Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Daybreakers
    Unavailable
    The Daybreakers
    Unavailable
    The Daybreakers
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Daybreakers

    Written by Louis L'Amour

    Narrated by David Strathairn

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    Tyrel Sackett was born to trouble, but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a place where people could raise their children in peace. Orrin brought law and order from Santa Fe to Montana, and his brother Tye backed him up every step of the way. Till the day the job was done, Tye Sackett was the fastest gun alive.


    From the Paperback edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 10, 2000
    ISBN9780553753196
    Unavailable
    The Daybreakers

    More audiobooks from Louis L'amour

    Related to The Daybreakers

    Related audiobooks

    Western Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Battle For The Black Hills

      Jan 1, 2021

      The Battle For The Black Hills
      12 min read

    • Article

      A Familiar Face

      Jul 16, 2019

      The Vintage photograph [“Spinach Salad Days,” May] is of my father, Domingo L. Palomo, a farm worker. He was born in 1904 in San Luís Potosí, Mexico, and moved with his family to Zavala County in 1920, crossing at Piedras Negras. The family initially

      2 min read

    • Article

      Mary Sanchez: Before The BLM Movement There Was Emmett Till And The Man Who Tried To Bring Him Justice

      Mar 26, 2021

      More than 40 years before Black Lives Matter emerged as a movement, Alvin Sykes was doggedly questioning police brutality in cases famous, and not. Sykes convinced the federal government to reopen unsolved 50-year-old civil rights era murders, scores

      4 min read

    • Article

      Palestine

      Dec 24, 2020

      Palestine is a town that knows how to celebrate spring. Nature-lovers flock here for the annual Texas Dogwood Trails Celebration, an 83-year tradition that showcases the trees’ delicate white blossoms. Founded in 1846, Palestine grew as an agricultur

      2 min read

    • Article

      TEXANA Making Space

      Jul 18, 2023

      TEXANA Making Space
      5 min read

    • Article

      Long Quest For Revenge

      Jul 24, 2018

      Long Quest For Revenge
      11 min read

    • Article

      Oil and Water

      Jun 1, 2017

      Oil and Water
      5 min read

    • Article

      No Peace For Old Men

      Mar 26, 2019

      No Peace For Old Men
      12 min read

    • Article

      Magic Valley

      Nov 27, 2018

      Although I am 90 and retired from writing many years ago, I have maintained interest in your excellent coverage of America’s Wild West. Your August 2018 issue aroused my interest as no other issue has, because my father’s family lived through those r

      3 min read

    • Article

      Kofi Annan

      Sep 3, 2018

      KOFI ANNAN’S DEEP WELL OF GRACE, HUFILITY AND CALF energy set him apart. Such was his seemingly boundless vigor and the gravitas he exuded, that his death, at the age of 80 on Aug. 18, shocked all who knew and loved him. A career diplomat originally

      1 min read

    • Article

      'The Woman's Hour' Wonderfully Recalls The Furious Fight To Ratify The Nineteenth Amendment

      Mar 14, 2018

      This year, more than 400 women are considered likely candidates for US Congress, while another 79 are exploring runs for state governorships as of the beginning of this year. It’s a grass-roots movement also known as “the pink wave,” and some America

      3 min read

    • Article

      Generation Of Change

      Jul 3, 2019

      Generation Of Change
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Details Are Unprintable

      Apr 6, 2021

      The Details Are Unprintable
      5 min read

    • Article

      His Name Was Emmett Till

      Jul 22, 2021

      His Name Was Emmett Till
      26 min read

    • Article

      What A Hate Crime Looks Like

      Mar 29, 2019

      Here's how you know a hate crime. The act leaves a stain, a wretched taint that festers and ferments through generations. It's a toxicity born from the hate. And no amount of criminal prosecution, spiritual cleansing or dramatic gestures of forgivene

