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“Sundy, you put this shirt on and slide over here on my horse with me. We’re going up there and scout this trading post,” Eli said as he unlocked her shackles and pulled a buckskin shirt out of his saddlebag.

“Marshal, you be watchful of Sundy if there’s shootin. We’ve took a liking to her and want to see her do good, now that her kin have been arrested,” Jessie said.

“I’ll be alright, I know Marshal Eli will keep me safe,” she said as she hugged her thin body to his back.

“Duncan, I’m going on up there and look this place over, just keep ridin’ that way and I’ll cut you off.”

“Eli, you be careful up there, you don’t know what you’re ridin’ into.”

Eli bumped his horse’s flanks and they rode at a gallop ahead of the slow moving caravan of prisoners for more than a mile.

“Eli, that stinking trading post is just around the next bend in the river. Y.B. always took us up to the back side of it. He never liked to be around some of the mean ass riders that hung around the front, drinking and hollering vulgar things at the women inside until they came out and sat with them.”

“Were there women there all the time?”

“Yes, they lived with the old man who owned the place. He kept them there to lay with the outlaws that hung out there all the time. Ma always told me she was gonna sell me off to that dirty old buzzard if I didn’t come to be more like her and the others.”

“We’ll stop here and walk the rest of the way. We’ll get a little closer, then I want you to stay with my horse so you’ll be safe. I want to look the place over. All we want is some blankets or clothes to keep all of you from getting sun-cooked.”

“I’ll stay here, but I don’t really care to,” she said as Eli slipped to the ground and was gone through the tall brush and willows along the riverbank.

When he came to the clearing where the trading post was, he saw it was twice as big as the one in Omega.

There were two horses tied in back and he slipped through the brush to look at the front.

There were four horses tied at the hitching rail and three more in a small corral off to the side.

Three men in dirty buckskins sat on the porch, drinking whiskey from a jug they passed back and forth.

Eli heard screaming – a girl’s scream. He was about to walk out of the brush, when a tall fat woman walked out naked. She was dragging a tall thin Indian girl by her hair. The girl was naked and she was fighting all the way.

“Stop your damned screaming and fighting, you been bought and paid for and now you’re gonna start earning old Lester’s money back,” the older woman said as she backhanded the girl across her face.

“Coon Doolin, here’s the girl you bought. You wanted a young’un that’d never been stuck before, well here she is,” the woman laughed as she shoved the naked girl down on the man sitting in the middle.

“Hot damn, look at her skinny ass. I’m gonna tear that little Injun ass up for her. Here, you fellers hold her for me while I get these damn skins down off my legs,” he said as he pushed the girl off his legs.

“We get her too when you get through, that was our deal.” Another man said as he and the third man grabbed the girl’s arms and held her.

The naked fat woman walked back through the door, laughing as she went. Eli walked out of the brush and over to the porch where the men were already pulling the girl down on top of Coon Doolin’s naked legs.

“Hold her still, I can’t get my fuckin’ cock in her ass with her jerking and jumping like that,” he said, all excited.

Coon Doolin froze as if he were suddenly cast of stone, when the big knife slipped across his throat, cutting just enough to make him bleed.

“Who in the fuck are you? We bought this stinking Injun and we aim to fuck her,” the man on Coon’s right said as he jumped back, his hand reaching for his pistol.

“You pull that gun, you’ll die mister,” Eli said, his eyes drawn tight as he looked at the man.

Eli saw movement to his left, as the third man drew his gun.

Swinging his left hand, Eli knocked the gun from his hand. He grabbed the man’s hair, smashing his head down face first onto the back of Coon Doolin’s chair.

The second man drew his gun and died with it pointed at the floor as Eli shot him between his eyes from three feet away.

There was movement at the doorway and Eli whirled to look, his knife cutting into Coon Doolin’s throat deeper, yet still not killing him.

“Drop that gun, Injun,” the fat woman yelled as she slowly thumbed the hammers back on the double barreled shotgun. She died with a hole under her chin where the .45 slug tore through her throat and out the back of her skull.

Both barrels of buckshot tore the porch up at her feet, the barrels sticking through the gaping hole as she fell forward on the upright butt of the scattergun, somersaulting over the gun onto the porch with a loud splat.

“Turn the girl loose or I’ll cut your head off, then take the scalp from it,” Eli said as he once more tightened the knife to Coon Doolin’s throat.

He released the young Indian girl and she fell from his knees, then rolled off the porch into the dirt.

“Get on your belly and if you move, I’ll kill you,” Eli told the man as he pulled his bloody knife from his throat.

“Eli, look out,” he heard Sundy Salter yell from somewhere in the brush. He whirled just as the bullet tore through his buckskin shirt above his right elbow. A man had stepped around the corner of the building and Eli shot him in his mouth as he pointed his gun for another shot.

Eli knew there had to be at least one more, since the old man Sundy said owned the place hadn’t showed his face

He waved his hand across the door opening and there were two blasts from another shotgun. Eli stepped into the doorway as the old man stood with the gun breeched, loading it again. He jerked the barrel up with just one shell in it. He died as he shot the top out of a wooden table.

Another man ran out the back door. As Eli hurried to the door, he saw Duncan whack the barrel of his .45 across the man’s head.

“Eli, I figured there was gonna be some trouble, so I just come on up.”

“You did good, Duncan. I never planned to kill them, but they were about to rape that little Indian girl out front, then all hell busted loose when I stepped in to stop that.”

“How many did you kill, Eli? Are there any left alive?”

“There’s one on the front porch alive, maybe two. I reckon I killed two, maybe three in self defense.”

“You girls bring them horses on up, I reckon we got a little cleaning up to do,” Duncan called back to the bushes.

Jessie Mealer and her sister Sissy walked out of the brush with Lettie Hill, leading the four horses the three Salter women and Y.B. Yoes were shackled to.

Eli walked around to the front to find Coon Doolin still on his belly, his buckskin breeches down around his knees, just like he’d been when he was about to rape the young Indian girl. Sundy was on the ground, holding the naked girl as the young girl sobbed and held onto her.

