With the publication of the first Sackett novel The Daybreakers, in 1960, L'Amour changed his focus from a single man on the frontier to families, especially brothers, working together to establish and maintain their communities. The Sackett novels now number eighteen, and L'Amour has created other families, including the Talons, Chantrys and, in The Shadow Riders, the Travens. L'Amour's concentration on the family reinforces traditional middle-class values and the growing concern with the state of the family in American society of.....
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