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The Moccasin Ranch: A Story of Dakota
Early in the gray and red dawn of a March morning in 1883, two wagons moved slowly out of Boomtown, the two-year-old "giant of the plains." As the teams drew past the last house, the strangeness of the scene appealed irresistibly to the newly arrived immigrants. The town lay behind them on the level, treeless plain like a handful of blocks pitched upon a russet robe. Its houses were mainly shanties of pine, one-story2 in height, while here and there actual tents gleamed in the half-light with infinite suggestion of America's restless pioneers. The wind blew fresh and chill from the west. The sun rose swiftly, and the thin scarf of morning cloud melted away, leaving an illimitable sweep of sky arching an almost equally majestic plain. There was a poignant charm in the aira smell of freshly uncovered sod, a width and splendor in the view which exalted the movers beyond words. The prairie was ridged here and there with ice, and the swales were full of posh and water. Geese were slowly winging their way against the wind, and ducks were sitting here and there on the ice-rimmed ponds. The sod was burned black and bare, and so firm with frost that the wagon chuckled noisily as it passed over it. The whistle of the driver3 called afar, startling the ducks from their all-night resting-places. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 19764
Author: Garland, Hamlin
Release Date: Nov 11, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English
Illustrator: Howitt, John Newton, 1885-1958
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