Jessie and Sissy ran to them and helped them to their feet.

“Did they rape you?” Jessie asked.

“No.”

“Come to the river with us. We’ll clean you up and find you some clothes to put on. We came here looking for clothes ourselves,” Jessie said as she and Sundy took her arm and led her to the river’s edge.

“Lettie, you go in there and find some shirts or some blankets to cover all y’alls naked asses with,” Duncan told her as she stood looking at the dead fat woman lying naked on the porch.

Lettie came out in a few minutes with four men’s cloth shirts and four buckskin shirts. She had a bundle of army blankets on her other arm.

“All you girls get them shirts on, you don’t need to be running around naked like that,” Duncan said as Lettie handed them out. Sundy pulled Eli’s buckskin shirt off and laid it across his saddle as she took a cloth shirt and put it on.

Duncan took three shirts to the Salter women and threw a blanket at Y.B. Yoes. He caught it with his one free hand and tried to cover himself against the hot sun.

“Duncan, they called this man here Coon Doolin, you know the name?” Eli asked.

“Yeah, he’s been wanted for murder, robbery, and rape for over three years now. I reckon we get a bonus on him. Who else you got?”

“I’ll find out,” Eli said as he pulled Coon Doolin’s head up.

“What’s the man’s name with the busted face?”

“Go to hell, Injun.”

“Mister, I aim to take you to Fort Smith. I can take you without your hair or with it, you just tell me which way you want.”

“Sage McElliston is what he goes by. I heard a man in Kansas call him Frank.”

“You know that name, Duncan?”

“I heard he was dead. He was ridin with the Youngers for a while, last I heard.”

“You ever seen that fat ass woman before, Duncan?”

“No Eli and I’m kinda glad I didn’t neither. Good God in heaven, look at all that damn lard on her fat ass.”

“Who was she, Coon?” Eli asked.

“Betsy Morton. They called her Sweet Meat.”

“What about that name, Duncan?”

“Never heard of her.”

“Who was the owner here, Coon? I heard that woman call him Lester.”

“Lester Beeman.”

“Damn Eli, now I’ve heard about him. He was wanted in Kansas for raiding, raping, and taking young women and girls for his whores down here in The Territory.”

“What about the one you waylaid out back, you know him?”

“No, never seen him before today. You must have scared the hell plumb out of him. He was running right by me like he didn’t even see me when I laid him out with the barrel of my Colt.”

“See if he’s alive, you sure put a lick on him.”

“You girls get them horses and bring them over to the porch, we’ll get the live ones loaded first, then the dead,” Eli told the girls, who were still consoling the young Indian girl.

“Eli, that one out back is about to come to. I reckon he’ll be able to sit a horse,” Duncan said.

“Let’s get him on one then, along with the others that are living.”

“Eli, what are we gonna do with that big old fat woman laying there? Ain’t no way in hell all of us put together can load her lard ass up on a horse, or a find a horse big enough to haul all that lard!” Duncan told him.

“Marshal Eli, there’s a wagon over yonder next to them trees, behind that corral,” Sundy said as she came back leading some horses.

“Coon, you come with me. If that wagon will roll, we’re gonna hitch a team to it and haul all your asses to Fort Smith to stand in front of Judge Parker,” Eli said as he nudged Coon Doolin with his toe.

“I’m bleeding out my neck, I can’t hitch a team to a wagon,” he whined.

“Then you can ride in back when I take your hair and cut your throat the rest of the way through,” Eli said, walking toward the corral.

“Wait a minute, Marshal,” Coon Doolin yelled as he struggled to roll over, pulling his filthy buckskins up over his dirty ass.

They got the horses hitched to the wagon after Coon told Eli where the harnesses were. Eli told him to climb up on the wagon and back it up to the porch so they could load the fat woman.

Eli went through the stinking trading post, gathering up guns and ammunition, then checking the boxes and sacks behind the bar and in the stinking back room. He had six Winchesters with six boxes of .44-40 and twelve boxes of .45 caliber cartridges. He found the old man’s small stash of money and gold and put it in his pouches.

When he came out, they laid some double boards down side by side about three feet wide and with all of them that could help, they finally rolled the big fat dead woman in the wagon, tying a rope over her to keep her from rolling back out.

“Sundy, what’s that girl’s name, did she say?” Eli asked as they stood on the porch.

“Suh Youngbird, she’s fourteen like me, Marshal. I hope we can take her with us. She talked some and told me her own daddy sold her to that old man that owned this place, for a jug of whiskey.”

“Here, you know what this is?” Eli asked as he handed her a jug of coal oil.

“I sure do, you gonna let me be the one to burn this stinking shit hole of a place down?”

“I sure am, get that Suh girl to help you, just don’t get your own asses burned.”

“We won’t, Marshal. Look, she heard you and she’s grinning.

“Marshal Eli, if the judge lets us all stay with you, will you let Suh stay too? You’re some Indian, so I know you’re not like the rest.”

“She can stay as long as she wants to, Sundy; now set this place afire so no more sorry ass outlaws can come here and get whiskey and women.”

“Yes Sir, Marshal.

“C’mon Suh, we’re gonna make this place look like hell’s done heaved up under it.”

After they had moved away from the front of the trading post, Sundy and Suh came out, pouring two more jugs of coal oil on the porch and lean-to room on the side. Sundy handed Suh a match and she struck it against a porch post and flipped it into the doorway. The flames started slowly, then the hotter the fire became, the faster the place burned.

Coon Doolin was driving the wagon team. The girls each had horses now and the wounded and the dead rode in the wagon bed. They were all covered from the hot sun, even the dead fat woman had a blanket on her, as she rolled and shook in the rough wagon.

They followed the Arkansas River as it wound and wandered its way to the south and east. They stopped twice before dark to water the horses and get a drink for all of them. Eli and Duncan stood in the wagon with rifles as they all went to the river to drink and then mounted up. All except Y. B. Yoes, he was brought water by Annie Salter in a tin cup.