      3 min read

    Reviews for The Daybreakers

    4/5

    186 ratings13 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Tye and Orrin Sackett head west from the Tennessee hills, to make their fortune as well as find a home for their ma. They have their share of trials with herding longhorns, fighting Utes, and standing up to lawless gunmen.This was the first published book about the Sackett family, and I think it’s one of the best. The situations are genuine, the characters are fleshed-out, real, and it was a great pleasure to spend time with them and their riding partners again for this reread.
    • 3/5
      Having never read L'Amour before, I wasn't sure how I was going to take to him. I grew up on the American TV Western, loved Lonesome Dove, and Robert B. Parker's various forays into the Old West, and Mary Doria Russell's Doc, but I expected L'Amour to be more "pulpy", y'know? The kind of stuff teenaged boys read before there was James Bond and Star Trek? Wellllll.....it is, and it really isn't.This is the story of two of the Sacketts--Orrin and his younger brother Tyrel (Tye), who leave their difficult existence in the Tennessee hills to go west in search of a piece of land where they can move their mother and brothers to live in better circumstances. Naturally, they run into the usual hardships and challenges along the way, but there were way fewer stereotypes than I feared; our hero's (that would be Tye) attitude toward women, Mexicans and Native Americans is nuanced enough. His moral compass is nearly faultless, although he does have to struggle with it--again, just enough. His ability to bounce back from encounters with flying lead stretches credulity pretty far. But, as with all the best genre fiction, the pages just seemed to turn themselves.
    • 3/5
      This is the first "Sackett" novel I have read in a long time and it turned out to be a re-read, and a quick one at that. But that is OK. The story is a good one, a story of two brothers who go west from the Tennessee hills to make something of themselves and find a home for "ma". By the end they are somewhere around Santa Fe. Really though it is the story of one Sackett, Tyrel, who tells us this story, which starts about 1867, as that year appears near the beginning. L'Amour lays things on a little too thick for me at times. And Tyrel seems to talk different than anyone else, with sight and mayhap being peculiar recurring affectations. "Two hundred dollars was a sight of money, those days, cash money being a shy thing." "Mayhap that was the moment when I changed from a boy into a man." Tyrel is more honest than Abe Lincoln and he may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but he seems to be able to avoid getting killed where most men would not. I like the overall story a lot, although the end is a little sad. I doubt westerns will ever be my 'go to' genre for entertainment, but they are fine for a read now and then.Some readers think that "show don't tell" is very important to a good story. I sit on the fence on that issue - sometimes telling is fine and serves a purpose. This novel however, for me mind you, is an example of excess telling. Normally it doesn't bother me but here it did. For example, we are told told told things about Tye's brother Orrin and we see scant few examples of what we are told. Orrin many times comes across as something of a big galoof making poor choices and not someone predestined to become the governor of New Mexico or whatever. Although this is Tye's story and his telling, this big buildup and supposed predestination of Orrin results in some sad consequences.
    • 5/5
      What a story! I read this decades ago when I was in high school; it was my introduction to Westerns. I loved it then and I love it now. In the Sackett series, this introduces my favorite Sacketts, Tyrel and Orrin (Tell is mentioned). This book has it all: Bad Guys (and Gal), Good Guys, Guys Who Choose Wrongly, and True Love. Since I moved to Texas and had the opportunity to see New Mexico, I can see how well L'Amour described the land. It was a different time with different attitudes and L'Amour makes the reader see that clearly.If you've never read a Western, then this is the perfect introduction to the genre. It is well worth reading.
    • 4/5
      This was a great book. It had the pacing for a multiple book series. While it was still predictable, I liked the feud that Tom Sunday presented, starting as a friend, then slowly souring until he's mean and dangerous. I liked that the Sacketts had finally made it went into the Rockies, and it was a more traditional cowboy story. Politics, friendships, adversaries, gun fights, and cattle driving.

      There were some oddities, like Tyrell and Orrin not getting their money out of the banks in the story from cattle they had sold. Not that it's really pertinent to the story, but it would ahem been nice to mention in passing at least

      I'm hoping there are other Tyrell Sackett stories in the series. There are some loose ends that need to be tied up.
    • 4/5
      Brothers Tyrell and Orrin Sackett head west to start a new life. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a place where people could raise their children in peace.
    • 5/5
      It has been a long time since I read any of the Sackett books but I have to say that I still enjoyed it as much as I ever did. I started reading L'Amour because he was a favorite of my dad and grandfather, but I kept reading them because they are such good stories. L'Amour has a gift of being able to describe a place or event so that you feel that you are there. This book is told in the first person by Tyrel Sackett, who at the beginning is eighteen years old. When he killed a man who was trying to kill his brother he decided it was time to go west and start a new life. His brother caught up with him and they got a job as cowboys. From there they decided to earn the money to start a ranch of their own that they can then bring their mom and younger brothers to. They have to deal with many things they had never experienced before, but they were quick learners and did quite well. Both realized that they needed an education. At that time many people were self taught, so once they learned to read they read everything they could get their hands on. I loved the way that L'Amour showed the reverence people had for books and how important reading became to them. I also loved the interactions among the various people and how it showed a terrific picture of the way life was in the old west. I really enjoyed Tyrel's shyness at first when he was getting to know Drusilla and how he was eventually able to overcome it. There was also plenty of action as he had to contend with rustlers, Indians, various outlaws and land grabbers. I really liked Tyrel's way of keeping his view of right and wrong and the way that he tried to come out on the good side. One of my favorite lines in the book is when Tyrel is talking about dealing with the folks who are causing trouble in town: "People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gambling, thieving and robbing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than outright violence, even when the violence may be cleansing."
    • 4/5
      This was given to me as reading material while i was in Halifax Hospital trying to get my heartbeat strfaightened out. I was pleasantgly surprised with the characterization and pacing of L'Amour's work, and now am eager to read some more of it.
    • 5/5
      The Sacket series is Louis LaMour at hi best! Books 1 and 2 in the series are my favorite, but this is a great read as well!
    • 2/5
      The recording kept breaking up. Strathwayne is the best of the L’mour readers
    • 3/5
      Another good Sackett novel.
    • 2/5
      A very ordinary cattle drive, redemption through violence novel. This is part of the "Sacketts" cycle, and is a very ordinary piece of L'Armour.
    • 4/5
      This is my favorite Sackett Story so far. The Daybreakers tells the story of Orrin and Tyrel Sackett who have to leave their home in Tennessee in a hurry, one step ahead of the sheriff, and head west. It is 1867 and their plan is too try and establish a ranch and then sent for their Mother and the rest of the clan.The two brothers travel across the west and have many adventures that include fighting Indians, rustlers and other assorted bad guys. They work hard to get ahead and also to improve themselves. Along the way they meet many interesting characters and some beautiful women, both of the good and bad types. Making the right life choices, and fighting for justice, this book lays the groundwork for the western Sackett stories to follow. This book makes me eager to read on and find out what happens to this family next. I found Tyrel particularly an enjoyable character, and although L’Amour relies on many of the same plot tricks to develop his stories, this was a fun read.