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Mustang Man

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Copyright © 1966 by Bantam Books, Inc.
1966
Western
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When I came down off the cap rock riding a wind-broken bronc, half of New Mexico must have been trailin' behind me, all ready to shake out a loop for a hanging.
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And before we got to Santa Fe she was wishing it, too.
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My rifle was in the boot, and to reach for it would mean death.  My pistol, in its holster, was held down by the thong hooked over the hammer, a necessity when riding rough country.

So I rode straight for them, pointing the dun to ride right between two of them who rode some thirty yards apart, and singing as I rode.

Nobody ever figured a way to account for the thinking of an Indian.  They were curious as any wild animal, and at times as temperamental, but the thing they admired most was courage, because you needed courage to be a good Indian.  I knew I wouldn't get anywhere now trying to run; and when it comes to that, I am not a man who cares to run, unless it's toward something.

That dun pricked up his ears.  He knew we were in trouble, and he didn't like the smell of Indians; I could feel every muscle in him poised with eagerness to take out and run.

These braves weren't hunting me.  They were a war party all right, and they were out for bigger game.  But if they were fixing for trouble with me they were going to get it.  As I walked my horse toward them I made up my mind what to do.  The big Indian on the right was my meat.  If they made a hostile move I'd jump my horse into him, and grab for my pistol.  I went through the motions in my mind, and all the while I was singing about that girl I left in San Antone.

Behind me I could hear the riders closing in, and in front of me they had slowed their horses a little, but I kept right on riding.  My right hand was on my thigh, where it had been all along, only inches from the butt of my gun.  I knew that if I got my gun out before they killed me I wouldn't go alone.  If there was one thing I could do well in this world it was shoot a pistol.

Back in the Clinch Mountains in the fifties and sixties a boy just naturally cut his teeth on guns, and befor I was twelve years old I'd been out in the woods feeding the family with a rifle, and with little time for anything else.

My eyes held straight ahead, yet I was watching the Indian on either side of me.  There were a-plenty of others there, but it was those two who would bring on the trouble and they were coming closer and closer.  My spur was just caressing that bronc's flank, ready to nudge him into action.

Those Indians came right on and I rode right toward them.  Of a sudden the one on my left brought his lance down slowly, pointing it at me, but I never flinched.  Had I showed one sign of the scare that was in me, he'd have run me through, or tried it.

He put the point of that lance right against my chest, and I looked over it and right into his eyes.  I put my left hand up, still holding the reins, and pushed the point aside, just nice and easy, and then I walked my horse right on past.

 

Added: 19-Jun-2022
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 01-Dec-1981
Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Cir 01-Dec-1981
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168
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ISBN:
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ISBN-13:
978-0-553-20864-1
Printing:
21
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
John Hamilton - Photographer
IT WAS ALMOST
TOO MUCH FOR EVEN A
SACKETT TO HANDLE!


He could outride and outshoot any five men, but he was a fool for a lady in distress.  The posse was hot on his trail for murder when he took time out to rescue Sylvie from a gang of desperados.  It wasn't till she'd bushwhacked him with a shotgun, and tried to poison him that he realized she was up to no good.  And no sooner had he shot his way out of her clutches than he met Penelope.  After he'd heard her sad story, he should have cut and run, but somehow a Sackett never seems to learn the easy way.

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 110 million of his books in print around the world.
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A Bantam Book / May 1966
2nd printing ... April 1969
3rd printing ... May 1969
4th printing ... February 1970
5th printing ... September 1970
New Bantam edition June 1971
2nd printing ... October 1971
3rd printing ... April 1972
4th printing ... September 1972
5th printing ... August 1973
6th printing ... July 1974
7th printing ... October 1975
8th printing ... October 1975
9th printing ... April 1976
10th printing ... June 1976
11th printing ... June 1977
12th printing ... March 1978
13th printing ... January 1979
14th printing ... January 1979
15th printing ... December 1979
16th printing ... May 1980
17th printing ... July 1980
18th printing ... May 1981
19th printing ... December 1981
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