Just before dark, the trail wandered away from the riverbed and up on the high side of the bank. They rode on into the night, not stopping until dawn to drink once more from the river below. That morning, they came to Tulsey Town and drew a big crowd as they passed right through the little river-town without stopping.

Eli gave Sundy and Jessie a few bills and told them to go over to Perryman’s Store and buy some biscuits and cooked meat, enough to last all the way to Fort Smith, over three days away by wagon. The girls were surprised he let them have the money, but felt good that he trusted them to help him and Marshal Duncan. They were five miles downriver, having crossed the K-T Railroad a few miles back, when the girls rode up behind them.

“We got it, Marshal, just like you said for us to,” Sundy grinned as she and Jessie showed him three grub sacks of food.

“Take out a biscuit and a piece of meat and hand it to all of them, then give Coon and his two friends one,” Eli said as he and Duncan helped themselves to a biscuit and salt meat.

They rode slow, stopping to let the horses drink and eat from the patches of grass when they could find it. They kept at it for most of four days, after leaving the trading post in flames.

They arrived in Fort Smith late in the afternoon. Upon arrival, the jailers came out to take custody of the prisoners, while Eli and Duncan kept the five young girls with them. The two marshals led the girls inside the courthouse and had them sit outside Judge Parker’s chambers until court recessed for the day. They sat there for an hour before Eli and Duncan jumped to their feet when the back door to the courtroom opened and a man walked out into the hallway in a long robe.

“Eli, Duncan – what do we have here?” He asked as he looked down the line at the young girls.

“Your Honor, we brought in Y.B. Yoes and the Salter women like you wanted. We also brought back another couple of men too. One by the name of Coon Doolin that Duncan told me was wanted all over Kansas and Missouri. We wanted to meet with you about these young girls that got hooked up in some of the Yoes and Salter’s messes,” Eli tried to explain.

“Bring them in my chambers and tell me their stories, Eli. I’m sure you and Duncan have a reason for them being here.”

They shooed the five girls into the judge’s chambers and as they all stood around in front of his desk, Eli and Duncan told their stories and how they came to be here.

“Judge Parker, I’d take it as a great favor to me if you’d release these girls in my custody until after the trial of the Salters and Y.B. Yoes. I’ll take them over to our boarding house and put them up rent free. I’d even ask my wife and sister to come see you about starting adoption of all these girls,” Eli said, as he stood with his hat in his hand, pleading his case on behalf of the girls.

“Eli, I see no reason why these young girls need to be incarcerated, take them home with you. You and Duncan bring them to see me tomorrow.

“We’ll hear each of their stories spoken from their own mouths, then I’ll decide whether they need to be put in the care of the state or not.

“I have another set of arrest warrants I need served and I want the two of you to bring all the members of this gang in to sit in my court.”

“We’ll be here, Your Honor, and thank you,” Eli said and turned to look at the girls.

He nodded and each of them stepped forward, one at a time to personally thank Judge Parker for letting Eli and Duncan help them.

“You girls go with Marshal Duncan and Marshal Eli. You do as they tell you and I’ll send for you soon. Just be reminded, that sometimes justice according to the law is best not served, for the good of those concerned.”

“Yes Sir,” they all answered, though none of them knew what he meant.

Once outside the courthouse, the girls all scrambled to mount their horses. They were all smiling and looking forward to meeting Marshal Eli’s and Duncan’s family.

Catt, Eva and Juni were taking clothes from the line in the backyard, when they heard the horses coming up their dirt street. They looked to see Eli’s big black horse along with Duncan and five young girls riding across the grass to the barn.

“Eli is here, tell Rose and Mary. Eli and Duncan are here!” Catt yelled as she ran toward the barn.

Eva ran toward the back door and Juni ran to the barn with Catt. They were all screaming and Rose stepped out on the back porch to see what the commotion was about. She screamed too, then Mary ran out to see what all the fuss was about. Mary, Clarissa, and Tin Yu were all running across the backyard toward the barn with the rest of them. When they had all gathered around, Eli and Duncan had the five young girls standing next to them.

“Rose, Mary, we’ve brought these young girls here with the okay from Judge Parker. We’ll keep them here until he calls for them to come talk to him. I have asked that he release them into our custody so we can start adopting them. I want all of you to meet Sundy Salter, Suh Youngbird, Lettie Hill, and Jessie and Sissy Mealer.

“Girls, meet our family. You will learn to love them the way Duncan and I have.”

Rose and Mary grabbed the two youngest and held them tight as the girls cried, they were so happy to have someone care about them. Rose never let Suh get more than an arm’s reach from her as she made her way around to hug and kiss each of them and tell them she loved them already. Mary, Clarissa, Juni, Eva, and Catt were hugging the girls too and then, Tin Yu was in the midst of the hugging and kissing as soon as she ran to them.

When they had all the horses unsaddled, put away and fed, Eli and Duncan followed the others to the house.

They had been finishing up cooking supper when they had seen Eli and Duncan coming. The whole household was laughing and talking and preparing for an even bigger supper, now that they had new family members to care for.

When Jefferson came home from his long day at the courthouse, he informed Eli and Duncan that Judge Parker wanted to see both of them in his chambers early and he also wanted to see the five girls before the morning court session. He told them Judge Parker was in a good mood, when he spoke of the girls.

The whole family was up early the next morning, getting the girls dressed in some of Tin Yu and Juni’s old clothes that had been put away since they’d began to finally put on weight. With the two-seater wagon hitched to the team and all the women and girls of the household loaded, Eli, Duncan and Jefferson escorted them to the court house. Jefferson went to Judge Parker’s chambers first, then immediately waved Eli and Duncan into the chambers with him.

“Good morning, Your Honor,” Eli and Duncan spoke.

“Good morning, Marshals. I have four warrants here. You may be gone a few weeks on these. I received a dispatch from Lieutenant Colonel Travis at Fort Supply, up near the Panhandle. Seems there are hordes of rustlers and outlaws using the strip to attack the Texas cattle drives, then they sell the cattle off to the cavalry or the Indians.

