Cow-Country
Cow-Country
Bud Birnie, the son of a wealthy Wyoming rancher, sets out to make his way with three horses as capital. He does it, of course, but it entails encounters with Indians and highwaymen, and an ominous venture in Burroback Valley. Somewhat above the author's average.
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baby in size. He's been teasing to walk with the niggers and
help drive the drag. Is my husband calling?"
Her husband was, and Frank rode away at a leisurely trot. Haste had little to do with trailing a herd, where eight miles was called a good day's journey and six an average achievement. The fallen ox was unyoked by the mellow-voiced but exasperated Ezra, and since he would not rise, the three remaining oxen, urged by the gad and Ezra's upbraiding, swung the wagon to one side and moved it a little farther after the slow-moving herd, so that the exhausted animal could rest, and the raw recruit be yoked in where he could do the least harm and would the speediest learn a new lesson in discomfort. Mrs. Birnie glanced again at the huddle of pink in the nest of quilts behind a beloved chest of drawers in the wagon, and sighed with relief because Buddy slept.
An ambitious man-child already was Buddy, accustomed to certain phrases that, since he could toddle, had formed inevitable accompaniment to his in
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