The Sacketts: Volume 4: Galloway; The Sky-Liners; the Man from the Broken hills; Ride the Dark Trail

by Louis L'Amour

Dust jacket a little rough at edges. Book pages in great condition.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Westerns, Fiction

Hardcover

About the author

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and the Sackett series. L'Amour also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (The Haunted Mesa), non-fiction (Frontier), and poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films. His books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death, almost all of his 105 existing works (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) were still in print, and he was "one of the world's most popular writers".

Reviews

[Anne Patkau · Rating 4 out of 5]

From copyright page 1980 Bantam ISBNs
Galloway 1970 0553276751 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Sky-Liners 1967 0553276875 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Man from the Broken Hills 1975 0553276794 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Ride the Dark Trail 1972 0553276824 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Big bold brave Sackett man narrates response when clan calls for help. Smooth tongues, fast guns, hammer fists - whatever "gets the coon".
Galloway - Flagan runs naked from Apache torture, wolves, to ranch north of Shalako with brother Galloway and Nick Shadow. Logan and Parmalee help. Pretty Meg Rossiter flirts with Curly Dunn and hired assassin. Patriarch Bull gets what he wants with force, and keeps sending Dunns to kill and burn out every new settler. Bullying son Curly boasts too big.
The Sky-Liners - Flagan and Galloway try to save Judith Costello 16 from wanting to marry James Black Fetchen, who kills her grandpa Laban and gang hold pa hostage for Colorado horse-breeding ranch.
The Man from the Broken Hills - Milo Talon, narrator, knows Rossiter, blind seven years, was hand his ma Em née Sackett caught stealing cattle. Now Rossiter loses stock as do Balch, Saddler, and Major Timberley. Neighbors suspect each other. Pretty daughters Barby Ann Rossiter and Ann Timberley, and Baker half-sister Lisa cause trouble at box-lunch dance. Who is shooting to kill Milo, and why? Baker wants revenge for twin brother Em shot, sons of Rossiter. Baker kidnaps Ann. Milo stalks and saves.
Ride the Dark Trail - Logan 'Passing Through' helps Emily Talon née Sackett 67. Logan Sackett narrates defending widow Em Talon 67, born Sackett, clan who always help another. Alone on MT brand 'Empty' ranch, they must fight off her husband's killer Jake Tannen and his gang. Her sons Milo and Barnaby believe her long dead, land sold. Will they or other Sacketts get word in time?

[Rebecca Christie · Rating 4 out of 5]

reading the books from my dad... this is actually "The Sky-Liners" leather bound by Bantam books 1983, My dad got all the books. Could not find "The Sky-Liners by itself in any version. It's brown, with the tittle embossed on the spine.

[Jay Wright · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this series. I know he has a formula but he sure knew how to write Westerns. The good guys win, but he paints a beautiful country and you can truly like his characters. Don't get me wrong the characters are not purely good or evil, but you can count on a good outcome. I'm addicted. Chiclets for my soul.

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Volume 4 of Louis L'Amour's Sackett novels, these books focus on Galloway, Flagon and Logan, the "Clinch Mountain Sacketts", a little meaner and slightly outlawish kin to the Sacketts of the earlier novels.

Still fun, great examples of the western genre.

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[Charlotte Gunther · Rating 3 out of 5]

good guys -- bad guys, they all live by their own law.