“He sent me these four names, gathered by his scouts, as the men most responsible for heading up the rustling and killing out there. I want these men brought to stand before me as a show of jurisdiction over all Indian Territory and to send a warning to others that may seek to join these outlaws.

“We WILL bring justice to No Man’s Land.

“The Comanche known as Bear Sixkiller is the one considered the liaison between the Indians and the rustlers. They raid the small towns in Texas, kill the whites, steal their gold and money, then pay to have the cattle herds driven to the Indian camps down near the Texas border, where they’re fighting the cavalry hand and fist.

“Lieutenant Colonel Travis has all his men down south, fighting The Red River War with the Comanche, Arapahoe, and Kiowa. He’s requested U.S. Marshals be sent to stop these men. No Man’s Land is under my jurisdiction, and these men are using it as their safe haven; we must bring this lawlessness to an end.”

Judge Parker gave them the warrants for the arrest of the Comanche, Bear Sixkiller, along with Moss Stoner, J.D. ‘Jed’ Yount and Elsworth Dawkins. There were no pictures, but there were wanted posters of the three white men, with descriptions of all four.

“Judge, they may not take to being arrested when we get there, if they’re all this bad,” Duncan said, already worried that Eli may take it upon himself to skin some heads.

“I’m sure you and Marshal Crow will carry out your duties to the best of your abilities, in any event. You two have the respect of all the law in Fort Smith, as well as my own utmost respect. Whatever it takes, I want both of you back here with me. Stop in at Fort Supply on the way and see Lieutenant Colonel Travis, he may know more by the time you get there.”

“Yes Sir, Your Honor.” They both spoke.

Eli and Duncan walked out to visit with the family, before leaving out.

“Mary, you, Clarissa, and Rose keep helping each other. Catt, Eva, you both have come to be very capable members of our family. I ask that all of you keep sharing the work and making our family proud. Juni, you and Tin Yu have come to be of great help in our family and we love you both,” Eli spoke to them, as he hugged each of them, even the five new girls that cried because he was leaving so soon.

“Eli, we’ll keep the family together, we’ll all work together and each of us will teach the others what we can, to make us stronger. You and Duncan take care of your duties, knowing that we’ll all be here waiting on your return,” Rose spoke for them all.

“Tin Yu, you’re now a woman – my woman, and I love you like I love all my women. I’m proud of you, we’ve come a long way in a few months,” he told her as she cried on his shoulder, while he lifted her up to him.

“Tin Yu glad Eli love her. I help with all the new girls. Tin Yu know how they feel.”

“Jefferson ... Duncan and I are depending on you to help sway Judge Parker. We want full custody of these girls,” Eli said as he and Jefferson Whitehead shook hands. He looked down at his short friend, who was much of a man in his eyes. He and Rose Elizabeth were as happy as any two people in Fort Smith. They were in love.

For this alone, Eli loved the little man like a brother.

Duncan went down the line, hugging and saying his goodbye to each of them.

Juni Moon cried with big, sobbing heaves of her body as he hugged her.

Mary and Clarissa both pulled her to their huge bosoms and held her as the men left the courthouse.

Having already packed fresh clothes and grub sacks the night before, once again the two friends headed across the Arkansas River into Indian Territory. Judge Parker had even expressed some concern on this mission. He’d always told them to bring them back alive. He’d never given them the authority to do what it took.

“Duncan, how far you reckon it is, out to No Man’s Land?”

“I figure we were just about that far when we were over in Omega, but just south of there a mite.”

“Then we’re a week away from getting there?”

“Yep, I figure we are anyway. We can cut away from the Arkansas to the south some and maybe cut off most of a day with a straight line.”

“Have you been this way before?”

“Yep, that time I went out there, I cut across. I know some landmarks to look for.”

“Then let’s cut south and ride long each day. I feel like this one is wearing on the Judge a bit and we need to put him at ease.”

“I agree, Eli, he’s sure set on bringing law and order to this wild-ass land.”

“Yep, he sure is and we’re gonna do our part too. Duncan, you reckon you got the legs loosened up on that horse?”

“Yeah, let ‘em run, Eli. We’ll make good time today, then about this time tomorrow, we’ll be in heavy brush country for a day or so.”

They let their horses have their heads as they found a fast lope they wanted. They rode like that for most of an hour, before the horses settled into a slow lope.

They came to a creek and let the horses drink, but not letting them fill their bellies. They walked their horses for a few miles as they talked, letting them cool down.

“Eli, you reckon we’ll have to kill some of the bad men out there?”

“Duncan, I never really think about that. I just do what needs to be done at the time. I’d kinda like to bring them all back peaceably, if they’d just throw out their hands and let us hook ‘em up. I don’t reckon they’re the sort to do that though, do you?”

“I reckon you’re right, Eli. Sometimes I wonder what gets in a man’s head that makes him want to be so bad and want to rob and rape and kill others, don’t you?”

“Never thought much about it, Duncan. I don’t let things like that bother me. If a man wants to try and be bad, then I reckon there’ll always be men like us that’ll come after them.”

“Yeah, I reckon you’re right. I sure am glad I’m not a bad man and you’re after my ass. I’d be the first one to throw down my gun and let you hook me up to a shackle.”

“I don’t really set out to be that mean to ‘em, Duncan, but seems like they always do things that brings out my pa’s fightin’ blood in me.”

“Yeah, I done seen it come out more’n a few times, Eli. Looks like sooner or later, these bad men would hear about you and want to do better.”

“Some folks just don’t care, Duncan. They’d walk past what they have, just to take something from others.”

“Yeah, I guess you’re right.”

They rode in silence for miles, on into the late afternoon as the sun turned red on the horizon. The trail was open and there was light to see by, even after sundown. They rode on into the night until they came to another shallow creek that ran beside the K-T Railroad.

“We better settle for the night, Duncan. We’ll have our horses stove up by tomorrow if we don’t.”

“I’m about ready myself, Eli. I could use one of Mary’s big cat-head biscuits about now.”

“Me too, let’s ride off the trail a ways and find us an open place to rest up a few hours.”

