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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 fracture, causing pressure on his brain. The fracture is very small and he’s very lucky he wasn’t hit harder or he’d be either dead or paralyzed by now.”

“Doctor, we thank you so much. You mean Duncan will be back like he was, or will he always have a messed up eye and hand?”

“By the time you and Jefferson go in to see him, his face and hand will be close to normal. It will take him another week or so of healing, but after a few weeks of rest he’ll be able to return to riding his horse and doing whatever it is he does as a U.S. Marshal.”

“Doctor, what do we owe you for this? Whatever it is, I’ll be glad to pay you.”

“Marshal Crow, Judge Parker told me he would settle with me later. I owe that man for everything I have and for everything I am. He’ll not get a bill on this and neither will you or Duncan.”

“What about the Sisters here at the hospital, will they need to be paid?”

“Marshal, I’m going to suggest you give them a donation. They will appreciate that and put the money to good use.”

“Thank you, Doctor, we’ll do that. When will Duncan be able to get up and walk out of here?”

“He could leave as soon as he wakes up, but I’d rather let him stay the night, just to be sure. When does the next riverboat leave for Fort Smith?”

“They said at ten tomorrow morning, will we need to catch a later one?”

“You, Jefferson, and Duncan will be there earlier than that, Marshal, you’ll see.”

Eli shook hands with Doctor Harrod and hugged him with his free arm. He could have kissed the man, he was so happy.

When they were alone in the lobby once more, Eli turned to Jefferson.

“Jefferson, I’m going back down to the leather shop and tell the Robertsons to get packed. We’re all going to Fort Smith tomorrow.”

“I’ll see you back here, Eli. I know you can’t wait to see Duncan too.”

“I’ll be back shortly. If they let you in before I get back, tell him about our deal on the leather shop. Duncan will like that as much as me.”

Eli was as happy as he’d been the day he and Rose stopped at Boones Crossing, Kansas, to see Mary and ask her to be his wife.

He saw the heavy wagon sitting right in front of the small leather shop and was almost in a run down the long slope by the time he got there.

He walked in the front door and saw the two brothers struggling with the heavy sewing machines. There were two that both men together could barely lift above knee high.

“Let me help, we’ll get these machines loaded. We’ll leave at ten tomorrow morning as planned,” Eli said as he grabbed hold of the heavy cast iron sewing machine.

They loaded that one and slid it over to the side then went back to get the other one.

“Marshal, we’ll be at the docks early tomorrow to load these machines on the boat. Do you think there will be men there to help?” Mr. Robertson asked.

“I saw some men there the other day, loading and unloading goods and wooden barrels that took two men to lift. You hire them, I’ll pay them when I get to the docks.”

“Marshal, you got us feeling good about going upriver to start a new business there in Fort Smith. We talked about it some more and even Gramps is having fun talking about us being up there now,” Jack told him.

“It’ll be good, if I didn’t think so, I wouldn’t tell you that. We bought that land up in Tulsey Town that will soon be called Tulsa. We come right to the river too and we can open another leather shop up there as soon as you’re ready.”

“We’ll have to make some money first, to be able to buy the new machines we’d need up there,” Bill Robertson told him.

“How much money are we talking about?”

“These two cost over two hundred apiece and we’ll need all new cutters and tables too.”

“Two hundred for the both of them?”

“Each, that’s a lot, but they last forever if they’re kept oiled and tightened.”

“Where do you get them?”

“From a place in St. Louis, Gramps has the address.”

“Good, we’ll need to make plans to buy them. We’ll need a leather shop in Tulsa.”

“We’ll see you tomorrow morning at the docks, Marshal Crow,” Jack told him.

Eli walked into the lobby and didn’t see Jefferson at first. He was about to walk through the door the doctor had used, when Jefferson came from the hallway.

“I was about to go look for you.”

“I was using the toilet facilities, you should see what they have. You can use the facility inside and water takes it outdoors into a tank.”

“What if a man has to shit?”

“That goes out also, Eli. We need to look into this; this would eliminate all of us going to the toilet outdoors.”

“Jefferson, I like that idea, find out who we can get the plans from and how to install such an indoor toilet.”

“I will, Eli, we can install them in all our rent houses too.”

