It's Louis L'Amour, how in the world can you not enjoy these novels. Each about 120 pages long, each similar in structure and following similar characters in their travails throughout the West.

Fun, quick easy reads. ( )

The Daybreakers: Tyrel Sackett (ugly one) with his older brother Orrin (pretty one); Tennessee to New Mexico; late 1860s, I think; love interests--Drusilla Alvarado (Tyrel), Mary Tripp (however, she is a classic case of the women in refrigerators syndrome) and Laura Pritts (Orrin); cattle drive, white squatters trying to take over Spanish land grant, Sacketts starting a new life; I believe this is where trusty sidekick Cap Rountree first appears

Sackett: William Tell Sackett (ugly one, oldest of the three brothers along with Orrin and Tyrel); Colorado; late 1860s again?; love interest--Ange Kerry; gold mine (hidden treasure!) and mining boom town; Cap Rountree again

Lando: Orlando Sackett, son of Falcon Sackett (cousin to the three brothers above); Tennessee to Texas to Mexico; 1869-1875; possible love interests--Virginia Locklear and Marsha Deckrow; cattle drive and treasure hunt (#2); the Tinker is the sidekick

Mojave Crossing: Tell Sackett again; Arizona and California via the Mojave Desert; possible love interest/bad guy--Dorinda Robiseau, though a letter from Ange Kerry appears at the end; desert survival, attempted hacienda takeover, stolen gold (to fund a supply run/business venture back to the Colorado mining town) and hidden treasure (#3); cameo by Nolan Sackett (some cousin from another branch of the family) ( )