They took the saddles off their horses and rubbed them down with dry grass after they’d let them drink again. They hobbled them next to their bedrolls, and let them have a small bag of oats, before opening their grub sacks. After each of them ate a couple of the big biscuits loaded with fried salt meat, they stretched out with their heads on their saddles and slept for a few hours.

The sky was barely a light gray in the east the next morning, and they had already ridden miles from the camp by the creek.

Three more days they rode long into the night, after rising early to ride all day, stopping only long enough to relieve themselves, get a drink, and water their horses.

On the morning of the fifth day, after rising before dawn once more, they came in sight of Camp Supply, which lay in the shallow valley between Beaver River and Wolf Creek.

“Who goes there? Stand down and be recognized,” came the shout from the sentry at the main gate, as they rode to the entrance.

“U.S. Marshals Duncan and Crow, out of Fort Smith, Arkansas. We’re here to see Lieutenant Colonel Travis,” Eli shouted back, after they had dismounted.

“Lead your horses through the gate, Marshals. Colonel Travis is in his quarters.”

“Corporal, who can we see about having our horses fed and watered? We’ve pushed them hard for five days,” Duncan asked the man who was leading them across the open grounds of the stockade.

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Fort Smith, Arkansas November 2, 1875 Before Duncan had completely recovered from the injury to his head, he was laid up with pneumonia. He’d gotten caught in a heavy downpour and arrived home wet and chilled. He spent two weeks recovering, with the first week spent in bed the whole time. Eli and Moses were split up again, since they were short-handed. “Eli, which way you headed this time? It looks like I’m headed up toward Kansas where you ‘n Duncan come from when he got whacked on his...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 105

Oklahoma Territory Crow Ridge Cattle Company August 4, 1889 Jon David, Amanda, Sissy, and Analisa told Eli yesterday that they needed to be at the office early this morning. They let Chane and Jon Jr. spend the night with Shawn, Karly Jo, Clara, and Maryanne. Eli stepped out on the front porch earlier than usual that morning since he had all his Little Bucks here for the day. He drank the last of the coffee from his mug and stood looking down at the river before turning to look over toward...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 15

Doctor Harrod came out just a few minutes after Eli and Jefferson walked into the lobby and sat down. They both jumped up as soon as he came through the door, hurrying to meet him. “Doc?” Eli said as he looked at the young doctor. “Duncan is fine. He’s sleeping now and you’ll both be able to see him in a few hours. I drained the wound where the injury had become infected. There was a bone fragment just as I thought. It was wedged in a clump of hair that had pushed into the tiny skull...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 35

Indian Territory June 15, 1884: “Eli, look at all them dark clouds down yonder south of here. I sure hope we don’t run into any bad weather on the way home,” Duncan said as they rode on into the late afternoon after getting Joe patched up. “I’ve been watching them too, Duncan. I hope they’re between us and home, I’d hate to know our place was being hammered by storms.” By nightfall, the dark storm clouds had moved east of where they were heading, but the air was still damp and heavy like...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 14

With the arraignments and hearings coming up for the criminals that Eli, Duncan and Moses had arrested in the past weeks, they were all required to be in the courthouse most of each day for a week. After that, they were told by Judge Parker they needed to be on call for another week as the prosecutors, lawyers, and public defenders obtained information from them. Though this was a rough two weeks for the three of them, who were used to being out in the open. They did enjoy their time at...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 19

The next morning early, the three had ridden no more than half a mile from camp, when Eli pulled his horse back. “We got riders coming in, hold up and get your guns ready,” he told them. They were suddenly surrounded by sixteen members of a cavalry patrol, handguns drawn and hammers backed. “Stand your position men, United States Cavalry here. You’re trespassing on government property,” a big sergeant in front of the troop yelled. “Mister, you best put them pistols away before we shoot...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 17

As the three rode back to the courthouse, they felt good about the girls going to learn about nursing. They felt good about getting to ride out together again too. Jefferson had their warrants, since Judge Parker was already in court for the day. “Eli, this big horse wants to run some, let’s get stretched out and make some miles. It sure does feel good to be out here again,” Duncan said. They poked their horses up to a good hard gallop and let them run for miles before they pulled them...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 20

They left the courthouse and headed straight home to see the family. Duncan, Moses, and Eli could hardly wait to see their kids. Moses was extremely proud of his and Suh’s boy. They’d named him Pike Longfeather Kidd in honor of Moses’ father. Duncan and Eli’s young’uns were seven, and the two marshals could hardly wait to get home from a trip. Pike was about six months younger than the other boys, but he felt he could do anything the others could – the other boys expected as much of...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 6

It took another hour to get from the high knoll over to the far side of Fayetteville, but they were at the old trading post at last. Eli helped both women to the ground. They were about frozen from being on the trail most of five days. He tied their horses to the hitching rail and rapped on the solid wood door. “ELI IS HERE,” he heard a scream and the door swung wide as Tin Yu, Catt and Eva ran out to him, nearly knocking him over backwards as they grabbed him in a hug, jumping up and...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 11

The next morning, when Rose and Mary came down to the kitchen to start breakfast, Jefferson already had a warm fire built in the cookstove. As they filled the big coffee pot with coffee and water, they heard a noise on the back porch. Jefferson stepped to the back door to see the two nannies and the two kids on the porch, with the billy standing in the yard, looking up at them. Corinne and Lorene were next down the stairs, carrying the two babies, since they had taken it upon themselves to...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 22

The three marshals rode for two more days, pushing their horses, keeping them fed and watered, as they made their way toward the Cherokee Outlet, known all over this part of Indian Territory as no man’s land. The third day on the trail after they’d met the cavalry patrol at the mouth of the Chikaskia where it emptied into the Salt Fork of the Arkansas, they met another patrol headed east. Abraham Walker was the scout. “Marshal Moses Kidd, you have made good time. Lieutenant Carpenter is...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 9

The trip back to Fort Smith took three days longer than the trip over to the Panhandle. Twice along the way, Eli killed a small deer late in the day, so they could cook it all night and be gone at daylight, eating the cooked meat along the way. The rest of the time, they only stopped long enough to feed and water the horses and relieve themselves. The prisoners were left to their own devices, as for relieving themselves. While riding on the boards of the rough, bouncing wagon bed, they...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 78

