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Jubal Sackett

Written by Louis L'Amour

Narrated by John Curless

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L'Amour's great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land.

Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It is she who will rule her people when their aging chief dies, but first she must vanquish her rival, the arrogant warrior Kapata. Sackett's quest will bring him danger from an implacable enemy . . . and show him a life-and a woman-worth dying for.


From the Paperback edition.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 26, 2005
ISBN9780739319062
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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Jubal heads west from North Carolina for the far blue mountains that fascinated his father, Barnabas. On his journey he meets friend and foe, and overcomes numerous physical obstacles. This was my first L'Amour read, and remains one of my favorites.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I believe if you are going to read only one of the Sackett tales by Louis L amour, this is the one to read. It takes place circa 1620. Jubal, a second generation Sackett in America, takes up his father's dream to see the far blue mountains and beyond. The adventure is bigger than life like all the Sacketts are, but is totally enjoyable and well worth the read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Hey! This book wasn't about gold! I'll be dipped!

    This book felt to me like an honest attempt at writing a fully featured story that was complex, full of plot and conflicts, romance, action, and adventure. Yet, it really fell flat. 338 pages of ... boredom. This was a hard read. It's a very, very, very, very slow burn. Really, it's a journal of Jubal Sackett and his trek across North America from the east coast to the Rockies.

    As typical with all Louis L'Amour, the story is highly predictable, exceptionally formulaic, and really, just not interesting. The worst part about this book, was a woolly mammoth battle with a bison at the end of the book (sorry, spoiler). This story is supposed to take place in 18th century America, yet woolly mammoths that were extinct 4,000 years prior, are roaming the Rockies. Oh brother.

    To be fair, however, some of the stories were engaging, and ultimately, that's what makes it a "good" book, rather than just "meh".
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This formed my love for Westerns. I grew up in the west and this fit with all my imaginings of how the west was formed. Loved the bravery and the "gentlemanly" behaviors of Jubal.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Repetitive becoming monotonous and boring. The authors memory wasn’t adequate to the task.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Each of Louis L'Amour's Sackett novels becomes my new favorite as I read along, but I'm starting to see a bit of a pattern forming of which I might tire. That pattern being that each novel is, in no small part, about its chosen Sackett's quest for a wife with whom to make more Sacketts to be waiting there to greet the rest of the white folks when they finally get around to settling the interior of the North American continent.

    So far, though, there is plenty of variety within that narrative, and Jubal Sackett has the most interesting twist on that basic plot, in that our man Jubal, the youngest son of dynastic founder Barnabas Sackett, really doesn't think he's looking for a wife when he takes off wandering, itching to see unknown lands and explore mountains farther west than those his father had once itched to explore. And explore he does, for a while, in the company of a native companion he picks up, a Kickapoo called Keokotah, who feels similarly ill at ease hanging around his own people -- he met and became fascinated by an Englishmen when he was just a lil' Kickapoo.

    Soon the pair encounter a Mississippi River tribe, the Natchez (often referred to, in this book, as "Natchee"), who are having a bit of a territory crisis, and also a crisis of leadership. Their chief is dying, their territory being encroached on by other, stronger tribes, and their medicine man has heard of the legendary Sackett family and what a bunch of stand-up guys they are, for white men, and would Jubal mind heading west to find their exploration party that was sent out a while ago to find a new place for them to live? Oh, and find their crown princess, Itchakomi, and ask her to come home and lead her people since the chief is dying and all?

    Well, Jubal and Keokotah were going that way, anyway, so why not?

    Oh, by the way, there's this half-breed Natchez jerk who thinks he's going to marry Itchakomi and take power among us, and like we said, he's really a jerk and we'd rather he didn't but it's really up to her whom she marries because she's that important and all. Anyway, he's probably going to be trying to hunt her down and he already doesn't like you because he's that guy over there that tried to pick a fight, mmmkay?

    Sure, whatever.

    Of course, we all know who is really going to get to marry Itchakomi, but it's still fun watching Jubal be the last one to realize it, especially since he spends most of the first half of the novel just trying to find her out in the great unknown and mostly unexplored wilds between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Which is really quite a vast territory in which to be trying to find anyone and anything. But duh, this is like no spoiler at all, he finds her. Just as his brother found Carrie and Diana in the Caribbean last novel. Just as Keokotah, from whom Jubal becomes separated when he chooses to seek out some caves (maybe Mammoth in Kentucky?*), still manages to find him even when Jubal is unexpectedly hampered and delayed from making their agreed rendezvous. These people are awfully, awfully good at finding each other, these Louis L'Amour characters. Like Dickensianly good. I find this hard to swallow at times, but, yannow, Romance.

    What really sold this book to me as my new favorite Sackett novel, though, is the scenery porn and attendant displays of survival skills in solitude Jubal constantly displays. To read Louis L'Amour (for me anyway) is to come to resent the year of one's birth; mine was a good 150 years too late**; I am forever deprived of the sight of the country through which Jubal travels as it was before it got covered in pavement and gas stations and tract housing and big box stores. L'Amour is a pretty good nature writer, and gives Jubal a unique and lyrical narrative voice that marks out his mystical, solitary character as very different from his brothers Yance and Kin-Ring, and from his father Barnabas.

