Reap the Whirlwind (2010)
“Finn Burnett said as he stood in the yard outside his small log home, squinting up into the early sunlight at the three horsemen. “Eight, nine years ago I fought enough Sioux to last me a whole lifetime, Tom. You take care of yourself. All you boys.”
Tom Cosgrove held down his big, hardened hand and shook with Burnett, the first agricultural agent the Eastern Shoshone had on their Wind River Reservation. “When the great war ended, Finn—I thought I’d fought enough to last the rest of my life too.... But now General Crook is marching out to fight the enemies of the Shoshone. Years back I married into the tribe, so I figure that makes it my fight too.”
“Just be sure you come back, Tom,” Burnett echoed, turned and stepped back to the narrow porch on the front of the log house where he had lived for two years.
“We’re coming back, Finn. You can make a mark on that!” roared Nelson Yarnell, another Texan, and Cosgrove’s lieutenant. “And we’ll have us a little cheer when we finally got them Sioux run out of this country for good!”MoreLess
Tom Cosgrove held down his big, hardened hand and shook with Burnett, the first agricultural agent the Eastern Shoshone had on their Wind River Reservation. “When the great war ended, Finn—I thought I’d fought enough to last the rest of my life too.... But now General Crook is marching out to fight the enemies of the Shoshone. Years back I married into the tribe, so I figure that makes it my fight too.”
“Just be sure you come back, Tom,” Burnett echoed, turned and stepped back to the narrow porch on the front of the log house where he had lived for two years.
“We’re coming back, Finn. You can make a mark on that!” roared Nelson Yarnell, another Texan, and Cosgrove’s lieutenant. “And we’ll have us a little cheer when we finally got them Sioux run out of this country for good!”MoreLess
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