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Updated: May 18, 2025
They breasted the long slope of a low hill and took the decline beyond. The young plainsman had the legs and the wind of a Marathon runner. His was the perfect physical fitness of one who lives a clean, hard life in the dry air of the high lands. The swiftness and the endurance of the fugitive told him that he was in the wake of youth trained to a fine edge.
First, let me ask a frank question: Is The Plainsman out for a square deal all around, regardless of who may be hit?" Blenkinsop took time to consider the question and his answer, chewing thoughtfully upon his extinct cigar while he reflected. "This is straight goods?" he asked finally. "You're not trying to pull me into an admission that can be used against us a little later on?"
He edged over close to the plainsman and, in a pause in the talk, whispered to him: "I want you to tell me more about the Indians." The other man turned quickly and said: "Boy, they're my friends. In a show-down I'm on their side; my father was a half-breed." The night passed quietly and nearly all the men went home, leaving the Pratts to meet the storm alone, but Jennison had a final word.
"Tex, where is that buckskin horse of yours?" "In Clark's stable. Want him?" "Yes. Give him a good feed and bring him here as soon as he is ready. Bring one feed and a canteen, and while the horse is eating go around to my room and get my gun." Without a question the old plainsman left the group and walked swiftly away.
The chill bars of red and gold were gone from the west. When he looked back he could see the train no more, and heard only the faint sound of the cracking of whips. The train was fast disappearing in the pass. But Dick had become a good woodsman and plainsman. His sense of direction was rarely wrong, and he went straight upon the trail for the creek.
I had afterward the satisfaction of seeing the chief, an experienced plainsman, consume a full hour, rifle in hand, working round to the leeward of a dead coyote in the sure and certain hope of bagging a sleeping buffalo. Mirage or no mirage, you must not too implicitly trust your eyes in the fantastic atmosphere of the high plains.
Meantime the Anglo-Saxon civilization was rolling swiftly toward the upper West. The Indians were being driven from the Plains. A solid army was pressing behind the vanguard of soldier, scout, and plainsman. The railroads were pushing out into a new and untracked empire. They carried the market with them.
To get the animals down to the level plain, now that the canyon was out of commission, taxed the ingenuity of even so expert a plainsman as Hank Coombs; but it was finally accomplished. Then the horses of the cowboys were found, and the entire party started for the distant ranch, expecting to complete their jaunt before sundown.
How he dealt will be seen presently, but when he finally reached this conclusion, the clipping from the Pepper County Plainsman had not yet come before his eyes. It is worth relating how the clipping did come before his eyes, for no one in Ripton had the temerity to speak of it.
Smiling, and yet not at ease, he looked at the two women and nodded his head encouragingly, but whether the encouragement was for himself or for them he could not have told. His last words, however, had altered the situation. The girl had caught at a suggestion in them which startled her. This rough, white plainsman was come to make love to her, and to say what?
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