Author : Andy Adams
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508524694
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)
Book Synopsis Around the Spade Wagon, an Old West Short Story by : Andy Adams
Download or read book Around the Spade Wagon, an Old West Short Story written by Andy Adams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was one day yet before the round-up of the Cherokee Strip. This strip of leased Indian lands was to be worked in three divisions. We were on our way to represent the Coldwater Pool in the western division, on the annual round-up. Our outfit was four men and thirty horses. We were to represent a range that had twelve thousand cattle on it, a total of forty-seven brands. We had been in the saddle since early morning, and as we came out on a narrow divide, we caught our first glimpse of the Cottonwoods at Antelope Springs, the rendezvous for this division. The setting sun was scarcely half an hour high, and the camp was yet five miles distant. We had covered sixty miles that day, traveling light, our bedding lashed on gentle saddle horses. We rode up the mesa quite a little distance to avoid some rough broken country, then turned southward toward the Springs. Before turning off, we could see with the naked eye signs of life at the meeting-point. The wagon sheets of half a dozen chuck-wagons shone white in the dim distance, while small bands of saddle horses could be distinctly seen grazing about.