The travelers broke camp at daybreak after an early breakfast. They were still most of a day’s travel from Pecan Ridge and the MacEagle brothers wanted their new friends to visit the Cheyenne Village and meet their grandfather on the way. The Young Bucks and the Crow girls knew White Elk and they were excited about going to the Cheyenne village to meet with him again. They were even more excited to be there when he welcomed his grandsons home after they’d graduated from the private boarding...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 28

Saturday, May 3, 1884 Cherokee Lands Indian Territory Iron Hammer’s Lodge “Eli Crow, I see you have returned and now you bring all the marshals and little Crows to see me. I see my own brothers, the Barkleys, with you. How am I so honored this day?” “Iron Hammer, I came with my friends and young’uns to tell you of a cattle deal we made in Kansas City this week. My little Crows have gifts for your little Hammers and me and my friends are always happy to sit with Iron Hammer and his brothers...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 32

Tulsa, Indian Territory Crow Ridge Cattle Company June 2, 1884 The big house on the hill was full of happy talk as they gathered in the kitchen to talk and catch up on the latest trip into the Territory. Clarissa was typing on her typewriter as fast as she could to keep up with all that was said. She was getting faster at typing and this was the first time she didn’t make notes to type from later. They let the ten youngest travelers talk first, each of them telling their version of the...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 26

A week after the marshals returned from their last trip, Eli rode across the river to Tulsa with Little Eli and the other boys and girls. The young’uns thought they were almost grown now, getting to ride the big high stepping horses all the way across the river with him and going to the post office at Perryman’s. He gave them enough money to buy some candy and even some gum, for the first time in their lives. The boys saw some baseball bats, gloves, and balls and each of them wanted baseball...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 46

December 27, 1884 Tulsa Depot Tulsa, Indian Territory Jon David and Joe were at the train depot when the train pulled in from Kansas City. Jon David had gotten a telegraph message that there would be twenty-one, young Negro women aboard the train arriving on the twenty-seventh. There were only two Pullman cars and a caboose connected to that train. The preacher from the Negro church in Kansas City had made the trip down to Tulsa, escorting the young women personally, since the young women...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 39

Indian Territory October 5, 1884: As the light of dawn began to spread across the plains, they harnessed the mules and hitched the teams to the wagons. They were all ready to meet the others at Pecan Ridge Cattle Company and start the pecan harvest. They saw how the nearby trees were loaded with pecans and knew this pecan crop was going to be a big one. Eli and Moses had been out before dawn, riding the western perimeter. Duncan and Joe had also been riding the eastern perimeter behind...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 107

They did make that trip in September. Eli wanted the family to visit their hotel in Santa Fe then come back through Albuquerque on their week-long trip. They even made it down to Las Cruces to stay two nights at that hotel before heading back home. Eli knew the women would be having babies in the spring and he was already planning trips to Kansas City after the babies were born. In April of 1890, Eli took his Cherokee brothers, Iron Hammer, Iron Hand and Iron Eyes, with their families for a...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 101

Tulsa, Indian Territory Sunday, July 28, 1889 While Moses, Isaac and Little Eli were loading the horses, the engineer yelled and waved to Eli again just as he stepped down from the Pullman carrying Little Eli’s traveling bag. “Marshal, if we’re gonna make a fast run down to Abilene like you want, the fireman will need some help from your bunch to keep up the steam,” he yelled above the noise of the locomotive. “We’ll ride up here with you. I want to keep this this thing red hot and smoking...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 31

Miranda turned and sat sideways on the top rail as she watched Little Eli run over to get on his horse. Lee Yu, Lilly Beth, Kia, and Michi were all waiting for him. They all waved to her when they saw her looking. She felt like getting off the fence right then and grabbing Eli Crow. She was so in love with him and his family. No matter if it was right in the middle of the cattle pens, and right in front of all the men, she could have thrown him to the ground and loved him right here. They...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 76

Across the small hotel dining room, there were three well-dressed men wearing tall white hats, drinking coffee and smoking fat cigars. One of them moved closer to sit at the table nearest the Young Bucks. “Excuse me please, but did I hear you say you have an exceptionally fast horse bred from Cheyenne horse blood?” The man asked from behind Eli. Eli turned to look back at the man, “Yes Sir, we sure do. He’s never been beaten in about thirty races,” he told the man. “We’re here to meet the...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 27

After their meal, they rounded the young’uns up and headed them back upstairs. The elevator had to make two trips to get them all to the top floor. By the time they had the younger ones settled and into bed, it was after ten o’clock and they had a busy day planned for tomorrow. The baseball game started at one o’clock and they were scheduled to play two games before dark. The grownups talked for another hour before heading off to their separate rooms and to bed. They still wanted to spend...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 110

“Trapper, there are at least two dozen turkey-buzzards circling overhead back west of here,” Micah told him as they rode north. Trapper and the others turned their horses to look back to where Micah was pointing. “Looks like we could have a fresh one for you men to check out. Let’s get on over there,” Trapper said and spanked his horse with his reins. They topped a small rise to see at least two dozen more buzzards on the ground tearing into a dead calf. When they rode up, the buzzards...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 111

After their performance on their first assignment in Colorado back in October of 1896, the six Young Bucks’ names became well known at the Western District U.S. Marshal’s Service office in Kansas City. During the next two years they were called upon time and time again to settle disputes. They were sent to the Missouri border town of Fort Scott, Kansas, to help settle a railroad union dispute that had already gotten out of hand with clashes of violence by the time they arrived. With strong...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 37

“We’ve never been up this way before, Daddy. Where are we going?” Little Eli asked. “We’re going up the Arkansas to the rough country where the Pawnee and Osage Tribes join lands. We’ll camp on the Arkansas and we’ll have our own school for you boys out here.” They had crossed the Arkansas River in a northwesterly direction, then followed along the west side of the river until mid-day. The boys were told to bring nothing but jerky in their grub bags, they were going to survive on what the...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 98

