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Updated: May 15, 2025

"When he'd got the warrant, Schleisinger protesting all the while that Bart'd kill him for issuing it, Mr. Lidgerwood took it to Hepburn and told him to serve it. Jack backed down so fast that he fell over his feet. Said to ask him anything else under God's heavens and he'd do it anything but that." "Huh!" said Judson.

Francis Lynde - The Taming of Red Butte Western

If he was a dog how'd he come to be shot " "Some brute of a sheep herder may have done it. What could it prove?" "It only proves that Dan is queer powerful queer! Satan an' Black Bart are still as wild as they ever was, except that they got one master. An' they ain't got a thing to do with other people. Black Bart'd tear the heart out of a man that so much as patted his head."

Max Brand - The Untamed