{"id":5,"date":"2005-07-14T07:14:55","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2005-07-27T15:13:59","modified_gmt":"2005-07-27T20:13:59","slug":"louis-lamour-letter-on-sacketts-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2005\/07\/14\/louis-lamour-letter-on-sacketts-genealogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis L&#8217;Amour Letter on Sackett&#8217;s Genealogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever read or seen more than a handful of American Western novels and\/or movies, there is a good chance you&#8217;ve come across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louislamour.com\/aboutlouis\/biography.htm\">Louis L&#8217;Amour<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHe wrote well over a dozen novels about a fictional family, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louislamour.com\/sackett\/\">the Sacketts<\/a>, that spanned hundreds of years, as well as several novels about their cousins.<\/p>\n<p>In 1981, he wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/freepages.books.rootsweb.com\/~teking\/sackett_docs\/L-Amour_letter.jpg\">letter<\/a> to Ruth Rawlings, detailing how he came up with the name, and that he&#8217;d actually done some genealogy research concerning the real-life Sacketts (he was not a Sackett himself).  The letter is hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/freepages.books.rootsweb.com\/~teking\/\">Sackett Family Association<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever read or seen more than a handful of American Western novels and\/or movies, there is a good chance you&#8217;ve come across Louis L&#8217;Amour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}