bananers

Updated: July 7, 2025

There was merriment in the stranger's gray eyes, a smile on his homely face that softened its harsh lines. "Has nobody ever tried it?" he inquired. "There's been plenty of fools here, but none that wild that I ever heard of," the bone man said. "You're a hundred miles and more past the deadline for wheat you'd just as well try to raise bananers here.

George W. (George Washington) Ogden - Trail's End