The Daybreakers (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis L'Amour
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure, Western fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Cattle, Love or romance, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, West, U.S., Brothers, New Mexico, Outlaws, Law enforcement
- Locales: New Mexico
The Daybreakers was the first of the seventeen Sackett novels L’Amour published, and it remains one of the best. In it he allows Tyrel Sackett, age eighteen in 1866 when the story begins, to narrate his own adventures in his own, intermittently folksy way. In Tennessee, Tye kills a man who was trying to shoot his unarmed brother Orrin, and the two Sacketts evade the law (typically thickheaded here) by heading west—for Abilene, Kansas, and then Santa Fe (in the New Mexico Territory).
Between dangerous cattle drives and much derring-do, the brothers fall in love—Orrin...
[The entire page is 638 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
See Also
