Beyond Squaw Creek (2010)
“To his right, several men moved out of the officers’ quarters, some flanked by their wives, to peer pensively west, toward the flickering firelight and the eerie, primitive drum cadence.On the south side of the parade ground, noncoms and enlisted men wandered out of their barracks, muttering curiously, some smoking or holding tin coffee cups, suspenders hanging off their shoulders, hair tussled by the warm spring breeze.Fargo approached the stockade wall where soldiers were clumped along the sh...ooting ledge, staring west and whispering. He climbed a ladder and moved left along the ledge, toward three young soldiers huddled together, speaking in low, enervated tones. One held a quirley to his lips as he and the others peered over the wall’s sharpened log tips.“Put out that cigarette, soldier,” Fargo admonished.The three privates jerked their heads toward him with a start. The quirley dropped to the floor of the ledge, sparking, and the lanky private crushed it under the heel of a scuffed brogan.Peering west, Fargo said, “One of you boys have a spyglass?”The soldiers shuffled around to his left, and then a brass-chased binocular was thrust at the Trailsman’s shoulder.MoreLess
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