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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 every damned one of you dead’ern hell. Now ease them guns back down in that leather. I’m Eli Crow, United States Marshal out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, under the authority of United States District Judge Isaac Parker. If you don’t put them pistols down, I’ll arrest every damn one of you and haul your asses back to Fort Smith tied across your saddles.”

“Hold on there, Marshal, don’t be pulling your guns on us, we didn’t see your badges. ‘Sides that you wouldn’t have lived to arrest me and my men anyway.”

“You best give your men the order to rest them rusty pieces of iron back in them holsters, Mister, or I’ll cut your throat with my first .45 slug. Now you either put them guns up or you’ll be the first to die,” Eli told him in a voice that left no doubt in the cavalryman’s mind he meant what he said.

“Put your arms away men, we can settle this peaceably. That is if this fuckin’ hot headed half-breed marshal don’t get scared and start shootin’.”

Duncan and Moses were back a ways on either side of Eli, their scatterguns pointed at the cavalrymen, hammers backed and ready. They looked at each other when the sergeant overloaded his wagon with his cuss words aimed at Eli.

Eli turned his horse and rode right up beside the sergeant, his right hand resting behind him on the back of his saddle. He swung his right fist wide, leaning over to catch the sergeant on the point of his chin. He knocked the big man a complete flip, as he flew from his saddle, while his enlisted men watched. The corporal beside the sergeant reached for his army pistol again. Quicker than a snake, Eli pulled his Colt with the hammer back, pointed right at the man’s face over the top of the sergeant’s horse.

“Mister, you and your sergeant don’t have any jurisdiction out here. This is public lands owned by the United States of America. If you pull pistol on me, you’ll die in that saddle.”

“Hold up Marshal, maybe we got off to a bad start out here,” the sergeant said from the other side of his horse. He felt his chin to see if it was broken, then pulled himself up by his stirrup, still wobbly legged.

“You’re the one that got off to a bad start, Mister. I ought to get off this horse and whup your ass all the way back over to Fort Reno for cussin’ me like that. I don’t like men who call me names. Now see if you can’t get on your horse and get away from us. We got work to do out here,” Eli said, his voice still just above a low, growling whisper. He was madder’n hell and he knew he was, it’d been a while since he’d let a man make him this mad.

Eli knew he needed to cool off, so he dropped his Colt back in his holster as the sergeant spoke.

“We were sent out here to patrol these lands on the orders of Lieutenant DeBona, at Fort Reno under the command of Colonel Travis up at Fort Supply. He told us to run any and all who rode here, off these lands, or bring them to the fort if they refused to leave.”

“I shoulda known it’d be that whiny ass colonel that was behind all this. He’s the very one who told me the cavalry don’t have no authority over civilians, something to do with a Posse Comitatus Act. Now here he is sending his men out to arrest civilians. Just wait until I get back and tell Judge Parker about all this.”

“Are you sure about all that, Marshal?”

“Damn right I am. Tell your lieutenant to ask that scaredy ass Colonel Travis when you get back. Hell, we had to ride all the way from Fort Smith to the Kansas border, up above Fort Supply to arrest some bad men he was afraid of, just cause he couldn’t send his own men after them.”

“You don’t have a very high opinion of the colonel do you, Marshal?”

“Damned straight I don’t. He called me names and talked down on me like you did, cause I’m part Indian. I oughta took his damned hair when I was up there. I may just go back and get it now. This is coming real damn close to getting me riled up at his ass all over again.”

“Marshal, is it alright with you if we mount up and ride on out?”

“Which way would you be headin’, Sergeant?”

“Back toward Fort Reno, of course. I sure ain’t gonna stay here and be arrested and took back to Fort Smith.”

Moses and Duncan rode in closer, now that the threat of gunplay was over. They already had their scatterguns back in their scabbards.

“Moses Kidd, is that you? Hell fire man, I heard you was a Deputy U.S. Marshal, I reckon I heard right.”

“It’s me and I sure am a deputy marshal, Sergeant. I wish you’d rode in a little easier. You could’ve saved yourself a sore chin. Marshal Eli Crow don’t take to bein’ cussed and called bad names, can’t say that I blame him none either.”