    I have one pet peeve though, and it's both insignificant and hugely annoying. For no good reason except to make sure we know that Itchakomi digs Jubal, two-thirds of the way through the book we get a single chapter from her first person perspective. And it's all about her romantic dilemma of how to make him "see" her without sacrificing her pride or losing face. And then it's back to Jubal's narration for the rest of the novel. This seems a clumsy and amateurish thing to do in a book that otherwise flows so beautifully (and I assure you, willfully blind as Jubal is, there are plenty of hints for us readers to pick up to clue us in to Itchakomi's feelings. Really, we spend quite a bit of time watching Jubal's mental gymnastics and contortions via which he preserves his ignorance of the fact that he and Itchakomi are in lurve. It's quite amusing). I hope it's not a sign of things to come, I really do.

    But for now, I'm still on board, especially since the next novel, Ride the River, has my curiosity already; its protagonist is female. Can L'Amour handle that well? His silly Itchakomi chapter argues against the idea, but we'll see. We'll see.

    *Part of these novels is working out where our characters are, based on purely geographical clues; no modern names for anything are used in these novels. Thus the Mississippi is "the Great River" and the Rockies are "the Shining Mountains" but the more southerly part is already called the Sangre de Christos because the Spaniards who so named them are already there and using the name at the time of this novel.

    **Funny because, as mostly a science fiction fan, I'm more likely to grouse about being born 150 years too early. There's just no pleasing me, I guess.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This falls in the category of "historical fiction," but in all honesty, I did have trouble suspending disbelief in some parts. I wanted to believe, I tried to believe, and yet ...Still for the most part it is romping good fun. The fun far outweighed the "nooooo" moments. If you are a true fan of the Sacketts, this is a must read. People who like Westerns or historical fiction might like it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I think Louis L'amour meant to write a sequel because he left a major plot thread hanging at the end, but, of course, he ran out of time to write that sequel. Anyway, this is a well-written novel with plenty of drive and suspense. Jubal is a bit oblivious to the obvious when it comes to women, but that is common with Louis L'amour characters. However, it is an engaging story.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This is the ancestor myth for L'Armour's popular family linked series. It has elements linking it with the novels of Kenneth Roberts and Norman Edmonds.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It was fun and entertaining. Some of the problems he got himself into - such as breaking his leg in the middle of nowhere with nobody around - while perhaps a bit mindstretching, were also examplary of the problems frontiersmen actually had.This volume was much more entertaining than Ride the River or Lando were.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Jubal Sackett by Louis L’Amour is part of the continuing saga of the Sackett Family. This story is set in the 1700’s and follows the adventures of Jubal, third son of the original Sackett to come to America.Although his brothers were content to settle down and raise families on their original home site in North Carolina, Jubal is a wanderer. He vows to follow his dreams and heads west. Along the way he explores much virgin territory, meets with various people, finds a travelling companion and a beautiful Indian woman to love. This book required a large stretch of imagination as the events become more and more unbelievable. By the end of the book we have Jubal fighting a mammoth that should have been extinct centuries before. I managed to finish the book, but it will remain one of my least favorite of this series so far. With the territory that Jubal covered, this could have been an excellent adventure story instead of such a disappointment.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I couldn't wait each day to get back to this thrilling tale of survival and discovery. Jubal Sackett tells his story, a tale of discovering the beauty of the land that would become the United States and facing up to it's dangers. Going west from his family's settlement he leaves the colonies behind and soon his only associates are the Native Americans and occasional Spanish soldiers he encounters. He befriends a Kickapoo warrior, and is sent on a quest to find another Indian--this one an Indian Princess, a 'Son'. She will change his life in ways he never imagined, but then he never imagined taming a buffalo and any of the other adventures he relates. He also makes enemies of both a formidable Indian foe and a Spaniard, both of which will take all his skill to defeat. This yarn gets very unbelievable in places, but the enjoyment is in seeing how a resourceful man can win against insurmountable odds. Listen to this fine tale if you like man vs. nature stories, westerns, or just good old fashioned adventure stories. 
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Third (or is it fourth?) in the Sackett series, this book follows Jubal, the youngest son of Barnabas Sackett, west to find his destiny. A longish story that could've done with cutting 30 pages or so of Jubal's repetitive naval gazing about his destiny amongst the mountains. Still, a good story in the line of Sacketts, and introduces some new characters into the saga.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book follows Barnabas Sackett's youngest son Jubal into the west. The setting is considerably earlier than most of L'Amour's mountain man epics. The native tribes are Kickapoo and Natchez, instead of Apache, Sioux, and Cheyenne. The wilderness is less touched by European influence except for the Spanish soldiers filtering up from the south. L'Amour's notes at the end even make the mammoth encounter feasible!