The sky-liners
(Book)

Publishing dates may vary. Published in paperback in 1967 by Bantam Books (151 p.)

When Flagon and Gallaway Sackett went to the town of Tazewell, Tennessee to pay a debt their father had incurred, they were not looking for trouble. Black Fetchen and his clan had other ideas, but they let the Sacketts get the drop on them. Humiliated, Fetchen swore to get even. He thought he saw a chance to do that when the two men agreed to escort sixteen-year-old Judith Costello, who had a crush on Fetchen, to her father's ranch in Colorado. With Fetchen and his crowd in hot pursuit, the trio braved the dangers of the prairie. By the time they reached the elder Costello's ranch, Judith had forgotten Fetchen, but he had not forgotten her or the Sacketts. With three good cowhands they met along the trail, the Sacket brothers faced the Fetchens in a protracted gun battle. The three Fetchens who survived beat a hasty retreat back to Tennessee, while Flagon decided Judith just might be the girl for him. Time period: 1875-1879.