seventy-one's

Updated: May 3, 2025

If there are any of Seventy-one's crew left alive, you ought to give them thirty days for calling you out before you could shake hands with yourself." Being by nature deliberate in forming friendships, and proportionally tenacious of them when they were formed, Lidgerwood's impulse was to hold all men at arm's length until he was reasonably assured of sincerity and a common ground.

Francis Lynde - The Taming of Red Butte Western

Bradley, reporting in, had given his own paraphrase of the new superintendent's strictures on Red Butte Western despatching and the criticism had lost nothing in the recasting. "Seventy-one's in the ditch at Gloria Siding," he said, speaking pointedly to the trainmaster.

Francis Lynde - The Taming of Red Butte Western