backtrailed

Updated: April 30, 2025

How many foot-pounds did the boy heart of Chatterton beat before it broke? Something may be left to the imagination! We backtrailed to a point where the cliff fell away into a rock-strewn incline, and clambered down a break-neck slope to the edge of the crystal broil. There was a strange exhilaration about it a novel sense of discovering a natural wonder for ourselves.

John Gneisenau Neihardt - The River and I