Flashman and the Redskins by George Macdonald Fraser

Author:George Macdonald Fraser [Fraser, George Macdonald]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Action & Adventure, Novels, Historical, Cultural Heritage
ISBN: 9780007217175
Publisher: Citadel
Published: 1982-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

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Two days later our caravan started west for the South Pass, and I rode out that morning in a great contentment, as though I were coming to the end of a long trek-which was odd, with more than a thousand miles of prairie and salt desert and Rocky Mountain to cross to the coast, and long sea-leagues beyond that to England. But you know how it is-sometimes you know that a chapter is closing, as surely as though you were shutting a door behind you. As I swung aboard the little Arab, and heard the cry of "All set!" echoing down the wagon line, and heard the whips crack and the teamsters yell and the wheels groan forward-I knew I was nearing the end of that frightful journey which had begun when John Charity Spring strode into my hotel room at Poole and started raving in Latin; a journey that had carried me to the wilds of Dahomey and skirmishes with great black-titted females, through chases and sea-battles to New Orleans and desperate flights and escapes on the Mississippi, from brothels to plantations to slave-marts to that homely front-hall where I'd quaked and bled while an ugly, gangling young lawyer stuck his chin out and braved my ruffianly pursuers; and since then I'd rogered my way ouf of the law's clutches, across the prairies to the terrors of Bent's Fort and the Del Norte and the Dead Man's Journey … but it was all past and done with, and soon I would be taking ship for home. And Elspeth and soft beds and green fields and strolls down the Haymarket and white whores for a change and cricket and rides in the Park and hunting and decent cigars and conversation and everything that makes life worth living. By gum, I'd earned it.

And as for their damned redskins and prairie wagons and buckskins and bear's grease and painted faces and buffalo grass and sweat-baths and plug-a-plew and war-whoops and Mountain Men-well, they could keep 'em all for me.

They did.

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