He lived with two cowhands and a Ute halfbreed named Pete who could do everything a white cowhand could do and better except speak English. His English was a living torture. Mike didn’t like the set-up on his frontier ranch right at that moment and he hadn’t liked it all winter. He liked the fact...
He couldn’t remember when he had been so tired. He pushed open the door and saw that though it was mid-morning there was a goodly crowd there already. The herds were starting to come up from Texas and there were plenty of trail-drivers there drinking. Some just starting, some trying to get rid of...
Bourn gently. She sat up with a start, not seeing him clearly in the murky starlight. “What is it?” she demanded. “We going to try and get away,” he told her. He walked over to the canelo and saddled it, thinking. It wasn’t going to be easy to get out of there, but they were better off with regar...
His side was as stiff as a Bostonian’s neck, but he felt pretty good. He thought about Billy Gage and his manager, Harry Shultz, and he wondered if Gage had been the man behind him during the attack in his room. He’d rather not believe that, because he had liked the man, but he knew it was possib...
Jack and Sarie rose to meet them. Dusk was falling and Jack couldn’t see the faces of the two men. They got down slowly from their saddles. McAllister walked over to the burning embers and stared at them for a moment. “I don’t have to ask if that was Markham,” he said when he turned back to the o...
It seemed to move at a snail’s pace and, though it was certain now that it was heading for the river, it was plain that it would not reach it today. McAllister didn’t doubt that Rawley would expect an attack at the crossing. But he wouldn’t get one. He would never be attacked when he expected it....
He was unaware that his following had been variously reported in the American and Mexican presses as being a hundred or two hundred strong. What he did know was that there were several thousand white and Mexican troops on the lookout for him. That did not perturb him. He was used to that and it g...
