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Mojave Crossing

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Copyright © 1964 by Bantam Books, Inc.
1964
Western
2024
1 time
Mojave Desert (Calif.) - Fiction
Sackett family (Fictitious characters) - Fiction
Western stories
10 chapters
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When I saw that black-eyed woman a-looking at me I wished I had a bible.
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But it was kid of dark back of the schoolhouse that night, and I never could tell those Trewlawney girls apart.
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It worried me that those men had come up on me from out of nowhere.  Somebod in the lot of them was a tracker, or a shrewd one at judging what a man had in mind, and it left me uncertain of what to do.  Having a woman with me complicated matters... or would if I let it.

Whatever they'd had in mind to start off with, it was a shooting matter now.  There were three men down, and it was likely all three were dead, or hurting something fierce, and it wasn't likely the others would pull off and forget it.

Until now I'd been lucky - unlucky that they found us at all, but lucky in that I got off scot-free and didn't catch lead myself.  Nor the woman or horses.

There was only one thing I could see to do, and that was to make them so miserable trying to catch us that they'd quit... if they had quit in them, which I doubted.  So far it had cost them, but it was up to me to make it cost them more.

We crossed over the Bristol Mountains and headed due south for a pass in the Sheep Holes, thirty-five or forty miles off, with not a drop of water anywhere between.

On the horizon, not far ahead of us, loomed the black cone of a volcanic crater, and the black of a lava field.  Beyond lay a wide dry lake, and I pointed our horses right at the spot where lava and dry lake joined, and we rode on.

After a while, when we looked back, the notch in the mountains through which we had come was gone, vanished, behind a shoulder of the mountain.  There was no sound, there was no movement but our own, and the tiny puffs of white dust that lifted from the face of the playa as our horses walked.

Behind us were shimmering heat waves, before us and around us the air wavered, and changed the looks of things.  Small rocks seemed to tower above the desert, and the sparse brush seemed to be trees.  Sweat streaked the flanks of our horses, dust rose around us.  We were in a lost world, shut out from all about us by distance and by the shimmering heat.

Far off, something more than twenty miles away, loomed a blue range of hills... the Sheep Hole Mountains.  Beyond them would be more desert and more mountains.

Would they follow us? Or, wiser than we were, mightn't they turn and ride right to Los Angeles, knowing we would come there?

Only, of course, they did not know.  We might go to San Diego, or we might ride back north and go to San Francisco, along the coast road.

Characters
Ben Mandrin
Dorinda Robiseau
Sandeman Dyer
Nolan Sackett - (Sackett Family)
Tell Sackett - (Sackett Family)

 

Added: 19-Jun-2022
Last Updated: 16-Jan-2025

Quotes

To have killed men is not a thing of which one can be proud.  A man uses a gun when necessary, and not too often, or carelessly.

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 01-Feb-1981
Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Feb-1981
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$2.50
Pages*:
150
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Once
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1)   1 Dec 2024 - 8 Dec 2024
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Internal ID:
2655
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-553-20075-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-553-20075-1
Printing:
22
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
John Hamilton - Photographer
Tell Sackett was packing thirty pounds of gold and no worries - until he got to the ferry at the Colorado.  Trouble found him there.  It looked like a black-eyed woman, pretty as a young filly, and a hundred times more set to buck any man.  It looked like a gang of hardcases, with other folks' gold.  And trouble looked like the other side of the rive - the hottest, driest, most brutal desert on the continent.

MOJAVE CROSSING
One of the 16 books in the magnificent Sacket series

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 120 million of his books in print around the world.
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Notes and Comments:
A Bantam Book / January 1964
2nd printing ... August 1968
3rd printing ... August 1968
4th printing ... June 1970
5th printing ... September 1970
New Bantam edition / April 1971
2nd printing ... June 1971
3rd printing ... October 1971
4th printing ... February 1972
5th printing ... July 1972
6th printing ... January 1973
7th printing ... August 1973
8th printing ... July 1974
9th printing ... December 1974
10th printing ... February 1976
11th printing ... February 1977
12th printing ... September 1977
13th printing ... April 1978
14th printing ... December 1978
15th printing ... January 1979
16th printing ... January 1979
17th printing ... May 1979
18th printing ... May 1980
19th printing ... June 1980
20th printing ... February 1981
Twenty-second printing based on the number line.

Copyright page lists LCCN as 64-10937
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01-Feb-1981
Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback

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