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“Eli, did you ever look them papers over good? Who is it we’re headin’ up here to get and what’ve they done to get in trouble with the law?” Moses asked.

“Looks like we got us another Hamp Noonan on our hands. Least wise, this’n is doin’ about the same things Hamp did back over yonder.”

“What’s his name, Eli?” Duncan asked.

“Says here it’s T.F. Miles and he’s wanted for harboring horse thieves and stealing land from folks in Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. He’s supposed to have about ten men that do his dirty work, while he sits back and lives high on the hog. I reckon the horse thieves would be the men that work for him.

“I reckon we’ll have to be extra careful, if there’s ten of ‘em backin’ him up in all this. We need to stop and let Joe shoot my Sharps a few shots. He can take it and I’ll use my Winchester. I don’t doubt that we’ll get into a fine gun battle with that many men runnin’ wild up here,” Eli told them.

When they camped near the bank of Spring River for the night, they built a fire and Duncan boiled a pot of coffee. He’d found a bigger pot he could carry in his bedroll. One that made two quarts of coffee at a time.

Eli went to his saddle and removed the scabbard he carried his Sharps .50 caliber rifle in. He and Joe affixed it to Joe’s saddle and Eli gave him a box of cartridges.

Eli showed him the simple workings of the long, single-shot rifle and the scope. He set up a target about two hundred yards downriver, along the bank, and told Joe to sight through the scope. He took his forked pole he carried and showed Joe how to use it as a rest for the rifle as he sighted through the scope.

“Drop a shell in there and take a shot. Be careful and don’t pull off when you squeeze the trigger. Just rest the gun in the fork and hold the stick and rifle steady as you shoot. It’s gonna kick like hell, so get ready. It’ll take you a couple of shots to get the feel of this big gun.”

Joe sighted through the scope, centered his cross hairs in the middle of the mark Eli had made in the big tree trunk, and squeezed the trigger. Eli was looking through Moses’ spotting scope and saw the bullet strike just off center.

“Joe, can you see where you hit?”

“Yep and you were right, Eli. This thing shoots like a cannon, and kicks like a mule, don’t it?”

“Shoot that same hole. If you’re pulling off, you’ll shoot to the right of it. If the scope is on, you’ll hit the mark by squeezing the trigger slowly as you steady the rifle.”

Joe fired again and hit dead center of his first bullet hole.

“Whoooooweeee, this rifle is something else. How far will it shoot?”

“It’ll hit a target at a half mile, I know. I reckon it’d shoot a mile or more, if you could see that far and knew where it hit. What I learned to do, was use the setting it’s set on now, for four hundred yards, then click ten clicks up, to shoot a half mile.”

“You hit a target at a half mile?”

“All of us did, Joe. That’s some rifle, huh?” Moses said as he walked over.

“You can have that one, Joe. I told Perryman to get me one like it and a scope too,” Eli told him.

“Whoooooweeee, Eli. Are you sure?”

“Yup, I gotta look out for you. You’re my daughter’s man now.”

They warmed their food in a skillet and drank their coffee as the sun set. When the others had stretched out on top of their bedrolls, Eli walked downriver a ways and sat on a log with his elbows resting on his knees. His head was down, as he sat looking at the ground, his hands clasped. No matter what he did, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get Mary out of his mind for more than a minute. It was just hard to believe she wasn’t here anymore. The hurt really came hard at him during the night and he could hardly sleep at all.

“Mary, you got to help me. I feel lost and I feel like I’m about to blow up. I do alright as long as I’m busy and with the others and the family back home. When I’m alone and when it gets quiet, I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to keep on goin’. If you’re lookin’ down here right now, just help me get on with it. I know you’re gone, but my head won’t let you go and I feel like I just want to hit something and make it hurt like I do. I know I’m not the same as I was, I can feel myself changin’ and that makes me afraid too.

“I don’t know anything about God and heaven and all that stuff. I know you believed in all that, and I believed you and Rose when you told me there was a God. I reckon Pa believed in it too. I’m not sure if Ma did or not. She had her own beliefs and I know she’s up there somewhere, cause I’ve seen her. If you’re there with Him now, tell Him I need some help. Tell Him to let up on me a little so I can do my job and be the head of the family. I’m afraid I’m gonna mess up bad and I try harder than I ever did, to make the right plans for all of us.

