Author : Andy Adams
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508527749
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (277 download)
Book Synopsis The Double Trail, an Old West Short Story by : Andy Adams
Download or read book The Double Trail, an Old West Short Story written by Andy Adams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the summer of '78 we were rocking along with a herd of Laurel Leaf cattle, going up the old Chisholm trail in the Indian Territory. The cattle were in charge of Ike Inks as foreman, and had been sold for delivery somewhere in the Strip. There were thirty-one hundred head, straight "twos," and in the single ranch brand. We had been out about four months on the trail, and all felt that a few weeks at the farthest would let us out, for the day before we had crossed the Cimarron River, ninety miles south of the state line of Kansas. The foreman was simply killing time, waiting for orders concerning the delivery of the cattle. All kinds of jokes were in order, for we all felt that we would soon be set free. One of our men had been taken sick, as we crossed Red River into the Nations, and not wanting to cross this Indian country short-handed, Inks had picked up a young fellow who evidently had never been over the trail before.