Buckskin Run by Louis L'Amour

Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Usenet, C429, Kat, Exratorrents
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1981-06-02T07:00:00+00:00

IN THE STONE house against the cliff Morgan Tanner looked across the table at his wife. “Honey, I’ve been thinking. If we had us a Jersey bull now, a right fine Jersey from good milk stock, we might cross-breed those heifers into better milkers in a few seasons.”

Ann Tanner looked at him thoughtfully. “You want to use that money Uncle Fred left us? Is that it?”

“It’s your decision. It’s up to you and Johnny. He was your uncle.”

“But he left it to all of us! What do you think, Johnny?”

“I’ve been thinking about it, Sis. Morg never spoke of it before, but it’s been in my mind. There’s a market for milk and butter down at Algosa. This country has plenty of beef.”

“All right,” Ann agreed. “Buy a bull whenever you can find one you want.”

“I’ll go into town tomorrow,” he said.

Morgan Tanner reached town at ten the following morning, and a few minutes earlier Wiley Dunn, Ollie Herndon, and twelve Hat hands swept down on the Lonetree ranch. It had been shrewdly planned, for Ollie had been watching the ranch with glasses and had seen the boy ride off on some mission. Instantly he was down off the ridge and they were riding.

There was no one about when they rode into the yard. Dunn shouted and, white-faced, Ann Tanner came to the door. “Just what is it you want, Mr. Dunn? Have you taken to fighting women now?”

His face flushed but his jaw was set. “I’m fighting no one, but we’ve come to search the range! That damn no-good husband of yours has taken to rustling cows. We seen some of them.”

“We have no cattle but our own! Now I am ordering you to get off this place at once!”

She turned quickly to grasp the shotgun, but Herndon leaped from his horse and caught the barrel as she was swinging it up. He wrenched it roughly from her hands. “Right purty, ain’t you? Maybe you could do with a good man after we string up that husband of yours!”

She slapped him across the mouth and Herndon struck her. She had stepped back, but the blow caught her on the forehead and knocked her down.

“Ollie!” Dunn was white-faced with anger. “For God’s sake, man! Get into your saddle now, and be damned quick about it. I’ll have no man strike a woman in my presence!” He pointed. “Get into your saddle, do you hear?”

Turning to Ann he said, “Sorry, ma’am, but you shouldn’t have reached for that gun.”

“And let you steal our cattle. You’re asking for trouble, Mr. Dunn. You don’t know Morgan as I do. Morgan Turner’s mother was a Lowry, from the Neuces country. You may remember what happened to the Fullers.”

Wiley Dunn stared at her, shocked. Every detail of the twenty-five year feud was known to everybody in cattle country. The Fullers, or some people who called themselves that, had killed a Lowry boy in an argument over horses, and every Fuller had died.

Suddenly, with startling clarity, he remembered the scene from years before.

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