Bendigo Shafter (1979)
“Well, what did you make of it? The voice was a strange one, the tone pleasant, somewhat speculative, I thought.
I made it out to be a mistake, I said quietly. I know who founded this town and when, and there was nobody named Finnerly present.
That kind of talk could get a man into trouble, the speaker said. I'd soft pedal it, if I were you.
You're not me, I replied quietly. This settlement was put together by a small party of people who wished for security, who wished to build something honest, something worth having and keeping. There seem to have been some changes.
He was walking toward me and I could make him out now. He was a shorter man than I, blocky of build, older I'd guess. He carried a rifle.
The people who first settled the town are outnumbered now. They are peaceful people with families and homes. Most of the newcomers are without families and they couldn't care less about peace.
There has been gold found here, and these men have come in hoping to pick up what can be found.
Guest 2 years ago
Why does L'Amour always describe his characters as standing "wide legged" or "spraddling legged"...Did he have a fetish about crotch itch or something??? I can see that Finnerty and his pals will eventually make off with whatever valuables available, but not before one or more start bothering the young girls. .... I also think that the Indian has been expelled from his village, not sure but it seems to me so ...or he soon will. Far too contentious a person.
Guest 2 years ago
If the logs tapered from 18 inches to 12, then they'd have to be placed with every second one upside down as to fill out the deep V gaps which would be left if each bottom was 18". I suppose L'amour didn';t think of that, ...to engrossed in his phony philosophising about trees breathing. In those early years this was not know . Only in the 20th century did itcome to light.n
Guest 8 months ago
Short Bull seems to be about 14-15 so how old could his grandfather be...maybe late 50S BOT MUCH MORE. lmour afian very loos with his figuring and so calle dating. . As he says, he's astorytellwe, and not many stories are in any wat truthful, unless whatever he's copied from books.He constantly has illiterate cowbots giving exact dates of events that happened maybe 200 years before, a gross error of writing.
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