Swan Peak
“Then he dropped off Albert’s truck in the driveway, and under a gunmetal sky sprinkled with stars that smoked like dry ice, he hitched a ride over Lolo Pass into Idaho.He should have kept going and beat his way on a two-lane back road up through the Idaho Panhandle into Canada. The international frontier was a sieve, and everyone knew it. All he had to do was get into British Columbia and go on the drift again. In Canada, logging was subsidized, and the exportation of lumber to the United State...s was booming. If he got tired of whittling trees, he could catch the wheat harvest in Alberta, or work the cod and salmon trawlers on the coast, or beat his way on up to Alaska. There were still streams in Alaska that had float gold in them, and veins in the mountains that a pick had never glazed. The choices were his. If he just stayed in motion, that was the trick.Stay in E-major overdrive and don’t think, he told himself. Flat-wheelers and hotshots were still free, the world of the side-door Pullman no different than it was in 1931.MoreLess
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