Fire on the Mountain by Edward Abbey

Author:Edward Abbey [Abbey, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7953-1739-2
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2011-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

5

I believe it was about two weeks later that the Government drove off our stock.

We were returning to the ranch near sundown, the light blinding our eyes as the sun glared straight through the windshield. In the back of the pickup we carried almost fifty dollars worth of edibles—nearly all of it canned goods and dried beans. The old man was preparing for a long seige.

We also had mail:

For me, a letter from my mother. For Grandfather, a number of letters from the United States Government.

The old man was a little drunk but steering a fairly true course as we bounced along at forty miles an hour toward the entrance gate.

Grandfather pumped the brake pedal and the truck skidded over the rocks and humped to a stop. But before I got out to open the gate we realized that something was wrong—the gate was already wide open.

“What are they up to now?” the old man muttered. He drove the truck through the gateway and stopped. I climbed out to close the gate. I saw new placards made of steel shining at me from the gateposts:

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