“I told you I wanted to be on the front end of the new changes. If we have indoor toilets, we can have indoor water also. See what we can find out about this, Jefferson, and get us some plans. I want us to always try new things and new ways.”

“Marshal Crow?” the Sister called to him as he and Jefferson talked.

“Yes Ma’am, is Duncan awake?”

“Yes, he has already asked for you and Mr. Jefferson, please follow me.”

The Sister took them down the hallway, turned a corner, and there were doors on both sides all the way to the other end of another long white hallway.

Eli looked into one room and saw six beds with people lying in most of them.

The Sister stopped at another door and motioned them inside. There were six beds in this room, and Duncan was sitting on the side of the first bed on the left.

“Duncan, you got your head shaved and wrapped again I see,” Eli said as he walked to his friend and shook his hand.

“Eli, I may just get Juni to keep it shaved, I’m beginning to like it now.”

“Duncan, it’s good to see you sitting up and smiling. The doctor told us you would wake up and be better soon. How do you feel?” Jefferson asked as he shook with him.

“Jefferson, if my horse was outside, I’d get on him and ride back to Fort Smith. My head don’t even hurt. They showed me a mirror and my eye is alright. I can hear good and look at my hand,” Duncan smiled and showed them he was almost well already, flexing his fingers then making a fist.

“We’ll be at the steamboat docks early, Duncan, it leaves at ten tomorrow. We’ll have some friends going back with us too,” Eli told him and grinned at Jefferson. They knew Duncan was going to be surprised by this story too.

“Who, Eli? You ain’t done got some more women have you?”

“No, we have three men with a leather shop that makes saddles and harnesses.”

“Eli, do we really?

“Jefferson, is he telling me another tale?”

“He’s telling the truth, Duncan. We made the deal this morning and they’ve already loaded their sewing machines, tools and leather on the wagon to take to the docks,” Jefferson said.

“I need to stop sleeping so much while all this new stuff is going on. Eli, where do you come up with all these things at?” Duncan laughed and looked at his two friends.

“Tell him about the indoor toilet you used, Jefferson, he’ll never believe that.”

“Indoor toilet? Now I know you both are pulling a good one. Never heard of such a thing.”

“They have them right here in the hospital and all the waste goes right out in an underground tank to be pumped out later.”

“What in the world will people think of next? Who ever heard of using the toilet in a house? Other than a slop jar, that is.” Duncan was feeling good and it showed.

“Eli has already said that if we put them in our houses, we’ll bring the water inside our houses too so we don’t have to carry it in from the pump.”

“Would you just look at what all has come from me getting a bump knocked on my head? If this don’t beat all.”

They were laughing and talking so loud a woman in a white dress, white hat, and white apron came in and told them they’d have to be quiet or leave, they were disturbing the other patients.

“Can we take Duncan outside?” Eli asked.

“No, he can’t leave his room this soon after surgery. Just visit and keep it quieter.”

“Yes Ma’am,” Eli said.

She did relent, and give permission to let them walk Duncan up and down the hallway. He was ready to run, he felt so good. Doctor Harrod came back to see him while they were walking. He was even more pleased by Duncan’s progress. They walked down to the office where Eli asked to speak to the Sister in charge.

Eli had already counted five thousand dollars out of the money in his clothes sack. He handed the Sister the money and thanked her for what they’d done for his friend.

“Ma’am, I just wanted you to know how much this means to us. Duncan is my friend and we have many friends back in Fort Smith that thank you too. Doctor Harrod told me you would take a gift, but wouldn’t let me pay you for your services. We thank you.”

“Marshal Eli Crow, we here at Charity Hospital thank you and we thank Doctor Harrod for coming all this way to visit us and help your friend, Mr J.P. Duncan,” she said and smiled, raking the money off her desk into a big drawer.

“Sister, if you and the others of your Catholic Church ever see fit to build another hospital, we’d like you to come take a look at Fort Smith. There’s talk of Indian Territory being changed to Oklahoma Territory soon and then becoming a new state later. We’re growing fast up there on the border and we’ll need a good hospital.”

“Marshal Crow, you’re a remarkable young man. We have enjoyed your presence here and your totally different way of seeing things. I’ll talk to the superiors in our Diocese and pass this along to them. Don’t be surprised if you see one of the Catholic Bishops walking up the road to your house one day,” she said and smiled at him.

