Nothing Better Than Louis L'amour

Lonely On The Mountain (1980)
Louis L'Amour
Fiction
9/10 Little Violent

The Sackett boys always help each other out. When Tell Sackett got a letter from his cousin Logan saying that he needed Tell to bring him cattle Tell immediately starting planning out how he was going to do it. He had a few problems to worry about such as; He was in the Midwest and Logan was in Washington, he had a long way to go and not a lot of help. Also, from the Dakotas to Washington was Indian country and they were not very friendly to outsiders. Tell and his brothers Tyrel and Orrin run into more than their share of problems on their way.

The theme of this book is probably staying true to word and working as a team. These boys have a lot of problems but they push through and do their best to finish what they started.

Lonely On The Mountain is an action book. There are fight scenes and things like that. L'Amour uses first person in this book to tell how this story unfolds. In the beginning he bounces back and forth from Tell being the Narrator and Orrin. It is interesting to see how they think while they are apart. L'Amour is a Western adventure writer. He writes about things we think of when we hear the word Western.

This story is intended for males of all ages. My dad and Grandfather both suggested it to me. They both liked it as I did. It is not for people that do not like violence or Western "lingo."

I would recommend this book. I really liked it as did everybody that I know who has read it. It was a quick read for me but I liked it quite a bit. Robert S. Clay Jr. believes that "Louis L'Amour breathes new life into the familiar elements of the Western story. The Sackett tales stress family solidarity in the face of adversity. In addition, there is L'Amour's typical emphasis on the freedom of the big sky country and the lure of distant trails." Daniel R. Baker says: "Why does Logan Sackett need a herd of beeves by winter? His kinfolk Tell and Tyrel Sackett don't know, but they will cross high water and everything else that gets in their way to get the herd to him. And Orrin is on his way, too."