Sunday's Colt & Other Stories (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
He’d heard stories that the railroad was pushing into Kansas and the Yankees were paying seven times the going price for linebacks than he could get in Williamson County. That made Old Dil’s mouth water since he reckoned he had nearly five thousand head scattered through the hills and thickets. He ordered his wranglers to bring in some full-grown steers and figured he’d risk sending a few up to Missouri to see if he could turn a dollar. Nobody in the outfit had ever been to Missouri or Kansas so he hired a gent named Tyco Reeves to help blaze a trail to Sedalia or wherever he could find a market. Tyco was an experienced hand and drove Texas Longhorns east throughout the war to keep Bedford Forest and that fool, Braxton Bragg, supplied with meat for their troops. Tyco was a tall redhead with a bushy beard and blue eyes so pale they glowed in the morning sun. He was a sure enough reb managing his business with a withered left arm and half his left foot gone from bullet wounds he received when he tried to run the blockade at Vicksburg.
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