“I reckon he’d be welcome, we never turn anyone away that comes to see us with a smile on his face.”

“Then I’ll make a personal recommendation that he come see you.”

“Thank you again, Ma’am. We’ll be taking Duncan out of here early in the morning, we got a boat to catch back up to Fort Smith.”

“May God bless each of you and watch over your journeys, your lives, and your families,” She said.

“Ma’am, I take that as special to all of us. I hope if your boss comes over there, you get to come too.”

“Thank you again, Marshal Crow, thank all of you for making us see that we do make a difference. If my ‘boss’ does come your way, I’ll ask permission to accompany him,” she had to laugh at Marshal Eli Crow, as tough as he was, he was sincere to the core.

“Then we’ll see you when you get there,” Eli said as they laughed.

“Doctor Harrod, if the Catholics build a hospital over in Fort Smith, you ought to come over and be our doctor. We’re in need of a good young doctor that will help us and help Fort Smith grow like we all know it’s about to.”

“Eli, you’d make a great ambassador. I have no doubt that you’ll get your hospital if the Bishop comes calling. Send me a telegram when he tells you yes, I’ll be on the next boat that way.”

“Then we’ll get Judge Parker to use the power of his position and help us all get it started. With the town of Fort Smith being a big border town and the main gate to Oklahoma when it becomes a state, we’ll need good doctors.”

“Eli Crow, you and Duncan and the others get that wild place cleaned up over there. You’ll soon be overrun with people wanting to live there and pass through there on their way to the new state.”

“We’re making good headway now, Doctor. Judge Parker’s only been there a few months and we’re bringing them in by the dozens to his court.”

Eli and Jefferson slept in the lobby again that night. They saw Doctor Harrod early the next morning as he checked Duncan’s reflexes and eyesight.

Duncan was dressed in the same clothes he’d worn on the trip to Little Rock as they left the Charity Hospital. The Sister had already made arrangements for a buggy to arrive early.

They met the Robertsons on the dock before they’d even unloaded their heavy sewing machines. Just a few minutes before ten, the lines were cast off and the Aunt Sally was under way.

She was eighty five feet long and eighteen feet wide at midship. She drew only twenty inches of water, fired by the twin boilers of the two steam engines and driven by twin paddle wheels.

Her paddle wheels were churning the water as she clawed and scratched to start her journey upriver.

With the water level up on the Arkansas from the late summer rains, the Aunt Sally plied her way right up that river as fast as the Ella Hughes had made her way down. She was loaded with two hundred barrels of flour and a hundred barrels of corn meal. She was carrying twenty two hundred board feet of lumber and fifty replacement troops, all headed up to Fort Gibson, between Fort Smith and Tulsey.

Fort Smith, Arkansas September 21, 1875

Just before noon, they were within a mile of Fort Smith docks. The three friends stood on the bow of the steamboat, looking to see the first glimpses of the docks as they rounded the last bend.

Mr. Robertson and his two grandsons stood with them, waiting to see the first glimpse of Fort Smith, where their future was about to begin.

Jefferson climbed onto a wooden keg, by grasping onto a rope connected to the boom poles used for loading and unloading cargo.

He stood with one foot resting higher, his knee bent as he flung back his open coat and pointed toward the docks as they came into view and spoke loudly.

All in the golden afternoon,
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied,
While little hands make vain pretense,
Our wanderings to guide.

“Jefferson, I never knew you were a poet like that,” Eli said looking at him.

“That was from Alice in Wonderland, “ Bill Robertson said.

“Yes, have you read the works of Lewis Carroll?” Jefferson asked.

“We’ve read Alice, is all. Our mother bought a copy of the book a few years ago when Jack and I were in school. We still have it.”

“If you would let me, I’d like to borrow it and read to the girls and boys we have at our house. They love to hear such stories and they love new songs to sing.”

“Then Bill and I will be happy to let you borrow the book. We each play musical instruments too. Jack plays the fiddle and banjo, and I play the guitar and mandolin.”

“I can see now, once the others learn of your talents other than your leather trade, you will have the whole family around you, asking for more and even asking for lessons in the art of playing musical instruments,” Jefferson said as they watched the pilot maneuver the steamboat closer to the docks.