“I guess you know, we might be about to drill for oil in the coming months. I know for sure we’ll drill by this time next year. If we do I hope you’ll be as happy as we are about it.

“Mary, if I can’t get my head back right, I may quit marshaling. The way I feel right now, I don’t know if I’ll be able to do my job right. I hope I don’t do somethin’ to get the others shot.

“I sure wish I could see Little Deer like I used to. I know that would make me feel better, just knowin’ she was still lookin’ down on me. I reckon I’ll go back to camp now. I feel some better after talkin’ to you, but I still hurt. I hope you don’t hurt no more, Mary,” Eli was talking in his soft voice, not even realizing he was speaking aloud, as he thought about Mary. He looked around to see if any of the others had heard him.

He walked back to camp and lay on his bedroll, looking up at the clear night sky. He closed his eyes, and for the first time in a long time, he slept soundly.

When daylight came to the river, they were sitting by the fire, drinking coffee and waiting for their biscuits to warm up.

“How much further you reckon we got to go, Eli?” Duncan asked.

“Not too far accordin’ to this. They’re set up in a big place between the Spring River here and the Neosho River. We ought to be far enough south to cross over here and ride across a ways to see if we can find them. Just be watchful, this is their stompin’ grounds and they know it better ‘n we do.”

They broke camp and saddled up. Crossing the shallow river, they headed east-northeast.

They’d ridden for a little over two hours when they saw two saddle horses wandering along the narrow trail in front of them. Instantly, they broke apart and stepped to the ground, ready for anything. The horses turned around and walked right up to their horses. Moses grabbed one and Duncan got the other.

“Eli, there’s blood on this saddle,” Moses told him.

“Tie ‘em up here, we’ll come back and get ‘em later. We need to walk our horses a ways so our heads won’t be stickin’ up over these little trees. This may be a set-up, or somebody may have been shot from the saddle.”

They walked slowly, two abreast along the narrow brush lined trail, leading their horses. Hands on their guns, they watched all around to be sure they weren’t walking into a trap. Eli and Moses were in the lead, Joe was walking beside Duncan, right behind them.

Moses stopped and pointed off to the side of the trail. There were two girls lying head to head, tied together, with their arms stretched back over their heads. They were lying on their backs naked. The girls weren’t moving and the marshals couldn’t tell if they were even alive. Looking all around, they moved slowly over to take a better look.

Eli handed the reins of his horse to Joe and motioned for him to stop as Moses handed Duncan his reins. Duncan was facing back where they came from. Joe was facing the other direction, keeping an eye out, as Eli and Moses crept over to see if the girls were alive.

Before Eli even got close, he knew the girls had been raped. He could see the bruises on their legs and breasts where they’d been grabbed and struck with fists. Their faces were bruised and bloody and when they got close enough to see better, they saw the girls’ throats had been cut.

Moses looked quickly at Eli when he heard him make a sound in his throat. Eli’s face was hard and grim. His eyes were drawn tight and unblinking as he looked down at the girls. Moses touched Eli on his hand and pointed back in the brush. He looked and saw clothes scattered all over, blood on the long dresses the girls had been wearing.

Eli looked at Moses and Moses had to look away. He’d never seen Eli look like this. Not even down in the piney woods in that house with the black cats, nor over at Fort Supply, when he first met him. Not even when Eli caught Bear Sixkiller with Sissy. Not even when they’d buried Mary. This was a different Eli Crow and whatever it was that had come over him, he knew it wasn’t going to be good.

“Eli,” Moses whispered and Eli slowly turned to look at him.

“You alright?”

“Yeah. Let’s go find the ones who did this. We’ll come back and bury these girls later.”

Eli walked back to take the reins from Joe and without saying a word, he turned to walk the way they’d been going. Moses, Duncan and Joe looked at one another, then toward Eli as he walked away. They tugged on the reins of their horses and followed him quickly.

They walked nearly a mile before the narrow trail opened into a wide sandy road that turned south, lined on both sides by white board fences. They could see a big house and barn across the pasture in the distance. All the grounds were well kept and neatly groomed.

Not wanting to be caught with their horses out in the open, they led them back into the tall brush, directly behind the main barn and tied them so they couldn’t pull loose.

Taking their rifles and shotguns, they made their way back to the white board fence that surrounded the entire perimeter of the estate. Joe was first to bend and step between the boards on the fence, as the others watched. Then each of then quickly and quietly stepped into what was definitely a horse corral.