“I damn well won’t make that mistake again, talking big on a man and callin’ him names before I even know who he is.”

“Why are you men having to patrol this land anyway, if you don’t mind me askin’?” Moses said.

“There’s been lots of folks trying to settle on these unassigned lands and stake a claim. They’ve even tried to start up towns out here.”

“You men been the ones that’ve took them off?” Eli asked.

“Yep, last year we took a bunch of them led by David Payne, up to Fort Reno. Then we took them on up to Kansas and set ‘em loose. They came back and we took ‘em to Fort Smith, where your Judge Parker let ‘em go with orders not to come back, when they couldn’t pay the fine.”

“You’re gonna keep on and get your ass caught in a crack with the law,” Eli told him.

“You seem to know a lot about the law out here, you learn it first hand?” The sergeant said.

“Not really. But since you asked, I got a son that’s a new lawyer back in Fort Smith. If you men keep on patrolling this part of the Territory, you may need his services before long.”

“Where y’all headed, Marshal, if you don’t mind me askin’, that is,” the sergeant said.

“We’re headed over to the west side of the Territory to hunt down some outlaws on Cheyenne and Arapaho lands. But first, we’re gonna go down and talk to the Chickasaws for a spell.”

“I really don’t know what we ought to do. I don’t want to be brought up for insubordination, but then again, I don’t want to be doing wrong out here.”

“Well, you do what you think you oughta do, just don’t be pullin your guns on me and my fellow marshals out here again. You’ll get the whole damn bunch of you killed. We’re the only ones got jurisdiction over civilians in the Territory; ask your colonel and your lieutenant when you get back.”

“We’re not due to return until next week. If we go back now, we’ll be asked why. I reckon we’ll just set up camp where y’all were and hunker down for a few days, then we’ll see what happens when we get back. If I say anything to Lieutenant DeBona about anyone questioning his orders, you’ll hear him holler all the way down there in Chickasaw lands.”

“Well, all I got to say is, don’t be pullin no guns on us or any other marshal; you’ll get your ass shot off. I’d even go on to say you better not be pullin guns on civilians in front of a marshal neither. They’ll have your ass standing in front of Judge Parker over’n Fort Smith, blue uniform, brass buckles, shiny buttons and all. You may or may not know it, but he’s known as the hangin judge and he come by that name honest too.”

“Don’t even tell us any more, Marshal. You’ve got us so messed up now, I don’t even know what to tell my men,” the sergeant said, then turned his horse and rode off back toward the Canadian.

“Eli, I know every word you told that man was true, but Lordy, you wrung his ass out with it, telling him over’n over,” Duncan said and the three men laughed as they bumped their horses’ flanks to make up time.

They rode on south for over three hours, pushing their horses, but not getting them winded. When they slowed to a fast walk, they looked ahead to see eight to ten Indians walking toward them. Two had long lances, three had bows and arrows, and they all had some sort of battle axe either in their hands or tied on their sides.

“I know two of them, Eli, they’re Chickasaws. They don’t have a lot of horses or guns, but they’re a proud people. I’ll talk with them, if you want me to,” Moses said.

“Since you know them, you see what we can do for them. If we have to, we’ll find them some horses and some firearms.”

“I’ll tell them that. They’re a friendly, peaceable sort anyway and that’ll make us good friends with them.”

“I’ll jump in if it looks like we might can buy some land from them, and we’ll make sure they get what Iron Hammer got for his too.”

“Chokma, my friends of the Chickasaw. I am Moses Kidd who was an army scout and now a United States Marshal out of Fort Smith in Arkansas. This is my two marshal friends and we would like to speak with our Chickasaw friends,” Moses said as they stopped a few feet from the Indians.

“Chokma, Moses Kidd. I am Spotted Owl. You stopped being scout and now you lawman, you have done good.” An older Indian spoke in broken English.

“How can we help our friend, the black-Indian scout who is now a lawman?”

“We came to see the great people of the Chickasaw. We would like to maybe buy some acres, is any for sale on your wide lands?”

“Who is it, Moses Kidd, that wants to buy Chickasaw acres?”

“It is me and my friends, Eli Crow and Duncan. We want to be friends with the Chickasaw and one day grow cows here.”