Kansas City, Missouri July 21, 1889 Eli and Isaac were up and dressed, after washing up from a wild time the night before when they’d had champagne sprayed all over them and made love on the balcony. They were sitting out on the balcony again, looking down on the sprawling city below as people began to stir and fill the streets. The girls came out laughing and talking about the fun, crazy time they’d had last night. They were bathed, dressed and ready for a day of shopping and sightseeing...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 69

Upon their return to Tulsa from racing Cheyenne at Vinita, Little Eli had met with Bill and Jack Robertson that day, asking them about making a lightweight saddle just for Cheyenne. After measuring and fitting him with the special built saddletree and pad, they made a saddle with no high pommel and no saddle horn. There were no fenders, just leather straps that supported the small brass stirrups. This saddle was half the weight of the working and pleasure saddles they used on the ranch. As...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 18

October 1, 1881 While Eli was getting his latest prisoners turned over to the jailers, Jefferson left the courthouse through the back door and ran out to saddle his horse. He rode hard up the back way, cutting across an open lot and through someones yard as he raced home. He didn’t take time to put his horse in the barn, he knew Eli would see it anyway. He jerked the saddle off and turned his horse in the cow pen. When Eli rode into the yard later, it was almost sundown and there was no one...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 102

When they arrived in Durant, the sun had been up a few hours and Eli herded them to the hotel. The fireman and engineer went with them as the local railroad workers filled the reservoirs with water and oiled the locomotive for them. This was the first chance Eli had for more than a few words with his Bucks since they’d boarded the caboose in Abilene. Eli and Moses sat across the table from them in the dining room and looked at each of them as they talked to their brothers and their...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 36

“Kit, would you and Ruby want to wear buckskins like we do?” Caleb asked as they all talked, ate, and became friends. “We sure do. Marshal Eli told us we could, and said he’d even give us our own horse,” Kit answered. “We’ll have to round up our horses in the morning and see how many we have now. Daddy may have to get more horses from our friend, Iron Hammer. He’s the main man in the Cherokee Tribe that owns all the lands around us,” Little Eli said. “Momma told me we could all go down to...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 42

Crow Ridge Cattle Company Tulsa, Indian Territory Thanksgiving Day November 27,1884: “Here come the Buffalo Soldiers, they’re crossing the river now!” Isaac yelled as he jumped off the back porch, headed toward the barn where the men, the girls, and the rest of the Bucks were gathered. The women had run the men and younger ones from the house so they could finish cooking and get the dinner ready. This was to be the biggest feast and biggest celebration they’d had to date. The men, the...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 33

When they finished unloading the flatcar, they headed back to the house. Smitty, Leon, James, and Albert were on the wagon and Eli drove. “Smitty, I need to have a talk with you. Want to walk down to the river with me?” Eli asked. “Sure Eli, let me get a drink from the pump and I’ll be ready.” “I’ll meet you out front.” Eli went through the house and into the kitchen where the women were fixing supper. “Corinne, come go with me,” Eli said. “Eli, I’m not sure about this now. Can we wait...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 5

After an early start in the cold hours of morning, they rode hard and steady all day, stopping to relieve themselves twice and eat from the grub sack. They made Kansas City, Missouri late in the day as the sun was sinking behind the cold flat horizon, across the river in Kansas. They stopped at a big fancy hotel and registered as Eli and Rose Crow. The desk man was hesitant at first to let the two Half-Breeds stay in his hotel, but saw the Deputy U.S. Marshal badge and the Indian Police...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 62

“ELI! You’re back. Did you get the last one? Dal said you thought there was a woman with them too,” Sam Connor greeted his grandson when he came through the back door, stomping the mud off his feet. Eli was soaked, his buckskins wet and clinging to his body, his moccasins filled with mud and water. He hadn’t even put his long coat on when he left Young’s Store. The back of his coat was shot out anyway. “They’re all taken care of, Grandpa. How’s Grandma? She alright after all this?” He...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 34

When they reached the river’s edge, Kit laid the fuses and caps on a stump. Ruby handed Kit a stick of dynamite and picked up a cap and a short fuse. Eli and the others watched as she inserted the end of a fuse into the open end of the blasting cap, then put her fingers about an inch from the end of the brass. She stuck this short end of the exposed brass into her mouth with the extra fuse trailing down her chin. They could see her straining her jaws as she bit down on the brass, clamping it...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 97

Eli had planned their trip himself and since he wanted them to stay a few days in Boones Crossing without being in a rush, he decided to take his dad’s advice and travel to Kansas City first then come back to Boones Crossing. Though he and Isaac didn’t wear their guns, they did have their knives on their hips, with their guns packed in their traveling bags. Both were dressed in buckskins and their girls dressed in finery like the other women traveling on the train. They ate one meal in the...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 109

Saturday October 3, 1896 Crow Valley, Oklahoma Territory “Let me see that map again, Deuce,” Ezra said. He stood next to Eli and Isaac as they looked at the map. They had just gotten their first orders as Deputy United States Marshals two days ago, and the six of them were excited as they saddled up. They’d packed the night before and already had their two packsaddles loaded with tents, food and supplies for at least a two-week stay once they reached their destination. They were being sent...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 56

Dal Hopkins had been half asleep, half-awake as he worried about his town. He heard a man whisper something behind him in the cell. Was he dreaming? Could it really be? HE KNEW THAT VOICE... He’d know that voice in the middle of a windstorm on the plains or in a howling snowstorm on top of a mountain. No matter where on earth he was, he would know that voice... Eli was here. He knew it was him! How – he didn’t know, but that was Eli Crow behind him, he’d bet his life on it. “Marshal,...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 84

Eli knew he had a battle on his hands convincing the mommas of his sons and daughters that his plan was the best way to keep the Bucks, the Crow girls and the rest of them from having babies and still let them spend time with their friends. He figured the best way to handle this was to get them all at once and get it over with. Miranda, Clarissa, Tin Yu, Catt, Eva, Rose, Sissy, Suh, Juni, and Grandma were gathered together out away from the others. Eli wanted all of them to listen to what he...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 99

