range-lore

Updated: May 16, 2025

For Billy Boyle, knowing well his range-lore, could see nothing before the Double-Crank but black failure. "It begins to look, Dilly," he began, "as though I've stuck yuh on this game. Yuh staked the wrong player; yuh should uh backed the man that stacked the deck on me. There's hell to pay on the range, Dilly. Last winter sure put a crimp in the range-stuff that's what I come to tell yuh.

B. M. Bower - The Long Shadow