“When you grow cows here, will Chickasaw people trade more lands for cows? We are a hungry people.”

“Yes, more cows for more lands, we will pay one white man gold dollar for one Chickasaw acre,” Eli spoke up.

“Are you Eli? You are Cherokee blood?”

“Yes, I am Eli Crow. I am Cherokee blood from my mother.”

“Is the man Duncan, Indian?”

“No, but he is my brother and he is Moses Kidd’s brother.”

“Then he is Spotted Owl’s brother, and now a Chickasaw brother. Stand down from your horses; we have many land acres to sell our brothers.”

“In Cherokee lands, we buy one white man acre for one white man dollar, is your land the same?” Eli asked.

“Chickasaw land same as Cherokee land, how many acres Eli Crow want to buy?”

“I have one hundred gold coins worth twenty acres each, for two thousand acres of Chickasaw lands.”

“Let me see these gold coins.”

Eli took his pouch and dumped two coins in his hand and handed them to Spotted Owl.

“Eli Crow’s gold is heavy. We take the hundred coins for two thousand acres starting here on the north and go south, then west, then back north. Eli Crow like how that looks?”

“Yes, we will have many pecan trees and many grassy acres to grow cows.”

“We will have agent man mark our lands. He is a good man, he will be straight.”

“We will now go to the west two more days, then we will come back this way soon. We will make smoke if we do not see Spotted Owl.”

“We will look for Eli Crow’s smoke and make smoke of Chickasaw.”

“Ayali, Moses Kid, Duncan, and Eli Crow.”

“Ayali, to you Spotted Owl,” Moses told them goodbye, as they mounted to leave.

With a wave and a fast nod to their new friends of the Chickasaw, the three were on their way north and west at a fast gallop. They rode for miles to make up some of the time they’d spent making yet another deal for lands in Indian Territory. Late in the day, they came upon the South Fork of the Canadian River once more, where it curled back, making a wide grassy place near the water’s edge, the grass growing tall and green.

They pitched camp here, gathering brush and driftwood to build a fire. Duncan had developed a taste for coffee while being laid up at the house so long. He broke out his small pot Lorene had found for him, in hers and Corrine’s belongs, and made coffee. With warmed over biscuits from home, fried salt meat and a tin cup of hot coffee, they leaned back on their saddles to have a talk about buying more lands.

“Eli, there’s sure a lot of them pecan trees on that land. I saw a man selling pecans down in front of the courthouse last fall. He was gettin a dime a pound in the shell and two dimes for the ones he’d shelled. With all the trees you just bought, we could haul pecans outta here by the wagon loads,” Duncan said.

“That would be a good way to help pay back what we paid for the land, Duncan. We might even get Spotted Owl’s people to pick pecans up for us and pay them cows for it,” Eli said as they rested back on their saddles and ate.

“Wonder if they’d sell us pecans from their own trees, Eli? I saw pecan trees as far as I could see back there. You know, we could even let our cows eat the grass around the trees and use them for shade too,” Moses said.

“You two are getting good at coming up with ways to make us money. We’ll have to talk to them about all that. We could fix up a special freight wagon with tall sides and haul them pecans back to Fort Smith and up to Tulsa too.

“They already got the name changed from Tulsey Town to Tulsa and folks’ll start moving in over there by the bunches soon.

“They opened up a post office over there at Perryman’s Store last year, and the post office man told me there was over two hundred folks living in the town now. Hell I heard they even got the telegraph wires run down there beside the railroad now.”

“Eli, you’re part white and part Indian, what do you think about the way the white man keeps pushing the Indian tribes back on smaller reservations like they do and starving them half to death?” Moses asked.

“Moses, it’s hard for me to even watch what’s happenin’ over here. The white part of me wants to buy lands and be a part of this new territory that’s about to become a state in a few years. Then the Indian part of me wants to start over in Washington and whup asses all the way back down to Tulsey Town on my way back.

“You just look at Iron Hammer and his brothers, they don’t even have food, and folks are trying to kill what deer and few buffalo that’s left on their lands.