Boones Crossing, Kansas July 23, 1889 Little Eli, Kit, Ruby, and Isaac arrived in Boones Crossing early, making the short trip from Kansas City in only a matter of two hours. They had accompanied their friends to the train station the evening before and watched as they boarded the train to Colorado. This was a tearful parting of new friends with all of them vowing to meet again soon. The McInnis sisters especially took it hard, sobbing as they sat on the train and waved out the window to...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 108

Crow Ridge September 1, 1896 “Come on in, Ezra. Your dad and I wanted to talk to you before you head back to Crow Valley,” Rose told her son. Jefferson was sitting up in bed with the covers pulled to his waist. “Dad, are you feeling any better?” Ezra asked as he walked over to sit at his bedside and lay his hand on top Jefferson’s right hand. “I feel better today, Son. This has actually been one of my better days in the past few months. “Dad, I suppose I’ve always taken for granted that...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 41

When the Buffalo Soldiers rolled in from Little Tree with empty wagons, all of them jumped in and loaded them as quickly as possible. There were fifteen more loads to ship after they held back the last three loaded wagons to take to Tulsa. Willis turned fifteen of his men right back around, telling them to get on back so they could all head over to Tulsa and start learning to be oil well drillers. The next morning early, Eli and Jon David were sitting by the fire outside, drinking coffee...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 92

Eli knew he had to get over to the women as soon as he could. He saw them laughing and talking with Analisa, pointing now and then toward where he stood. Even Sissy, Miranda, and Grandmother were huddled with the young Mexican woman, whispering and laughing. When Catt and Eva pulled her aside, they were laughing aloud and Eli knew it was time to go. “I see all of you have met Analisa. I hope you’ll make her welcome. I’ve asked her to work for us when we get back to Tulsa,” Eli told them when...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 12

Two weeks earlier, when Duncan and Eli had split as they arrived in Tulsa, Duncan felt alone as he rode north toward Kansas. Though he’d been a deputy marshal for over two years when he met Eli, he’d grown to like hid friend so well that he missed his company and the friendship they shared together on their trips into the Territory. He rode into southern Kansas two days later, after riding late like he and Eli often did when they first met. He wanted to hurry and do his law business, then...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 29

The men of Crow Ridge Cattle Company loaded the second trainload of cattle bound for Kansas City and knew there wasn’t time to load another fifteen cars before dark. The first trainload would have to make it to the next sidetrack, near the Kansas state line, before the two empty trains could travel on down to Tulsa. They made plans to start loading at daylight the next day. The empty trains would arrive during the night and have to lay over. They gathered around after the first day of...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 71

The Waco Kid never raised his head as he reached out to pick up a stick and thrash it across the bedroll nearest him. “Get your asses up, we got a score to settle this morning and I’m ready to get started!” he said loudly. The other men began to stir in their bedrolls and The Waco Kid rolled over to sit up. He had yet to look up as he pulled his boots on, then picked up his two pistols and shoved them down in his holsters. He stretched his arms over his head, wincing at the pain in his ribs,...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 73

Crow Ridge March 29, 1889 The family was up before dawn to see the Crow girls and the Young Bucks off. Even their younger brothers and sisters were up. Eli cornered Little Eli and Ezra as soon as they came downstairs and pulled them aside. “I need to give you men something. I’ve been wanting to tell you about this, but never felt like it was the right time until now. “Eli, back when you told me that you Bucks wanted to have a place of your own and still wanted it to be near each other, I...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 53

Union Station Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania June 19, 1885 Eli had been on the train for four days when he arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They had an hour layover there, one of many layovers they’d had on his long train ride from Indian Territory. After he’d found the toilets to relieve himself, he sat inside the huge train station and watched the hundreds of people coming and going. He’d never seen this many people in one place ever before, not even in Kansas City at the ballpark. He kept...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 30

“This is absolutely beautiful. I just love the way the houses and barns look with all the pecan trees around,” Miranda said. “It does look good and shady back in them trees. We need to plant some pecan trees over at the other place to shade it a little, I reckon,” Eli agreed. “You boys get you some clean buckskins and go back behind the barn and get a bath,” Eli told the six boys. “Miranda, would you help Sissy get the girls back there and get them bathed?” “I will, but first we’re going...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 48

There were snow flurries blowing in the wind, with a light blanket already covering the ground when the Bucks started out the next morning after saying their goodbyes to the family. They were dressed in their buckskins with their union suits underneath and heavy boiler overalls over their buckskins. Each had a leather fur-lined cap pulled down over their head and ears. They wore wool scarves backed with flannel over their faces, leaving only a slit with their eyes exposed as they rode...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 13

Eli and Duncan headed out of town with their wagon load of prisoners. Bud Parkins drove the wagon, Duncan and Eli rode their horses. “Eli, I already like this horse pretty good. He’s as tall and long legged as that big stud you got.” “Yep, you got a good’un, Duncan.” They turned south at the creek crossing, and rode right by Noonan’s ranch. “You could at least let me see my wife before you take me back,” Noonan said. “I’ll go see if she wants to see you... “Duncan, you keep them headed...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 89

“What can I do for you, Mister? You look to be part Indian. Are you?” The man behind the window at the train station said as Eli walked up to the window to send a telegraph message back to Little Tree. “I need to send a message over to Little Tree, Texas. Can you do that for me?” Eli said, ignoring the man’s remark. “I sure can. Who is it for and what name do you want on it?” “Put my name on it, Marshal Eli Crow. Send it to Hoke at the livery. Tell him I need him to get word to my folks at...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 67

“Son, that was some race. We heard what Parkman’s jockey said. You did the right thing holding Cheyenne back, then letting him run away with the race after they’d tried to run him down like that. You’d think Sam Parkman would know better by now,” Eli said as he and Joe stood beside Little Eli when their picture was made. “Did you win big again, Dad?” Little Eli asked, knowing by his smile that he did. “We all won big on that race. I already have another big bet placed on the last race...

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