“Then we’ll all have fun, these boys love to play and sing the songs their mother taught them as little ones,” Mr. Robertson said.

When the steamboat was tied off fore and aft, the long, wide boarding plank was swung down into place on the docks. The dock workers were busy with the unloading of goods that were to be delivered here, as the passengers disembarked and more came aboard to travel on to Fort Gibson.

The sewing machines, tools and many bundles of tanned hides were unloaded with the long boom poles, swinging out and brought to rest on the heavy freight wagon Eli had hired to carry them to their house.

Though everyone was excited to be in Fort Smith, Duncan was the most excited. Other than the white bandage that wrapped his bald head like a turban, he was as good, if not better than new.

Carl was busy with his brother and their workers, building the new shop for Little Duck where she would make her buckskin clothes, bags, and moccasins. He looked up when he heard the heavy wagon lumbering up the gravel road along the river bluff.

He stood and waved his arm back toward the house when he saw Sundy hanging clothes on the line.

Sundy screamed and yelled as she ran to the backdoor of the house, calling the others.

Family members ran from the boardinghouse like it was afire, as the news of their return was the best they’d had in a week.

Juni saw Duncan waving from the wagon as he stood next to Eli. She fell to her knees crying. Lettie grabbed her up and they held each other as the wagon rolled to a stop near the barn.

By the time the wagon wheels had stopped rolling, Juni was behind the wagon, her arms wrapped around Duncan’s waist, as he sat on the back of the wagon bed. She was still crying and sobbing as he wrapped his arms around her and held her tight.

“Little Girl, you stop that crying. I’m gonna be as good as new in a week or two, the doctor said I was,” he said as he held her and she looked up at him.

“Duncan?”

“Yes, Juni.”

“I think we better hurry in the house, our baby boy is about to be born,” she said as she put her hands to her belly and smiled through her tears.

“Lettie, you girls come get Juni. She’s about to have a baby over here!

“Oh Lordy, I just thought I was about to get well. Now I feel like I’m about to get weak in my knees again,” Duncan said as he walked with Juni, Lettie, and the other girls gathering around to make sure she made it back to the house.

“Where’s Mary, Rose, and Clarissa?” Eli asked.

“They are all in bed, Eli. They’re all about to have babies, you got back just in time,” Adalee told him.

“Adalee, I want you and your sisters to meet Mr. Robertson and his two grandsons. They’re here to open a new saddle and harness shop. Make them feel welcome, we gotta go,” Eli said as he and Jefferson took off running toward the house.

The three Robertson men laughed as they saw Jefferson outrun Eli to the back porch, where Eli grabbed him under his arms and lifted him to the porch. Adalee and her three sisters helped the men unload the bundles of leather and their tools, then stood back to watch as they and the man on the wagon unloaded the heavy sewing machines in the barn.

The four sisters wore new buckskin dresses Little Duck had shown them how to cut out and sew. They had their hair braided in two braids down their back and their skin was as clear and smooth as a baby’s.

Their faces were young, smooth and beautiful. Cadalee and Adalee had been using some of Little Duck’s potion on their young bodies. They were filling the dresses out on top as well as Tin Yu and Juni had before Christmas.

Jack and Bill saw the four sisters as the most beautiful they’d ever seen in their lives. The two youngest were just about their age and they couldn’t help but stare at the way their tight, smooth leather dresses fit them from their neck to their waists. They had sewn leather fringe on the sleeves and shoulders and around the hem.

As they walked and moved, the rawhide fringe seemed alive with fluttering, shimmering motions.

When the others walked away, Bill and Jack each reached out to touch their sleeves.

Adalee and Cadalee turned to smile at them.

“Did you make your dresses?” Bill asked.

“Yes, we made them. Little Duck showed us how to cut and sew the deerskin and how to make it even softer so it fits our bodies,” Adalee said as she smiled at Bill.

“You’re Adalee, right? I’m Bill Robertson,” he said, as if they hadn’t already met.

“Yes, I am Adalee. I am the youngest. I’m sixteen. How old are you, Bill?”

“I’m eighteen, uh, did Eli say all of you lived here too?” he asked, already knowing this new life and new business was going to be even better than they had let themselves dream as they waited to board the steamboat in Little Rock.

“Yes, we live here. Has Eli told you of our story by now?”

