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Updated: July 8, 2025
It was the way Gowdy always went careering over the prairies, killing horses by the score, and laughingly answering criticisms by saying that there would be horses left in the world after he was gone.
"Glad to make your acquaintance," said Gowdy; "and may I crave the acquaintance of our young Argonaut here?" "Let me present Mr. " said Doctor Bliven, "Mr. Mr. "Vandemark," said I. "Let me present Mr. Vandemark," said the doctor, "a very obliging young man to whom I am already under many obligations, many obligations."
So, aside from Buck Gowdy, I was the first of his fellow-citizens of Monterey County to become acquainted with N.V. Creede. He reminded me at first of Lawyer Jackway of Madison, the guardian ad litem who had sung the song that still recurred to me occasionally "Sold again, And got the tin, And sucked another Dutchman in!"
Rowena was asleep when I looked in, and I went out to plow. If Magnus had gone to kill Buck Gowdy, there was nothing I could do to prevent it. As a matter of fact, I approved of his impulse. I had felt it myself, though not with any such wrathful bitterness.
Jared knew nothing of the complexities and delays and expenses and uncertainties of the law, but he had already taught Dr. Gowdy that the overbearing power of sheer ignorance was not to be despised. "I may be a poor ignorant young cub," he returned, "but, for all that, I know how to take care of myself. And of another too that right will be mine within half an hour."
There wuz quite dubersome looks all round the room when she handed in the money and went right out, for she had a errent to the store. And Sister Gowdy spoke up and said she didn't exactly like to use money got in that way.
They said that Gowdy swore when he heard of this, and exclaimed, "I don't care about her picking me out; but I hate to be joined with that damned Black Abolitionist." The elder seemed dazed after he had done the deed, and looked around at the new church building as if wondering whether he had not committed some sort of crime in thus offending a man who had put so much money in it.
All through this talk, Gowdy watched my face as if to catch me telling something crooked; and I made up my mind to give him just enough of the truth to cover what he was sure to find out whether I told him or not. "Did you pick up any passengers as you came along?" he asked, with a sharp look. "Yes," I said. "I had a lawyer with me for a day or two Mr. Creede." "Heard of him," said Gowdy.
"I don't want to," she said. "I like to wait on table better." "Then why do you change?" said I. "Mr. Gowdy ," began Ma Fewkes, but was interrupted by her daughter, who talked on until her mother was switched off from her explanation. "I wun't work with niggers!" said Rowena. "That Pinck has brought a yellow girl here from Dubuque, and she's goin' to wait on the table as she did in Dubuque.
I know that Buckner Gowdy was a wild and turbulent rakehell in Kentucky and after many bad scrapes was forced to run away from the state, and was given his huge plantation of "worthless" land as he called it in Iowa; that he had married his wife, who was a poor girl of good family named Ann Royall, because he couldn't get her except by marrying her.
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