The Rider of Ruby Hills (1986)
“Fine white dust hung in a shifting cloud above the wagon train, caking the nostrils of animals and men, blanketing the lean sides of oxen and horses, dusting with a thin film the clothing of men and women.
Red-rimmed and bloodshot eyes stared with dazed weariness into the limitless distance before them, seeing nothing, knowing nothing. Long since all had been forgotten but heat, dust, and aching muscles. Each succeeding step lifted a powdery dust, stifling and irritating. It lay a foot deep on ...the endless plain, drowning the sparse grass and sage.
Rock Bannon, riding away from the train and alone, drew in his steel-dust stallion and turned in the saddle, looking back over the covered wagons, sixteen of them in a long line with some lead horses and a few outriders, yet not one who rode so far out as himself.
From where he sat he could not see their faces, but in the days just past he had seen them many times, and the expression of each was engraved in his mind. Haggard, worn, hungry for rest and cool water, he knew that in the secret heart of each was a longing to stop.MoreLess
Red-rimmed and bloodshot eyes stared with dazed weariness into the limitless distance before them, seeing nothing, knowing nothing. Long since all had been forgotten but heat, dust, and aching muscles. Each succeeding step lifted a powdery dust, stifling and irritating. It lay a foot deep on ...the endless plain, drowning the sparse grass and sage.
Rock Bannon, riding away from the train and alone, drew in his steel-dust stallion and turned in the saddle, looking back over the covered wagons, sixteen of them in a long line with some lead horses and a few outriders, yet not one who rode so far out as himself.
From where he sat he could not see their faces, but in the days just past he had seen them many times, and the expression of each was engraved in his mind. Haggard, worn, hungry for rest and cool water, he knew that in the secret heart of each was a longing to stop.MoreLess
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Guest 9 months ago
That "strange" rumble that Lamour brings into the yarn now, is redundant. A very loos piece of lack of detail. He writes as if the Rumble is a new phenomenon, wheras he must have heard it before hundreds of times whilst building his house and ploughing and planting his acreage when "proving up".
Guest 9 months ago
Is there any point in ploughing back under the tree. It "might" be acceptable for prooving jp on the land, I don't think so as nothing planted there would grow without sun.Write Review:
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