"Tex"

"Tex"

I The Trail Calls II Refreshed Memories III Tempted Anew IV A Crowded Day V A Trimmer Trimmed VI Friendly Interest VII Weights and Measures VIII After Dark IX A Pleasant Excursion X Speed and Guile XI Empty Honors XII Closer Friendships XIII Outcheating Cheaters XIV Tact and Courage XV A Good Samaritan XVI Buffalo Creek in the Spotlight XVII The Rush XVIII "Here Lies the Road to Rome!" XIX A Lecture Wasted XX Plans Awry XXI An Equal Guilt XXII The False Trail and the True Memory's curtain rises and shows a scene softened by time and blurred by forgetfulness, yet the details slowly emerge like the stars at twilight. There appears a rain-washed, wind-swept range in Montana, a great pasture level in the center, but rising on its sides like a vast, shallow saucer, with here and there a crack of more somber hue where a ravine, or sluggish stream, lead toward the distant river. Green underfoot, deep blue overhead, with a lavender and purple rim under a horizon made ragged and sharp by the not too distant mountains and foothills. An occasional deep blue gash in the rim's darker tones marks where some pass or canyon cuts through the encircling barriers. A closer inspection would reveal a half-dozen earthy hollows, the rutting holes of the once numerous buffalo which paused here on their periodic migrations. In the foreground a white ranchhouse and its flanking red buildings, framed by the gray of corral walls, nestles on the southern slope of a rise and basks in the sunlight. From it three faint trails grow more and more divergent, leading off to Everywhere. Scattered over the vast, green pastures are the grazing units of a great herd, placid and content, moving slowly and jerkily, like spilled water down a gentle, dusty slope. But in the total movement there is one thread with definite directness, even though it constantly turns from side to side in avoiding the grazing cattle. This, as being different and indicating purpose, takes our instant attention. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 43100
Author: Mulford, Clarence Edward
Release Date: Jul 6, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English