Louis L. Amour's The Warriors Path Term Paper

PAGES
2
WORDS
619
Cite
Related Topics:

¶ … Warrior's Path" by Louis L'Amour The Warrior's Path by Louis L'Amour tells the story of a family named the Sacketts that traveled in the "wilderness" along what is referred to as the "warrior's path." The warrior's path is an old warpath that is characterized as treacherous and dangerous. The Sacketts were strong men wandering through wild forests and high mountains in an attempt to find peace out of the chaotic savage wild lands.

The Sackett family encountered many difficulties living such a life, including attacks from bears and not so friendly Indian tribes. The book is a classic colonial tail that reveals some of the hardships that the early settlers had moving out into the western wilderness. Along the journey, the Sacketts are threatened with attack from neighboring Indian tribes. Many white men in the book were also violent and ruthless, one particular party kidnapped a settler's daughter. This sets...

...

Diana Macklin is the kidnapped settlers daughter, and acts as the focal point for the frontier heroes in their journey down the old warpath.
One of the characters in the book stands out as a main character, Kin Sackett. He immediately takes a heroic stance, a stereotypical frontier "gentleman" and decides to risk his own life in order to do the right thing, save Diana Macklin from death at the hands of her captors.

Kin Sackett joined his brother Yance in a journey along the warrior's path to attempt a rescue of the kidnapped daughter. The Sacketts are represented in the book as men who don't mess around and take swift action when necessary to resolve issues. Yance and Kin as family are also representative of strongly bound friends and partners. The Warrior's Path is actually an old war trail that stretches from Chatanooga to Boston. Along the…

Sources Used in Documents:

REFERENCE: L'Amour, Louis. "The Warrior's Path."


Cite this Document:

"Louis L Amour's The Warriors Path" (2003, March 17) Retrieved May 1, 2024, from
https://www.paperdue.com/essay/louis-l-amour-the-warriors-path-145899

"Louis L Amour's The Warriors Path" 17 March 2003. Web.1 May. 2024. <
https://www.paperdue.com/essay/louis-l-amour-the-warriors-path-145899>

"Louis L Amour's The Warriors Path", 17 March 2003, Accessed.1 May. 2024,
https://www.paperdue.com/essay/louis-l-amour-the-warriors-path-145899

Related Documents

Bear Globally, there are eight bear species in the Family Ursidae (Order Carnivora), three of which are found in Canada: The Black bear, the brown bear and the polar bear. Black bear still occupy 85% of their historic Canadian range and 62% of the original North American range (Kolenosky and Strathearn 1987, Pelton 2000). In North America, black bears evolved as forest dwellers and most populations are currently stable or increasing (Brown,

On March 14, 2008, Bear's stock dropped nearly 40% in the first half-hour of trading, effectively tolling the death-knell of Bear's existence as an independent entity (Boyd 2008). Only a temporary loan from J.P. Morgan Chase and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York prevented Bear from going bankrupt immediately. Who was affected and what happened in the markets Both investors and employees were affected: "I worked eight years at a

Bear the True Meaning of
PAGES 4 WORDS 1268

Then they would break camp and go home," (217). When Old Ben was finally taken down, the hunters who had spent so long in pursuing him then had nothing left to contribute to their legend. Their purpose was completed, much like the South's long-gone glory days. Most of those who made up their party had little other talents than to track and hunt. The stray Mastiff, Lion, who "inferred not

" July, 1941 (p423) It is easy to see, even with the examples given from 1933-1941, the progression of the use of deleterious language, slang, phrases, descriptive terms, and the increased use of various media to project it. Klemperer asks himself why so many decent people he knew would all remark of Hitler: "You can't resist him." His conclusion is that National Socialism was a religion and its publicly staged spectacles, with

Polar Bear Habitat Powerful yet fragile; these words best describe the polar bear and the habitat where the bears reside. The polar bear is an animal of supreme beauty and power. Polar bears can kill swiftly with one powerful strike from their expansive paws. The inviting cuddly image of the polar bear hides the quiet power, of a fierce predator. Polar bears may be lost to the world forever if the

One of the eyes is cracked. The last room Karen checks is the kitchen. She is still holding and petting the teddy bear when she stops in front of the sink. She stares at the spot on the counter where the teddy bear had landed that time that Mark threw it across the room. The camera is behind Karen but as she turns around, it focuses on the back of