His interests were largely centered in his hacienda in California, and however blue the day, he drew solace from the fact that he would soon be returning to that land of sunshine, where, God be praised, his daughter would soon be safely wed. Disquieting news at this time w...
They ate together in the ranch kitchen, Mrs. Crockett doing the cooking. Eating was a solemn rite that seemed to dry up the wells of conversation. Before they had finished, people began to arrive. With one or two exceptions they were all related in ...
But water was needed as well as cover. At the end of several days they found a place that suited them. Others had been there before. There was even a brush corral that some rustling gang had built years past. Little Bill looked the ground over carefully and from such sign as he could discover, de...
THE SEED IS PLANTED. SOME there were who had smiled when Angel Irosabal had first sown wheat in Paradise Valley, but in those days water-rights were not so jealously guarded, and he had irrigated his fields to suit his pleasure. Martin Creek came tumbling out of the Santa ...