They made their way quickly to the back of the barn where the passageway was closed off with two big half-doors that were latched in the middle. Eli stood for a long time, peeping over the door, to see if anyone was in the barn. He saw ten horse stalls on each side down the wide passageway. Each of them looked to have a horse in them.

They needed to get inside and out of sight as quickly as they could. He lifted the latch slowly and the door nearest him swung open just a little with a slight squeak of the dry hinges. They all looked at Eli as he lifted the door to get the weight off the hinge, swinging it wide enough to let them slip inside. Once inside, he reached over the top of the half-door and closed the latch. Ducking down, they slipped along the row of stalls, all the way to the front of the barn. There was a tack room on the right, but they had to cross the open passageway, and the wide front door was open.

Eli looked toward the bunkhouse and then the main house. Seeing no one, he quickly ran across the opening. He turned to watch as he waved them over one at a time across the opening. They entered the tack room and saw many fancy saddles. Some were English riding saddles, but most were finely tooled western saddles with padded, high back seats.

There was an open window on the front side of the tack room. Moses knelt on a wooden box up close to the window and kept watch toward the house. The whole place looked like a southern mansion, with huge weeping willows, giant oaks, and large black walnut trees providing shade over the wide, neatly manicured lawn.

He ducked down as the back door opened on the big house and two black girls came out with large baskets of clothes and started toward the clotheslines. Before the door could close completely, an older black man walked out the door and headed toward the barn.

“Eli, we got company coming,” Moses whispered and Eli took a peek over the window sill.

“We may as well make our move now. Hold my rifle and scattergun, I’m gonna take him down as soon as he comes in the barn door,” he whispered and handed his guns to Duncan.

Eli was crouched against the front wall near the door when the man walked into the barn. He let him pass a few steps then sprang up to grab him with one hand over his mouth and his other hand on his throat.

“Rest easy and you won’t get hurt,” Eli said as he quickly pulled him backwards to the tack room door.

“Don’t yell and I’ll take my hand off your mouth, yell and I’ll cut your throat, you hear me?”

The old man nodded his head, his eyes wide in fear as he looked around at the men in the tack room.

He saw the U.S. Marshal’s badges and he felt relief.

“What’s your name?”

“Isaiah.”

“Mine’s Eli, tell me whose place this is.”

“It belongs to Mr. T. F. Miles.”

“Is he here?”

“Yas’suh, he in the house over yonder. Y’all aimin’ to arrest him?”

“We got a warrant for his arrest. Is any of his men here?”

“Y’all know about them too? They rode off this mornin’, ain’t seen ‘em since.”

“How many?”

“Ten of ‘em. They some bad men too, Marshal. They’ll kill all of you and never think a thought of it.”

“Anybody else in that house?”

“My woman and my two girls over yonder hangin’ out clothes.”

“Miles got a wife or a woman?”

“Naw ‘suh. He makes my girls lay with him tho’.”

“Will you help me and my friends?”

“I’m an old man, Marshal, ain’t nothin’ I can do. I’d help if I could tho’.”

“Can you get your woman and your girls out here, without them or anyone knowin’ anything?”

“I can do that, they always help me in the barn. Want me to go get ‘em now?”

“Yeah, before the others get back. There may be some shootin’, and I want you and your family to stay in this tack room.”

“Ain’t none of them men gonna shoot at this barn. These hosses are worth a ton of money.”

“What kind of horses are they?”

“They Tennessee Walkers and Saddlebreds. Got three studs and the rest are mares. All of ‘em the bossman paid lots and lots of money for so he could raise some of his own.”

“I’ve heard of them, smooth gaited are they?”

“Yas’suh.”

“Isaiah, go get your woman and your girls in here right away. Where will the men go first when they come back?”

“They’ll come here to the front of the barn and tie up at the water trough.”

“Hurry Isaiah, just don’t let on we’re here. If you tell ‘em we’re here, I’ll be the one that kills you and your women. Help me and my friends and we’ll give this whole place to you when we leave.”

“For real?”

“For real – now get gone.”

“Eli, you reckon he’ll do it?” Duncan whispered when Isaiah walked slowly toward the house, looking back once, before turning to enter the back door.

“He’ll do it. He don’t like his girls layin’ with that man in there. No tellin’ what else they’re made to do,” Eli said in a soft whisper, his face hard, his lips drawn down tight.

