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The Sky-Liners

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Copyright © 1967 by Bantam Books, Inc.
1967
Western
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17 chapters
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Everybody in our part of the country knew of Black Fetchen, so folks just naturally stood aside when he rode into town with his kinfolk.
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But whatever was to come, our sons would be Sacketts, and they would do what had to be done whenever the call would come.
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There was a light rain falling when we went down to the restaurant for breakfast.  It was early, and not many folks were about at that hour.  The gray faces of the stores were darkened by the rain, and the dust was laid for a few hours at least.  A rider in a rain-wet slicker went by on the street, heading for the livery stable.  It was a quiet morning in Dodge.

We stopped at the dining-room door, studying the people inside before we entered, and we found a table in a corner where we could watch both doors.  Galloway had the rawhide thong slipped back off his six-shooter and so did I, but we were hunting no trouble.

Folks drifted in, mostly men.  They were cattlemen, cattle buyers, a scattering of ranch hands, and some of the business folks from the stores.  A few of them we already knew by sight, a trick that took only a few hours in Dodge.

There were half a dozen pretty salty characters in that room, too, but Dodge was full of them.  As far as that goes, nine-tenths of the adult males in Dodge had fought in the War Between the States or had fought Indians, and quite a few had taken a turn at buffalo hunting.  It was no place to come hunting unless you were hitched up to go all the way.

We ordered scrambled eggs and ham, something a body didn't find too much west of the Mississippi, where everything was beef and beans.  Both of us were wearing store-bought clothes and our guns were almost out of sight.  There was a rule about packing guns in town unless you were riding out right off, but the law in Dodge was lenient except when the herds were coining up the trail, and this was an off season for that.  Evan Hawkes had been almost the only one up the trail right at that time.

Nowhere was there any sign of the Fetchen crowd, nor of Judith.

"You don't suppose they pulled out?" Galloway asked.

"'Tisn't likely."

Several people glanced over at us, for there were no secrets in Dodge, and by now everybody in town would know who we were and why we were in town; and they would also know the Fetchen crowd.

It was likely that Earp had figured out the shooting by this time, but as had been said, Tory was armed and it was a fair shooting, except that he laid for me like that.  He'd tried to ambush me, and he got what was coming to him.  Dodge understood things like that.

We ate but our minds were not on our food, hungry as we were, for every moment we were expecting the Fetchens to show up.  They did not come, though.  The rain eased off, although the clouds remained heavy and it was easy enough to see that the storm was not over.  Water dripped from the eaves and from the signboards extending across the boardwalk in some places.

Characters
Galloway Sackett - (Sackett Family)
Flagan Sackett - (Sackett Family)
James Black Fetchen - (Fetchen Gang)
Tory Fetchen - (Fetchen Gang)
Colby Rafin - (Fetchen Gang)
Ira Landon - (Fetchen Gang)
Norton Vance - (Fetchen Gang)
Burr Fetchen - (Fetchen Gang)
Trent Burshill - (Fetchen Gang)
Russ Menard - (Fetchen Gang)
Clyde Fetchen - (Fetchen Gang)
Len Fetchen - (Fetchen Gang)
Fred Vaughn - (Fetchen Gang)
Reed Griffin - (Fetchen Gang)
Cap Roundtree
Laban Costello
Judith Costello
Tom Sharp
Dobie Wiles
Evan Hawkes
Harry Briggs
Ladder Walker
Larnie Cagle
Kyle Shore
Moss Reardon
Wyatt Earp
Bat Masterson
Chalk Beeson
Bob Wright
Doc Halliday

 

Added: 19-Jun-2022
Last Updated: 30-Jan-2025

Quotes

In a wide-open land like this where law was a local thing and no officer wanted to spread himself any further than his own district, a man could do just about what he was big enough to do, or that he was fast enough with a gun to do.  The only restraint there was on any man outside of the settled communities was his own moral outlook and the strength of the men with him.
A rustler, if caught in the act, was usually hung to the nearest tree.  Nobody had time to ride a hundred miles to a court house or to go back for the trial, and there were many officers who preferred it that way.
...it runs in the blood of a man that he should care for womenfolk.  It's a need in him, deep as motherhood to a woman, and it's a thing folks are likely to forget.  A man with nobody to care for is as lonesome as a lost hound dog, and as useless.  If he's to feel of an to himself, he's got to feel he's needed, feel he stands between somebody and any trouble.

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 01-Mar-1981
Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Cir 01-Mar-1981
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Mass Market Paperback
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188
Catalog ID:
23001-8
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ISBN:
0-553-20073-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-553-20073-7
Printing:
20
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
John Hamilton - Photographer
The Sackett boys weren't out to make a reputation - it just happened that way.  They had crossed Black Fletchen and lived to tell about it.  Now Fletchen was coming for them with the most expensive hired guns in the country.  But the Sacketts were no strangers to trouble.  They knew what guns were and how to use them, and one thing was sure - when the showdown came, the Sacketts would be ready, and someone was going to die.

THE SKY-LINERS
One of the 16 books in the magnificent Sackett series

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authenric 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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A Bantam Book / April 1967
2nd printing ... July 1967
3rd printing ... April 1968
4th printing ... February 1970
5th printing ... June 1970
New Bantam edition / June 1971
2nd printing ... September 1971
3rd printing ... January 1972
4th printing ... June 1972
5th printing ... October 1972
6th printing ... November 1973
7th printing ... September 1974
8th printing ... August 1975
9th printing ... November 1975
10th printing ... June 1977
11th printing ... January 1978
12th printing ... September 1978
13th printing ... December 1978
14th printing ... January 1979
15th printing ... May 1979
16th printing ... March 1980
17th printing ... June 1980
18th printing ... March 1981
Thirtieth printing based on the number line.
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Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback

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