“Then we come down here and the Chickasaw don’t even have guns, or horses to hunt off of, and all of them, from Tulsey all the way down here, are about to starve to death. Makes me madder’n hell at all the whole damned white bunch on my daddy’s side, is what it makes me feel. If we can ever get some cows growing down here, we’ll help Spotted Owl and his folks a lot more. If we ever run upon some horses, whoever owns them better be ready to do some horse tradin’ too, cause we’re gonna get them Chickasaws some horses, one way or another.”

“I reckon it is hard on both of y’all, both bein part Indian like you are. It’s hard for me to see the hurt in them Indians’ eyes too as they talk about what all’s happened to them. Just like them Osages we run into up there, just tickled to death to get some coffee, and then the Poncas too, that didn’t have a thing to live on. I’m about like you, Eli, and ain’t no part of me Indian,” Duncan said.

“Well, we sure can’t fight the whole damned country, but we can help our friends by trading for land and cows. If there’s a way for us to sell pecans back over there, then we’ll make some more deals with the Chickasaws on that too. Damn it all, I just hate when I get mad all over like this, makes me want to whup somebody’s ass good,” Eli said as he put his tin cup down and slid down with his head on his saddle.

“Moses, we better watch him. We know when Eli gets like this, somebody up the road is about to get a butt whuppin’, and they don’t even know it yet,” Duncan said, then laughed as he slid down with his head on his saddle.

None of the three slept but a few hours and Duncan made a pot of coffee before daylight, dumping more coffee over the old grounds and adding water. They drank another cup before kicking the fire out and saddling up for the day. They knew they were in Cheyenne lands already and would be over close to the Texas border before dark. The morning sun was bright and warm at their backs in the early part of the day. Spring was all the way over here in Indian Territory too and the trees and grass were green and wildflowers were blooming everywhere.

By mid-morning they saw a dust cloud back to the west and stopped on a rise in the land to get a better look.

Horses.

Hundreds of horses were running and Indians were chasing them, roping some of them.

Eli, Duncan and Moses looked at each other and grinned, then rode out to meet the herd of horses and the Cheyenne. As the roundup continued, three of the Cheyenne rode toward the three lawmen who had stopped to watch the action.

“I am White Elk, Nétsêhésenêstsehe?” the elder of the three spoke, waving his hand in peace.

“I am Moses Kidd, we are United States Marshals out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, we speak no Cheyenne,” Moses spoke, recognizing the greeting, when the Cheyenne asked who they were.

“We speak some white man words. What brings you to Cheyenne lands, Moses Kidd?”

“We are sent to the far side of Cheyenne lands to hunt for outlaws who hide there. We saw your horses and we wish to speak to the man who sells horses for the great Cheyenne people,” Moses told him.

“We know of the men you speak of, they cause Cheyenne much trouble. We will show you where they hide, but first we will talk of horses. How many do you need, three?”

“Tell him we need one hundred, if the price is good for horses as fast and fine as his,” Eli said.

“You are Indian too, what tribe you come from?” the man asked Eli.

“I am Eli Crow. I am from my mother, a Cherokee by birth and my white father, Ezra Crow, out of Missouri.”

“Your friend, is he Indian too?”

“No, but he is my brother and Moses Kidd’s brother.”

“Then I have met three brothers this day, step down and let us talk about horses and white man dollars.

“Why do you need one hundred Cheyenne horses when only three of you?”

“We have made friends with the Chickasaw and we have purchased lands from them. They have no horses and we would like to help them.”

“If we sell you horses, you will give or sell them to Chickasaw Tribe?”

“We will sell horses for more lands, we want to buy some of their lands and grow cows.”

“Cheyenne lands grows much fine grass, good for horses to eat, good for cows to eat too. Would you buy lands from the Cheyenne?”

“We would buy your lands, if the price is good and the price of the horses is good. One day we will bring cows to this land and trade more land for cows each year.”

“Eli Crow is a wise man. Cheyenne horses sell for five white man dollars, our lands sell for same as Chickasaw lands. Our lands would be one cow for ten acres when Eli Crow brings cows to this land.”

“We purchased two thousand acres of Chickasaw lands for one gold dollar for one acre. We will buy one hundred horses at five gold dollars for one horse and buy two thousand Cheyenne acres for one gold dollar for one acre.”

