Monahan said. It was the next afternoon, and he and Sweeney and young Julia and Blue were on the road again, traveling west, backtracking over the Mormon Trail. They had set out at six in the morning, and Monahan was just getting around to telling the others what had possessed him to leave Mae an...
After marrying, she and her husband had opened a general mercantile, also in Illinois, until the war erupted and Bradley Bewley found himself drawn into the life of a soldier. Wartime friendships and interactions had led him to a conviction that his most promising future might lie in the cattle b...
Well, that wasn’t strictly true, he corrected himself. Lots of things actually were worse than that, he supposed, and among them was being jolted awake and having to leave your nice warm bed when your nice warm wife was snuggled up against you. But there were more important things to worry about ...
The Indian was still chasing them, waving that tomahawk around and looking like he wanted to scalp all three of them. Nate knew they couldn’t fight him. The Indian was too big and too strong, and he looked more frightening than anything Nate had ever seen, with those bones sticking up in his hair...
At first they did not understand the furtive, nervous, and downright suspicious glances afforded them by the residents. They got a clearer idea when they began to note bullet holes and scars on the building fronts, and above the town, on a knoll not yet fenced and consecrated for the purpose, fre...
I sort of hated it; I hadn’t figured out who nipped the boodle in Zimmer’s cash box, and I hadn’t come up with any suspects at all. I wished I could set it right with him. I wrestled myself out of my cot at Belle’s Boarding House and got out there just as the outfit was fixing to roll. “You, is i...
Then they quickly packed up their equipment and beat it back to park headquarters as fast as they could lope their mules. Smoke headed north, toward one of the strangest sights he had ever seen in all his life: the dead forest. Old Preacher used to tell a story about Jim Bridger, when someone ask...