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Galloway

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Copyright © 1970 by Bantam Books, Inc.
1970
Western
2025
1 time
28 chapters
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The old elk walked up the knoll where the long wind blew.
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But it was worth it because when I opened my eyes, Meg was there.
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For just awhile I lay there shivering in the cold.  It was in that last hour before dawn, judging by the few stars I could see.  My muscles were stiff and sore, and my feet hurt.  I pulled myself painfully to a sitting position and took a slow look around my little island.

The only sound was the rustle of falling water, just loud enough to make it hard to hear anything else that might be stirring around.  And then, far off over the mountains, I heard the deep rumble of thunder.

The last thing I wanted right now was a rain storm, me without any clothes, and cold as all get out.  Worst of all, I seemed to be trapped in this place and from the looks of the cave walls around me the water in here sometimes rose several feet higher than I could stand.  It didn't even have to rain right here to make trouble for me.  The water coming down that waterfall I could hear would pour into this basin.

Time to time in my life I'd come up against trouble, but this here seemed about the worst.  And my strength was drained by the poor food I'd had, and the beating I'd taken from both the Indians and the wilderness.  I'd been bad off before, but at least I'd been out on solid ground where I could travel and maybe rustle a bite to eat.  I'd gotten away from the Indians but I'd jumped right into a trap.

Thunder growled deep in the far-off canyons, and I turned my head and began a slow, inch-by-inch check of this place in which I was trapped.

I was on that small bit of sandy beach against the back wall of an overhang that seemed to be of solid rock.  From where I sat I could see no break in the wall of the bowl into which I'd jumped, although as water poured into the basin, there must be a way for it to get out.

Finally, I slipped off into the water.  Once in the water I was warmer than on the beach, and slowly I swam out into the open air.  The rocky edge above me was only a rough six feet above the water, but the wall was sheer, polished by water and worn smooth.  Here and there were cracks in the walls, but they were vertical, and there was no way I could see that I could hang on until I could catch hold with the other hand.

The largest one started a good four feet up the wall, and although I jumped a couple of times from the water my fingers wouldn't hold in the slippery crack, so I swam back and stretched out on the sand, just about all in.

Twice more I swam around that pool, trying to find a way out, but my only chance was that crack.  Each time I went back to the beach I rested a little longer, for the days of scant food and struggling to cross the country and stay alive had about worn me out.  Still, I always told myself, there was nothing a man couldn't get out of if he was sober and didn't panic, so I settled down to think.

The water I'd heard falling wasn't much of a fall, but the rock over which it fell was higher than the place from which I'd jumped, and the rocks were worn smooth.

It began to rain.

Characters
Flagan Sackett - (Sackett Family)
Galloway Sackett - (Sackett Family)
Logan Sackett - (Sackett Family)
Parmalee Sackett - (Sackett Family)
Charlie Farnum
Nick Shadow
John Rossiter
Maighdlin Rossiter
Pat Berglund
Tim McCluer
Abel Dunn
Alf Dunn
Curly Dunn
Jobe Dunn
Pete Dunn
Rocker Dunn
Ollie Hammer
Quantrill
Tin-Cup Hone
Vern Huddy
Johnny Kyme
Lute Pitcher

 

Added: 19-Jun-2022
Last Updated: 13-Mar-2025

Quotes

How much can a man endure?  How long could a man continue?  These things I asked myself, for I am a questioning man, yet even as I asked the answers were there before me.  If he be a man indeed, he must always go on, he must always endure.  Death is an end to torture, to struggle, to suffering, but it is also an end to warmth, light, the beauty of a running horse, the smell of damp leaves, of gunpowder, the walk of a woman when she knows someone watches... these things, too, are gone.

Galloway
Louis L'Amour
Flagan Sackett
There's a saying that when guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns.

Galloway
Louis L'Amour
Flagan Sackett
Now I hold by the Good Book, but in some ways I am closer to the Old Testament than the New.  I believe in forgiving one's enemies, but keep your hand on your gun while you do it, mentally, at least.  Because while you are forgiving him he may be studying ways to get at you.

Galloway
Louis L'Amour
Flagan Sackett
A man who starts imagining that others think good because he does is simply out of his mind.

Galloway
Louis L'Amour
Flagan Sackett
We don't have so many words as you... so we have to make those we have stand up and do tricks.  I never figured language was any stone-cold thing anyway.  Its to provide meaning, to tell other folks what you have in mind, and there's no reason why if a man is short a word he can't invent one.  When we speak of beans that have been shelled out of the pod we call 'em shuck-beans, because they've been shucked.  It's simple, if you look at it.

Galloway
Louis L'Amour
Flagan Sackett

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 01-May-1981
Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-May-1981
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$2.50
Pages*:
156
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Once
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1)   23 Feb 2025 - 1 Mar 2025
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Internal ID:
2680
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-553-22629-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-553-22629-4
Printing:
21
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
John Hamilton - Photographer
"SASKETTS DON'T DIE EASY."


Galloway was thinking of Flagan.  Somewhere in those mountains, without weapons, in a rugged country where the only humans he found were apt to be enemies, he would have to fight for his life alone.  Galloway knew that Flagan must do to survive because he knew what he would do.  And there was no 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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Notes and Comments:
A Bantam Book / July 1970
2nd printing ... August 1970
3rd printing ... September 1971
4th printing ... January 1973
5th printing ... May 1974
6th printing ... September 1974
7th printing ... March 1975
8th printing ... July 1975
9th printing ... March 1976
10th printing ... January 1976
11th printing ... August 1977
12th printing ... April 1978
13th printing ... August 1978
14th printing ... January 1979
15th printing ... January 1979
16th printing ... January 1979
17th printing ... May 1979
18th printing ... June 1980
19th printing ... May 1981
Twenty-first printing based on the number line

ISBN: 0-553-20273-1 inside the book doesn't match the one on the back cover
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01-May-1981
Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback

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