Ride the River: The Sacketts

Holy crap! Why didn't anybody tell me L'Amour wrote a female protagonist?!? And did an incredible job with her PoV as well!! I'm sorry, I just can't get over this. I mean, Echo Sackett is nine kinds of awesome with extra kick-ass on top! L'Amour might not have pioneered the female action hero, but t......more

Goodreads characterizes this novel, set in 1840, as the fifth volume in the author's Sackett series. The fictional Sackett family, in L'Amour's writings, are descended from tough, larger-than-life Barnabas Sackett, who emigrated to America in the 1600s and settled on the frontier, and who laid down......more

"You? You're just a girl. What could you do in a fight?" At five foot two and 100 pounds soaking wet, there's not much that men think slim, pretty Echo Sackett can do. So, when she goes to collect an inheritance crooked lawyers, city slickers, and street toughs try to con her out of her money. And wh......more

Non-stop action and adventure set in 1840. A mountain girl from Tennessee comes to Philadelphia to collect an inheritance. She is hunted all the way back to Tennessee by ruthless murdering thieves. Stage coaches, wild horse rides, riverboats, canoes, and finally trekking through the mountains, she m......more

This was a fun little romp, but boy oh boy does L'Amour's style grate on me. And the romance was...well, you could see the girl falling in love, but the guy seemed pretty indifferent right up until he wasn't. Still, very exciting action, and I loved the main character--she was tough but feminine and......more