THE SKY PILOT 

A TALE OF THE FOOTHILLS 

by Ralph Connor 

PREFACE 

The measure of a man's power to help his brother is the measure of
the love in the heart of him and of the faith he has that at last
the good will win.  With this love that seeks not its own and this
faith that grips the heart of things, he goes out to meet many
fortunes, but not that of defeat. 

This story is of the people of the Foothill Country; of those men
of adventurous spirit, who left homes of comfort, often of luxury,
because of the stirring in them to be and to do some worthy thing;
and of those others who, outcast from their kind, sought to find in
these valleys, remote and lonely, a spot where they could forget