The Sacketts

The Sacketts is a 1979 American Western television film directed by Robert Totten and starring Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage, and Glenn Ford. Based on the novels The Daybreakers and Sackett by Louis LAmour, the film recounts the story of the Sackett brothers in 1869 who leave their Tennessee home and start a new life together in Santa Fe.

Having killed a man, Tyrel clears out of Tennessee and heads west. Following the funeral of Orrins fiance, his mother tells him to join Tyrel and find Tell, and to go start a life in the west. Meanwhile, Tell has found work in a mining camp in Uvalde, Texas. During a card game, Tell accuses one of the men, Wes Bigelow, of cheating and shoots him dead. The leader of the mining camp suggests that Tell should leave before the victims brothers arrive to seek revenge, and Tell heads out alone into the wilderness.On his way west, Tyrel meets with a cattle drive and signs on as a cowhand. He immediately becomes friends with aging cowhand Cap Rountree Ben Johnson, and former gunfighter Tom Sunday Glenn Ford, who becomes a mentor to Tyrel. Orrin catches up with the group and joins them. As they finish the drive in Abilene, Kansas, Cap, Tom, Orrin and Tyrel make plans to collect wild cattle near the Purgatoire River. While in the town, Orrin becomes attracted to the daughter of wealthy man Jonathan Pritts John Vernon, while Tyrel becomes attracted to the Drusilla Ana Alicia, the granddaughter of wealthy Mexican Don Luis Gilbert Roland. Don Luis and Pritts are arguing with each other over Luis land in Santa Fe, New Mexico. ........

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