ISBN: 9781153723138

Excerpt: ...its progress the moon rose clear of the divide and hung, a great orange ball, above the high-flung peaks. Almost simultaneously with the rising of the moon, the wind rose, and… Plus…

Excerpt: ...its progress the moon rose clear of the divide and hung, a great orange ball, above the high-flung peaks. Almost simultaneously with the rising of the moon, the wind rose, and scuds of cloud-vapour passed, low down, blurring the higher peaks. We got to get a move on, opined the Texan, with an eye on the clouds. Throw them dishes into the pack the way they are, an'' we''ll clean ''em when we''ve got more time. There''s a storm brewin'' west of here an'' we want to get as far as we can before she hits. By the time the others were in the saddle, Bat was throwing the final hitch on his pack outfit, and with the Texan in the lead, the little cavalcade headed southward. An hour''s climb, during which they skirted patches of scrub pine, clattered over the loose rocks of ridges, and followed narrow, brush-choked coulees to their sources, found them on the crest of the Cow Creek divide. The wind, blowing half a gale from the south-east, whipped about their faces and roared and whistled among the rocks and scrub timber. Alice''s eyes followed the Texan''s glance toward the west and there, low down on the serried horizon she could see the black mass of a cloud bank. You can''t tell nothin'' about those thunderheads. They might hold off ''til along towards mornin'', they might pile up on us in an hour, and they might not break at all, vouchsafed the man, as Alice reined in her horse close beside his. But the wind is from the other direction! Yes, it generally is when the thunder-storms get in their work. If we can get past the Johnson fences we can take it easy an'' camp most anywhere when the storm hits, but if we get caught on this side without no moonlight to travel by an'' have to camp over tomorrow in some coulee, there''s no tellin'' who''ll run onto us. This south slope''s infested some plentiful by the riders of three or four outfits. He headed his horse down the steep descent, the others following in single file. As the coulee widened Alice found herself riding... James B. Hendryx, Books, Fiction and Literature, The Texan Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153723138

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 140 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=213gr, [GR: 21110 - TB/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen], [SW: - Fiction - General], Kartoniert/Broschiert<

ISBN: 1153723131

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