Long Winter Gone: Son of the Plains - volume 1
“By late morning Custer’s scouts ran across a second and larger campground. The number of fire pits indicated the village had grown to twenty-five lodges.
More surprising still, by the next day, 12 March, Jack Corbin tallied better than a hundred sets of travois poles scratching the earth, joining the northbound march of the Cheyenne war camps.
“By glory, Jack!” Custer cheered at the news, happier than he had been in weeks. “We’ve flushed ’em like a covey of prairie hens now. We’ll herd them on ...ahead of us until they’re gathered up.”
“And you’re ready to strike.” Corbin picked something off the trail. “We’re right behind ’em. Trail’s warm.”
“Horse apples?”
“Though they ain’t steaming, they’re still warm to the touch.” Corbin crumbled one in his threadbare mitten.
“How far ahead of us?”
“Two, maybe three days, the way they’re lollygagging along.” It was Milner who answered this time. “Don’t seem they know we’re fixing to run up their backsides neither.”MoreLess
More surprising still, by the next day, 12 March, Jack Corbin tallied better than a hundred sets of travois poles scratching the earth, joining the northbound march of the Cheyenne war camps.
“By glory, Jack!” Custer cheered at the news, happier than he had been in weeks. “We’ve flushed ’em like a covey of prairie hens now. We’ll herd them on ...ahead of us until they’re gathered up.”
“And you’re ready to strike.” Corbin picked something off the trail. “We’re right behind ’em. Trail’s warm.”
“Horse apples?”
“Though they ain’t steaming, they’re still warm to the touch.” Corbin crumbled one in his threadbare mitten.
“How far ahead of us?”
“Two, maybe three days, the way they’re lollygagging along.” It was Milner who answered this time. “Don’t seem they know we’re fixing to run up their backsides neither.”MoreLess
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