By Louis L'Amour
After the bloodbath Hardy and Betty Sue have been left with just a horse and a knife with which to stand the lengthy conflict opposed to the desert. A seven-year-old boy and a three-year-old woman, stranded at the unlimited prairie. They have been up opposed to hunger, marauding Indians, savage outlaws, and wild animals. They have been amazing obdurate, however the odds have been opposed to them—and their success was once approximately to expire.
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The stars looked like lamps in far-off houses. A long time after he had fallen asleep he woke with a start. He heard the stallion breathing heavily, and he lay still, listening. Somewhere not far off he heard water splash and the sound of an animal as it drank. Lifting himself cautiously to one elbow, he peered through the branches toward the water’s edge. A great black bulk showed there, and he waited, half-frightened. Then the big head lifted, drops trickled from its muzzle, and he saw it was a bull buffalo, and a large one.
Shrewdly, he was paying little attention to trail sign…instead, he was trying to foresee what the Little Warrior would do. That was how he found the crudely made shelter under the dead cottonwood. Chapter 4 FRANK DARROW SWUNG his horse around and studied the tracks. “Injun pony,” he said. “Scott, you’ve got to face it. Any chance we had to find those youngsters was washed away by that rain. Look for yourself…there ain’t any tracks to be seen. ” Collins indicated the pony tracks. “That Indian was going somewhere.
Squires must have guessed his thought. “Scott,” the old mountain man said roughly, “you got to forget what’s happenin’ out there. You got to think just of how to find them. You got to live each day, each hour, by itself. ” Scott Collins forced himself to think calmly. It was plains country where the wagon train had been attacked and burned, but not far west of there the country broke up into gullies, rolling hills, and some long valleys, with the mountains to the north of the trail, but close by.