Moses looked at Duncan, then they looked at Joe. The three of them knew Eli was mad because the girls were being forced to lay with the man. He was already mad as hell about the other girls being raped and killed back out a ways from here.

Isaiah didn’t come right back out and after a nervous two or three minutes, Duncan whispered.

“Eli?”

“He’ll be here.”

“Here he comes, Eli, he’s got a woman and the two girls with him. They’re runnin’ now,” Moses said and the four of them ran into the barn. Isaiah shooed the women into the tack room and they jumped back when they saw the four lawmen squatted down.

“This is Marshal Eli. He gonna set us free and give us this whole place.”

“Marshal?” the woman said.

“Just get your girls down over here in the back corner. We’re gonna take the men when they come back and we don’t want any of you getting hit with bullets.”

“Like I said, Marshal, they won’t shoot at this barn. They’ll shoot it up outside tho’.”

“I hear horses, Eli,” Joe said and they listened.

“Here they come and they’re ridin hard,” Eli said as he listened.

Eight men rode hard, around the front of the big barn and right up to the water trough. Before they even dismounted, one hollered.

“Isaiah, where you at, you black-ass bastard?”

“Stay down,” Eli told them as he slipped into the passageway, followed by Moses.

“Isaiah, get your black-ass out here. I want to know who these horses belong to?”

Eli looked at Moses, then across to Duncan and Joe in the tack room.

“He’s got two of our horses, Eli,” Moses whispered.

“Isaiah, I’m gonna put a hoe-handle across your black-ass if you don’t get out here.

“By God, I’ll get somebody to come out,” he said and they heard a muffled gunshot.

Eli jerked his head and looked at Moses.

“He shot a horse,” Moses whispered.

They heard a loud thud and something fell against the front of the barn. Eli saw his horse’s head fall by the front door and lay there.

“Back me up, Moses.”

“Eli, you can’t go out there, they’ll kill you. Wait ... til they split up.”

Eli pulled his Colt and spun the cylinder.

“I got your back, Eli,” Moses said, but Eli was up and moving. He ran through the front door as Duncan stood in the window of the tack room with his shotgun.

Joe ran to the front door with his Colt ready as he stepped out behind Moses.

Eight men were standing by their horses. They were looking down at the big black stud their boss just shot. They looked up to see the tall Indian Marshal standing facing them.

“OH HELL!” One yelled and turned to run.

The others turned and pulled their guns as Duncan shot through the window, cutting two of them down with a load of double-aught buckshot to their chests. Eli fanned his single action Colt and cut three men down. Moses was running out past the horses to get a shot at the one who had ran. Joe moved past Eli and saw a man run around the corner of the barn and took off after him. When he peeped around the corner, a slug splintered the board off at the corner. There was another shot and Joe stepped out, killing the man with three fast shots to his head.

The man Moses was chasing turned and raised his gun with his hand shaking. Moses shot him in his throat as he fumbled with his gun.

Joe heard another shot and looked back to see Eli shoot another man twice more in the face. He watched as Eli turned and shot three more times in the head of the man that had killed his horse.

“There’s two more somewhere, Joe. Moses’ horse and your Paint horse ain’t here either,” Eli said.

“They kill my Paint and I’ll skin the hide off their asses,” Joe said and ran toward the back of the barn.

When he came to the half-door at the back, he leaped over it with his long legs. Joe cleared the high board fence and ran through the brush where they had tied their horses. He ran right face to face with a young man about his age. The boy put his hand on his gun and Joe killed him with a shot to his throat. He turned to see his big Paint and ran toward him. Another man jumped out at Joe as he ran by, knocking Joe to the ground.

Joe heard the click as the man backed his hammer. He rolled with his Colt up, the hammer back. He shot the man twice right through his belly. Joe rolled out of the way to keep the man from falling on him.

He jumped to his feet and the man was yelling and holding his belly where blood was pouring through his fingers.

“You sumbitch, I wasn’t gonna shoot you,” he cried.

Joe shot him between his eyes, then reached for his horse’s reins.

He swung to his saddle and grabbed the reins on Moses’ horse and rode through the gate to the back of the barn. He stepped off his horse, over the half-door and dropped to the ground inside the barn.

“I see you got the horses, you get the other two?” Eli asked when he walked to the front of the barn.

“I got ‘em,” was all Joe said.

