The Lure of the Dim Trails
(Paperback)
B M Bower,
Independently Published (Publisher)
Published
2020
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Book Excerpt: ..."ain't your name Thurston? I'll bet a carload uh steers it is--Bud Thurston. And your home range is Fort Benton."Phil stared and confessed to all but the "Bud.""That's what me and your dad always called yuh," the man asserted. "Well, I'll be hanged! But I knew it. I knew I'd run acrost yuh somewheres. You're the dead image uh your dad, Bill Thurston. And me and Bill freighted together from Whoop-up to Benton along in the seventies. Before yuh was born we was chums. I don't reckon you'd remember me? Hank Graves, that used to pack yuh around on his back, and fill yuh up on dried prunes-- when dried prunes was worth money? Yuh used to call 'em 'frumes, ' and--Why, it was me with your dad when the Indians pot-shot him at Chimney Rock; and it was me helped your mother straighten things up so she could pull out, back where she come from. She never took to the West much. How is she? Dead? Too bad; she was a mighty fine woman, your mother was."Well, I'll-be-hanged! Bud Thurston little, tow-heaClose..