“No, just that there was four beautiful Cherokee sisters living here, learning the trade of making leather goods and clothing from Little Duck. Maybe you could show me the place where all the houses and buildings are being built and maybe walk down to the river and wave to the steamboat when it passes on its way upriver?”

“The steamboat will pass here?”

“Yes, have you not seen one?”

“Not here, we saw the one Eli and Jefferson took Duncan down to the doctor on. We have heard the steam whistle in the distance, but none of us have seen them pass by since we came here. Eli told us the river had been too low for so long.”

“Then will you walk with me and have a look?”

“Bill Robertson, will you walk slowly with me? I’ve never done this before. I need to tell you about my sisters and me, we have a bad story of our past.”

“I could care less, Adalee. Walk with me and when you feel the need to talk, just tell me what it is you think I should know.”

“Bill Robertson, I knew when Eli said you were here to be with us, you would be a good man. Eli knows how to see the good in men and women alike.”

“He sure does. I want to hear more from you, about Eli and all the others. This is all new to me and I promise to walk slowly. Whatever bad there was in your past, leave it there.”

“Then come with me, I like my new friend,” she smiled and took his hand.

They walked a few steps and looked back to see Cadalee and Jack walking behind them, hand in hand.

William Robertson watched his grandsons fall flat on their faces in front of these two beautiful young Cherokee women. He was happy for them and he was happy they had come to Fort Smith to start a new life and a new business. He sat on a bundle of tanned leather in the barn and gave thanks to the Lord above, for watching over them and for delivering them here to start over.

Inside the house, the girls helped Juni to a bed in the room where the other women either slept or sat up in bed.

Rose and Mary were asleep, their bellies about to pop they were so big.

Duncan stood beside Juni as she looked up at him and smiled.

“Duncan, you’re about to be a daddy, you know that don’t you?”

“I do and I’m proud, and scared too, Juni. I don’t know how to be a daddy, but I want a little one of our own too.”

“You’ll be a good daddy, Duncan, you’re so gentle and good to be around.”

“Do you really think so, Juni? I want to be a good one, I never knew my daddy. Do you really think we’ll have a boy?”

“Little Duck and Rose said our first one is going to be a boy. Is that alright, Duncan?”

“It sure is, I want a boy and a girl. I already learned how to help care for them, at least we won’t have to let them suck from a goat’s teat like Kia and Michi did,” he said and they laughed quietly as the others slept.

“Where’s Tin Yu, Eva, Catt, and Clarissa?” Eli asked, realizing they were missing.

“Come with me, Eli,” Lettie said, taking his hand.

Eli was afraid something was wrong, until he saw Lorene standing in another doorway, smiling at him as he walked toward them. They pointed to the bed where Tin Yu lay with her baby girl nursing from her swollen breast. Michi and Kia were sitting on the bed next to them, cooing and talking to the tiny, little black haired baby girl.

Tin Yu looked up to see Eli and tears came to her eyes as she saw him looking down at her and their baby.

“Eli, see what we have. Tin Yu love you more than ever now.”

“I love you more, Tin Yu. I love our little girl too. She’s just as pretty as her momma.”

“Yes, she’s a pretty baby, Eli, and so tiny, but she’s already looking around when she sees movement,” Lorene told him.

Eli walked around the bed and leaned over to hug Tin Yu and kiss her cheek.

“I love you, Tin Yu, you done good.”

“I love you, Eli Crow. From first time I see you, I love you. Now I see our tiny baby girl and I love you more. I’m glad now I have big titty, baby can eat and grow big like me,” she said, smiling up at him.

“Have you named her?”

“I wanted to call her Lee Yu Crow, will you let that be her name, Eli?”

“Yes, I like that. After your ma.”

“Yes, Eli. Little Duck tell Mary, she have a boy. Mary want to name him Eli Crow Junior. I like that name for him too.”

“Tin Yu, I never knew it would be like this when we were all talking about having babies. I never knew it would make me feel like I do.”

“Eli proud?”

“Eli is very proud, Tin Yu.”

“Little Duck say Rose have baby boy too, Eli.”

“I’m even more proud that my sister is having a baby, after all she’s been through. We’ve come a long way haven’t we, Tin Yu?”

“We have, Eli. Long way from day mother and father were kill and you take me and Juni Moon with you and Duncan.