“I reckon we can go get Mr. T.F. Miles now,” Eli said as they stood reloading.

“Marshal Eli, I never woulda believed y’all coulda took them ten men. They as bad as I ever saw, up til now that is,” Isaiah said as he helped his womenfolk out of the tack room.

“Where will Miles be?” Eli asked his voice soft, almost in a whisper.

“He’ll be hunkered down in his bedroom. He’s got lots of fine, fancy guns in there, Marshal, y’all best be watchful. He ain’t a fightin’ man, but he’ll shoot at anythin’ that scares him.”

“Let’s go,” was all Eli said, as he strode toward the back of the house. Moses and Joe ran toward the front as Duncan hurried to keep up with Eli.

“Lawd have mercy, Isaiah, y’all reckon this is really happenin?” his woman asked as they watched the four marshals enter the big house.

“I think maybe the Lawd has already had mercy on us – when He sent these marshals, Nellie.”

When Eli and Duncan entered through the kitchen, they saw Joe and Moses coming through the front door. They looked into different doorways to see where the bedrooms were.

“Over here, Eli,” Joe whispered and waved.

Standing to the side, Eli peeped around the open doorway, into the large bedroom. He looked the room over and saw no one. He leaned back and looked at the others.

“Eli Crow, United States Marshal out of Fort Smith, Arkansas. You’re under arrest Miles, come on out before we come in and kill you,” Eli yelled loudly.

There was no sound. Joe knelt on the floor and peeped into the room. He couldn’t see all the way under the bed, but he saw the bed covers move where they draped to the floor.

“He’s under the bed, Eli,” Joe said and raised his Colt.

“Come out from under that bed, or we’ll kill your cowardly ass where you lay,” Eli yelled into the bedroom.

They heard the loud blast of a shotgun and all four emptied their Colts into the bed covers between the floor and the high bed. There was no sound after they emptied their guns.

Blood ran from under the bed and across the floor to a braided rug, where it puddled.

Moses pointed the barrel of his Colt to the blood and they eased into the room. Joe knelt, and with the barrel of his pistol, he raked the covers back up over the side of the bed. T.F. Miles had put the muzzle of the shotgun in his mouth and pulled both triggers. He had over twenty bullet holes in his body, and his face was nothing but a bloody mess.

The four marshals were still kneeling, looking under the bed at the dead man, when Isaiah and his women came in the room.

“Isaiah, can you and your women get this man taken care of, if we get him from under there?”

“Yas’suh Marshal, and we sho’ thank all y’all.”

“Where did he keep his important papers and valuables, Isaiah?”

“Over here,” he answered and walked to a small door and rapped on it.

“It leads down to a root cellar with a back door escape tunnel to the barn.”

The men pulled a thick quilt onto the floor, on top of the braided rug. They reached under the bed to grab hold of the Mile’s arms and legs. Pulling the body out, they rolled him onto the covers. Eli took the hand irons he carried, and hooked them on the man’s hands as the others looked at him like he was crazy. Eli knew what he was doing, he had a plan to make all this appear legal.

Isaiah and his women grabbed the rug and pulled the bloody body out through the doorway and on through the kitchen into the back yard.

Eli walked over to the small cellar door and shot through the lock, then jerked it open. There were two small lamps resting on a shelf at the top of the stairs and Eli lit one with the matches on the shelf.

“Duncan, you and Moses see if you can find all his guns and anything else that might be valuable. Lay it all out on the bed and we’ll go through it.

“Joe, get this other lamp and let’s check out this cellar and the tunnel Isaiah spoke of.”

When he turned, Duncan and Moses were already opening closets and drawers, searching for whatever they could find.

Eli and Joe walked down the narrow steps to the brick floor of the cellar. There were stacks of wooden crates along one wall, and shelves with small boxes and books along another wall. The other wall had three large, fancy gun cases lined up. Each held twenty guns of all sizes and calibers. The cabinet doors underneath the display were filled with shelves. There were antique pistols, new pistols, and there were boxes and boxes of ammunition of all sizes and calibers.

There was only one door and Eli opened it, after kicking the lock loose. It led into a long dark tunnel.

Eli turned back to the cellar and saw a larger lamp hanging from the ceiling and lit it. The room was well lit with the three lamps and they began to search through the man’s belongings.

