The Settling of the Sage

The Settling of the Sage

A rider jogged northward along the road on a big pinto horse, a led buckskin, packed, trailing a half-length behind. The horseman traveled with the regulation outfit of the roaming range dwellersaddle, bed roll and canvas war bag containing personal treasures and extra articles of attirebut this was supplemented by two panniers of food and cooking equipment and a one-man teepee that was lashed on top in lieu of canvas pack cover. A ranch road branched off to the left and the man pulled up his horse to view a sign that stood at the forks. "Squatter, don't let the sun go down on you," he read. "That's the third one of those reminders, Calico," he told the horse. "The wording a little different but the sentiment all the same." He turned in his saddle and looked off across the unending expanse of sage. Coldriverprobably so named from the fact that the three wells in the town constituted the only source of water within an hour's ridelay thirty miles to the south, a cluster of some forty buildings nestling on a wind-swept flat. Seventy miles beyond it, and with but two more such centers of civilization between, the railroad stretched across the rolling desolation. North of him the hills lifted above the sage, angling with the directions so that four miles along the Three Bar road that branched off to the left would bring him to their foot and a like distance along the main fork saw its termination at Brill's store, situated in a dent in the base of the hills, the end of the Coldriver Trail. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 18856
Author: Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)
Release Date: Jul 18, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English