“Does Eli Crow have that many gold dollars in his pouch?” White Elk grinned.

“Yes, we have the gold dollars and we will have many cows here in half a year’s time.”

“Then Eli Crow needs to count out my dollars. When cows come here, we will need fifty cows a year to feed my people. We will add more acres each year.”

Eli took his two pouches out of his saddlebags and counted the twenty dollar gold coins out on his blanket in stacks of ten. There were twelve and a half stacks.

“White Elk knows this coin? It is same as twenty white man dollars.”

“I know of such a coin, though I have had few of them. Eli Crow can pick his horses now.”

“White Elk knows his horses better than we do, I will let you and your men pick the hundred horses. We will come this way again when we have made our arrests of the bad men we’re looking for.”

“Then we will pick one hundred fine horses for the Chickasaw Tribe. We will have them for you when you return, Marshal Eli Crow. I will have my agent man mark your acres next to white man’s land over there. My men will take you to the place where the bad men hide on the side of Cheyenne lands and the side of white man’s Texas lands. They have a trading house and sell whiskey and women and they rob and steal from all who go there. If you kill all of them, I will smile one day for each one you kill.”

“Thank you, White Elk, mark the acres in the corner, down next to Chickasaw lands. I saw water pools there with the black water in them that is good for taking ticks off cattle and horses, we want that too,”

“Eli Crow is a very wise man; we have many of these pools. We will mark Eli’s lands so he will have many.”

“We will return in two days to see you once more. How many men are hiding there, we have papers for four.”

“There are more than four. I will smile for seven days, if you kill all of them.”

“I may not kill all; we need to take some back to stand before Judge Isaac Parker in Fort Smith,”

“Then I will still smile a day for each, dead or alive.”

They gathered up their blankets and rolled and tied them behind their saddles. When they were mounted, they waved and three of White Elk’s young men rode west with the three lawmen at a fast gallop.

The three young Cheyenne waved to the marshals and flogged their horses with leather straps as they leveled off across a wide flat plain with very little brush. They were spread wide apart, riding six abreast as they looked across at each other, grinning, urging their horses faster. The Cheyenne had good fast horses, but so did the three marshals, who’d built the wind in their horses for such a run against the outlaws. When they’d run for close to five miles, they all slowed and the taller of the young Cheyenne looked at Eli.

“Eli Crow and marshals have fine horses.”

“The Cheyenne have fast horses, we are proud to buy horses from such a fast herd.”

When they had slowed to a fast walk for a few miles, the Cheyenne pulled up and pointed to a log and sod house near a winding creek among some willows. There were a dozen horses tied to trees at different places around the house, and more horses in a big, willow pole corral to the side.

“What do you know about the men inside?” Eli asked as they squatted beside their horses, looking through the willow thicket at the building.

“They have whiskey and women and they steal from all travelers who come near here.”

“I see ten horses tied up with saddles, and another ten in the corral, how many men will be in there?”

“The ten horses in the corral will be stolen horses. The horses tied in front and to the side, will be men inside who will be drinking and laying with women.”

“Are the women white women or Indian women?”

“Some of both.”

“Are they held prisoners and forced to be here?”

“No, they come and go, they even bring travelers back here they meet on the trails.”

“Are there any towns close by?”

“Maybe half a day across Texas border, where the railroad passes.”

“Have you been to this town?”

“No, we cannot leave our lands, but we have talked to men who have. Big cow pens there where trains load cows.”

“Are you going back, now that you have showed this to us?”

“No. We want to see the battle, when three marshals take ten men.” The oldest smiled as he told Eli that.

The three young Cheyenne looked at the three young marshals and they all grinned. Duncan and Moses took their scatterguns from their saddles and Eli pulled his rifle from his saddle boot.

“Hold our horses for us, we’ll need the chains soon,” Eli grinned as he, Moses and Duncan ran for the house. Duncan and Moses ran toward the back and Eli headed for the front door. Eli saw Duncan and Moses step into the back doorway, then walked into the room. He looked the room over in a quick glance. He saw two mattresses in the floor on one side with three women and four men. There were two women and another four men drinking at a fine made oak table in the middle of the room. Two more men were behind a fancy bar, pouring whiskey from a big keg into bottles and laughing as they talked.