Joe started with the boxes, lifting them to the floor as he went through them. After he moved the third one down and looked inside it, he turned to Eli and whistled.

“Looky here, Eli,” he said as he held up a bundle of paper money.

“Set that crate over near the steps and see what else you can find.” Eli smiled at this.

He didn’t like this man from the first time he read about him on the warrant, he liked him less after he saw the men who worked for him. He was going to be paid well for his big stud horse that got killed for no reason. He would love to have been the one who killed all the men himself, for that one thing alone.

Joe found two more boxes of paper money, all in neat bundles, tied and stacked tightly in the crates. He found a heavy wooden crate on the bottom of a stack that was too heavy to move. He pulled the top off and saw it was lined with tin. Inside was neatly stacked, octagonal shaped, fifty dollar gold coins minted in California in 1855. It must have weighed over five hundred pounds.

“We’ll have to take some of these gold coins and put them in another box or two, this one’s too heavy to even move,” Joe said as he pointed down to the full crate of gold coins. Eli walked over and looked down at the gold. This is what he liked to see, though the paper money was good too.

When they’d gone through all the boxes, they found one more box of paper money and a box of land deeds from Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri. Eli stacked that box on top of the paper money. He wanted to go through those deeds closely.

Eli walked through the tunnel with a lamp. He wanted to see where the opening was in the barn, since they hadn’t seen it when they were out there. He came to the end and there was a wide staircase, three times as wide as the one in the house. When he walked to the top, there was a cross bar made of iron across the double doors, with a padlock holding it down. In the corner of the top landing, there was a box of tools.

Eli pulled out a hammer and struck the lock six times before it fell open. When he’d lifted the heavy metal bar, he pushed the doors wide to walk out into the empty stall next to the tack room. He looked at the other side of the doors and they were made to look just like the outside wall of the tack room. He walked by his dead horse on his way back to the house, his anger boiling over once more as he looked down.

Stooping down, he pulled his knife and took the scalp of the man who’d shot his horse. With the scalp hooked over the end of his blade, he stepped out and flung the scalp back on top of the tin roof of the barn. He wiped his blade on the man’s shirt and walked to the back of the house.

“What did y’all find?” he asked Moses and Duncan when he came into the bedroom.

“We found a room over there with nothing but guns and bullets of all kinds. There must be over two hundred guns in there, Eli,” Moses said as they opened the door to show him.

Eli walked in and saw the walls lined with rifles and shotguns. On one wall were shelves from top to bottom, filled with fancy handguns of all makes and sizes.

“We’ll get a wagon up here and load all these guns and bullets too. There’s three more gun cases down in the cellar with fancy guns, pistols, with boxes and boxes of ammunition. The tunnel leads out to the barn and comes out in the stall next to the tack room. We’ll pull the wagon in the barn and load all the stuff from the cellar. The stairs and doorway in the barn are bigger. Joe found four boxes of money and a big box of fifty dollar gold coins. We’ll have to split them up to be able to carry them out. I’ll get Isaiah to hitch up a heavy wagon and bring it to the back door, then we’ll set it up in the barn to get all that other stuff. I’m gonna go and pick me a good horse out, since that sorry sumbitch killed mine.”

“I know how you feel, Eli. I still get mad when I think about that sorry ass Parkins boy killin’ my horse. Least ways we done killed both them cowardly horse killin’ bastards now,” Duncan told him.

Eli found Isaiah and his women out where they’d buried T.F. Miles without even a coffin. He didn’t blame them; he didn’t really deserve to be buried.

“Isaiah, get a heavy wagon and hitch a team of mules to it. I’m takin’ all them guns and some of the boxes of papers and stuff for evidence. I saw some land deeds down in the cellar. I’m gonna look them over and find the one to this place. I’m gonna make up a bill of sale and sign the deed over to you and your women for all you been through here.”

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 105

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 15

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 35

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 14

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 19

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 17

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 20

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 6

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 11

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 22

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 9

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 78

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 28

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 32

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 26

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 46

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 39

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 107

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 101

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 31

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 76

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 27

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 110

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 111

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 37

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 98

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 69

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 18

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 102

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 36

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 42

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 33

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 5

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 62

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 34

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 97

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 109

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 56

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 84

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 99

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 108

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 41

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 92

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 12

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 29

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 71

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 73

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 53

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 30

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 48

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 13

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 89

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

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The Legend of Eli CrowChapter 67

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

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