By Louis L'Amour

Barnabus Pike is not any gunfighter and never a lot of a road fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's global. they have either taken their proportion of challenging knocks. Now they are seeking to live on a brutal wintry weather in a distant Montana line shack, acquire their pay, and quiet down for reliable. Then they go paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his attractive, lively sister, who have been burned off their land. it is a struggle Pike and Holt don't need, don't want, and do not dare flip their backs on—especially whilst one of many perpetrators will be one in all Pike's outdated acquaintances. Hunted like animals around the frozen nation-state, Pike and Holt will chance everything—including their reputations, their dreams—and their lives.

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The ice froze rock-hard on the creek that year, and never broke until late spring. Taking all in all, that had been a good winter. The cabin was snug against the wind, the pot-bellied stove gave off almost too much heat, and there were old magazines and a couple of books lying around. When not in a mind to read, I’d sit and ponder. Whilst only a youngster I had taken to rebuilding places in my mind, places I’d lived in or seen, and when I’d nothing else to do I would put a place together, every single thing in place, then bit by bit I’d recall the folks I’d known there and what was said—what we talked about, and the like.

I didn’t know they piled it that high,” I said, and hit him. CHAPTER 4 WHEN MY EYES opened, the sun struck right into them, but it was that spring wagon jouncing over rocks and rough road that woke me up. It took me a minute or two to realize where I was, and when I did, I didn’t like it. There I was, lying on my back on the floor of a wagon with boxes and sacks all around me, and my head felt like it had been kicked by a mule. There’s nothing like lying on the bottom of a wagon whilst the horses are trotting downhill over a rough slope to shake a man up, but when I started to rise I wished I’d had another idea.

There was a log cabin with two windows and a door, with a corral close by, and from the door of the cabin a man could see the ford a short distance off, where folks usually crossed the creek. When me and Eddie drove up, Bud Oliver was standing in the doorway, and he had him a saddled horse right there. “You taken your time,” he said irritably. Then he gave a look around and gathered up his reins. “She’s all yourn,” he said, and stepped into the leather. ” I asked. “Hell, no. You tell Justin if he wants that wagon he can drive it himself.

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