“Is Duncan here, is he alright now?” she asked, thinking about him and his trip to see the doctor.

“He’s in there with Juni, the doctor said he’d be fine. When Juni came out to see him back, she grabbed her belly and told him he was about to be a daddy and he got weak kneed and almost fell on the ground.”

“Eli, baby is through eating from titty, you want to hold our little girl?”

“Hand her to me, Tin Yu. I hope she don’t pee on me like Kia and Michi did me and Duncan.”

He took the small, dark haired little girl in his hands and smiled down at her as she smacked her lips and wrinkled up her face. She scrubbed her little fists across her eyes and looked up into Eli’s eyes. Her arms and legs were swinging and kicking and she was squirming in his arms.

As she lay back against his arm, her little butt resting in the palm of his big rough hand, she wet her diaper and filled his hand with pee.

“I knew it would happen when I held her, I reckon I better get used to it though,” he said and laughed as Corinne took her and laid her on the bed.

“Eli, Rose and Mary are awake and they want to see you,” Lettie said as she stepped into the room behind him.

“Eli, you go see Rose and Mary, we see you soon,” Tin Yu told him and he leaned down to kiss her lips, then kiss the baby on her cheek as she grabbed his braid that fell across her hand, and held on.

“I’ll be glad when her hair is long enough to braid, Tin Yu,” he told her as they looked down at the tiny little girl and smiled.

“We all have braids then, Eli. You go see Rose and Mary, soon we all be up and nursing babies together, Lorene say.”

Eli walked backwards to the door, looking down at his beautiful young Chinese woman and their tiny little baby girl.

When Eli walked into the room where the other women were expecting babies any moment, he saw Mary and Rose as they lay in their beds next to each other, raised up on pillows and talking. Jefferson was sitting on the bedside, next to Rose. Eli walked between the beds to hug his wife, then his sister.

“Did you see your little girl, Eli? She’s just like a little doll, isn’t she?” Rose said as he held her hand.

“Yes she is, she peed on me as I held her too, reckon there’s something about me that makes ‘em want to pee,” he laughed and reached for Mary again.

He leaned over and kissed her lips as she raised her head. She was wet with sweat and her legs were raised as Corinne and Little Duck worked with her.

“Mary have baby soon, Eli. She have boy, then Rose have baby boy. Catt and Eva have baby boys tomorrow. Clarissa will have baby girl next day,” Little Duck told him, as if she had planned and scheduled the whole thing.

“Where are they? I didn’t see the others when I went to see Tin Yu.”

“They’re all down the hall, Eli. We put them in rooms downstairs until the babies are born. They’re asleep now, I just left there,” Lettie told him.

“Lettie, you’re becoming just like the nurses at the hospital where we took Duncan. You need to learn about that, you’d be a good one.”

“I wish I could be a nurse, Eli. Where could I go to learn how to be one?” she asked, her face lighting up.

“You just watch Little Duck and Corinne, they know all about birthin’ babies, then we’ll find out where you can learn about being a nurse. As many babies as we have, we’ll need a nurse and a doctor,” Eli told her, thinking of the young doctor Harrod that had fixed Duncan up. He wondered if he could help Lettie be a nurse. He wondered if the young doctor had a wife.

“Eli, our baby is going to be here soon. Please step outside, I don’t want you to see me like this. I hurt but I’m happy at the same time,” Mary said as her pains were coming faster.

“I kinda wanted to see my boy come into this world, Mary. I’ve seen horses have babies before and we had a cow that I helped have a calf one time.”

“Eli, are you sure? I mean it don’t look good when a woman has a baby.”

“Mary, you’re my wife, we made this baby boy on our way down here from Boones Crossing. I want to be here waiting for him when he gets here. I want to hold him and hand him to you when Little Duck hands him to me.”

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“This big horse wants to run, Duncan. You want to make some time?” “Let him run, Eli. We have almost 700 miles due west to ride and I’m ready. It’ll take us over 2 days hard riding to get to Tulsey Town, over on the Arkansas River.” The two deputies rode hard for over an hour and then slowed their spirited horses to a long easy lope as they talked and laughed as friends, starting a partnership that would be remembered in Indian Territory and surrounding states for years to come. The...

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 16

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 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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