“Eli Crow, United States Marshal, out of Fort Smith, Arkansas. You’re all under arrest. If you hold real still you won’t die. You pull a gun and we’ll kill every damned last one of you, women included,” Eli yelled as he stood where he could cover the whole room.

Duncan and Moses had parted and stood where they could cover the room from the other side with their shotguns, without getting shot by each other. They had the hammers backed and the guns held at their waist. The two men behind the bar looked at Eli when he yelled. They dropped the bottle and funnel they were pouring whiskey into, the whiskey gurgling from the hole in the keg onto the dirt floor.

One of the men reached under the long bar for a gun. Eli pulled his Colt and fired. The .45 slug ripped a big gash across the top of his skull while he was bent over. The other man had dropped to the floor as Eli walked around the end of the bar. He was trying to get his hands on the double barreled shotgun, but the dead man was lying on the butt of the gun. He pulled a hand gun, and Eli shot him in the forehead as he looked up, fear in his eyes as he fumbled, trying to back the hammer.

The rest of the room had been caught naked and unaware. Duncan and Moses moved about, gathering up guns and knives. Duncan had just walked past one of the filthy straw mattresses when a woman raised up with a pistol she’d pulled from under the straw mattress. Moses heard the first click of the hammer and whirled to cut her nearly half into with both barrels of double aught buckshot through her lower back. He breached the gun and dropped two more shells in, then snapped the gun closed.

“If there’s anyone else pulls a gun, I’ll kill every damned one of you. Now just lay back with your hands up in the air. You there, at the table, drop your guns and lay in the floor so we can see you.”

“Fuck you, you sumbitchin’ Injun,” the man yelled and grabbed for his gun.

Eli shot him in the throat. He whirled quickly and shot the woman next to the man, just under her ear, as she reached for the dead man’s gun.

Eli turned to look at the other man sitting beside the one he’d just killed.

“You got a gun on you?” he asked, his gun pointed at the man’s face, the hammer back.

“Yes, but I ain’t gonna pull it, Marshal. Don’t shoot.”

“Lay that gun on the table real slow and you lay in the floor then.

“You there, get your naked ass in the floor too before I shoot you,” he said, looking at the last woman at the table.

As she stood to turn, she pulled the gun from the table and died with her right eye shot out, blood gushing from a big hole in front and one in back of her head.

Moses and Duncan looked at each other and each shook their heads as they made the other two women and four men get up from the mattress.

The other two men at the table with their backs to Eli had already raised their hands. They lay their heads down on the table and held their hands out and overhead as high as they could. Moses walked over and pulled their handguns and threw them through the back door. He threw two buckskin shirts at the women and told them to put them on.

They made all of them walk outside and lay in the dirt face down, hands and legs spread wide. There were only two women and seven men that walked out of that stinking place. Eli looked out where the three young Cheyenne were still hunkered down. He whistled and his big black horse pulled away from the Indians and ran straight to him. When his horse pulled away from them, they let the reins loose on Duncan’s and Moses’ horses and they followed Eli’s horse.

The Cheyenne watched as the marshals chained all the men and two women together, leaving them face down in the dirt. Eli rolled the cylinder on his Colt and dropped the five spent shells in the dirt, replacing them with live ones from his gun belt. The three young Cheyenne rode up on their horses. They were smiling as they looked down at the three lawmen.

“Bad men stand no chance against marshal brothers of the Cheyenne,” the oldest said smiling, then with a wave, the three turned and rode off slowly.

“Hot Damn Eli, just like old times, ain’t it? Damn I was shaking, but I was ready to shoot some asses when all at once, you’n Moses killed nearly half of ‘em,” Duncan said as they looked down at the prisoners.

“We need to gather up all the guns and bullets and see if there’s a wagon out back we can pile these outlaws into, we got a long ride back to Fort Smith.”

“I saw a wagon back there when we ran around back, Eli. I’ll get a team hitched to it and bring it around,” Moses said and walked around the building.

“I’ll be gathering up all the guns and bullets I can find, Eli, if you want to have a good look around in there,” Duncan said, as he glanced over at his friend.

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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 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 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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