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Updated: June 21, 2025
"I had not any word from my young men about a war party coming down the river. Many white tepees on wheels going up the river; no soldiers coming down this way." "We are going on up to meet our soldiers," said Auberry, sternly. "The Sioux have killed some of our men below here.
I got over three hundred dollars right here in my pocket." "But I don't quite understand about the man your husband " "Yep, my lastest one. Didn't you know I married ole man Auberry? He's 'round here somewheres, lookin' fer a drink o' licker, I reckon. Colonel Meriwether 'lowed there'd be some fightin' 'round these parts afore long.
Orme smiled at the old man. "None the less," said he, "you will see the day before long, when not one railroad, but many, will cross these plains. As for the telegraph, if only we had a way of tapping these wires, we might find it extremely useful to us all right now." "The old ways were good enough," insisted Auberry. "As fur telegraphin', it ain't new on these plains.
This here girl is shaking the teeth plumb out'n her head." Auberry and I had dragged some wood from the edge of the drift and pulled it into a heap near by, before we realized that neither of us had matches. "Humph!" snorted our leader, feeling in her pockets. She drew forth two flasks, each stoppered with a bit of corncob.
Auberry, can't you find me a bit of sinew somewhere, and perhaps a needle of some sort?" A vast dizziness and a throbbing of the head remained after they were quite done with me, but something of this left me when finally I sat leaning back against the wagon body and looked about me.
I crawled back along the trunk of the snag to a place as near the roots as I could reach, and letting myself down gently, found that I could keep my footing on the sand. "Look out there! boy," cried Auberry to me. "This river's dangerous. If it takes you down, swim for the shore. Don't try to get back here."
By noon of the next day we were on our way westward, Auberry himself now much content. "The settlements for them that likes 'em," said he. "For me, there's nothing like the time when I start west, with a horse under me, and run au large, as the French traders say. You'll get a chance now to see the Plains, my son." At first we saw rather the prairies than the Plains proper.
I shall remember the actors in that little scene so long as I live. "We have spoken," said Auberry. "That is all we have to say." Both parties turned and went back to their companions. Belknap, Auberry and I had nearly reached our waiting troopers, when we missed Orme, and turned back to see where he was. He was standing close to the four chiefs, who had by this time reached their horses.
I found the great weight of the bull difficult to turn, but at length I hooked one horn into the ground, and laying hold of the lower hind leg, I actually turned the carcass on its back. I was busy skinning when my old friend Auberry rode up. "That's the first time I ever saw a bull die on his back," said he. "He did not die on his back," I replied. "I turned him over." "You did and alone?
So our little bivouac on the beach came to an end. A moment later the passengers were embarked, and Auberry and I, standing at the bow, were about to push off the boat for them. "A moment, sir," exclaimed our friend of the fireside, rising and stepping toward me as I stood alongside the boat. "You are forgetting your coat." She would have taken it from her shoulders, but I forbade it.
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