Treasure Mountain

by Louis L'amour

1988

Status

Available

Publication

Random House (1988)

Description

Fiction. Western. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:In Treasure Mountain, Louis L�??Amour delivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fate of their missing father�??and finding themselves in a struggle just to stay alive. Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father�??s disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwise Gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-create their father�??s last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep the brothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot on the trail�??a trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind . . . and a secret wor… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member velyrhorde

The Sackett boys track a twenty-year-old trail to satisfy their Ma. Orrin heads to New Orleans to discover what really happened to Pa, and runs into a deadly family who seems to know much more than they're telling. The trail leads West, of course, and involves gold and old betrayal. Orrin and Tell,

along with the Tinker and Judas Priest, whose father had also gone West with that fateful party, head out to find the truth. Along the way they tangle with kidnappers, dry-gulchers, backstabbers, and Trelawney girls. But a Sackett never quits.

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LibraryThing member MerryMary

Another good one. (Maybe I'm just partial to the Sacketts.) Orin and Tell team up with the Tinker and a black man named Judas Priest to follow a 20-year-old trail. They need to find out what happened to their father. He went west guiding a party from New Orleans and never returned. The trail may be

old, but the motives are still fresh and deadly, and someone wants to make sure the answers are never found.

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LibraryThing member DanielMH

Wiliam Sack and his brothers Tyrell and Orrin are trying to find out what happened to their dad as he left to search for gold. The family, including their mom, never knew what happened to their dad that long time ago. So the brothers decided to follow his track, the track of the treasure hunters...

LibraryThing member Pferdina

I was ready to not like this book, since I don't usually read Westerns. However, I found that I enjoyed it quite a bit, after the first chapter. The book starts in third-person, from Orrin Sackett's point of view, but most of the book is first-person, narrated by older brother Tell Sackett.

Beginning in New Orleans, the Sackett brothers track down what happened to their father on a treasure hunt 20 years earlier.

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LibraryThing member Jean_Sexton

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.

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LibraryThing member fuzzi

Sackett brothers Tell and Orrin head to New Orleans to follow the last trail of their missing father. Clues lead them back to New Mexico, and possibly an answer to a twenty-year mystery. Standard but enjoyable.

LibraryThing member zjakkelien

Enjoyable. Sometimes the descriptions included too many names of places I didn't know, but overall it had a good atmosphere. Ending was a bit quick.

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