's Path	Kin Ring & Yance Sackett	1620's	Founders Of Clinch Mountain & Cumberland Gap 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
War Party	William Tell Sackett	Post Civil War	Colletion Of Short Stories, "Booty For A Badman" Features 19 year old Tell
The Daybreakers	Tyrell & Orrin Sackett	1870 - 1872	How the Sacketts came West
Sackett	William Tell Sackett	1874 - 1875	Introduces Tell
The First Fast Draw	Cullen Baker	Post Civil War	Not one of the 3, but this person is mentioned in passing in "Lando." Good Story, though.
Lando	Orlando Sackett	1873 - 1875
Mojave Crossing	Tell Sackett	1875 - 1879
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
Galloway	Galloway and Flagan Sackett	1875 - 1879
Treasure Mountain	Orrin & Tell	1875 - 1879	Includes the Tinker, refers to Colburn "Pa" Sackett
Lonely On The Mountain	Orrin, Tryrel, & Logan	1875 - 1879	Includes Cap Rountree
Ride The Dark Trail	Logan Sackett & Emily Sackett Talon	1875 - 1879	Includes Em's sons
The Sackett Brand	Tell	1875 - 1879	Includes 'most everybody
The Sky-Liners	Flagan & Galloway	1875 - 1879	A couple of famous cameo appearances
The Man From The Broken Hills	Milo Talon	1875 - 1879
Milo Talon		1875 - 1879
North To The Rails	Tom Chantry	1879 or later	Had never used a gun and didn't intend to

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