Killdeer Trail by David R Lewis

Author:David R Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: crime, coming of age, western, u s marshals, western frontier fiction, western action and adventure, 1880s gunfighters, western 1880s
Publisher: David R Lewis

It was near dark when we walked back to the livery an’ throwed our rolls. Homer went over to just far enough inside the barn door to git a smoke an’ not git rained on. I drug up a ol’ bucket an’ a nail keg, an’ me an’ Marion took a set. It was kindly nice, restin’ there an’ watching it git dark around that easy rain that was fallin’. I was enjoyin’ it some when Marion spoke up.

“You ain’t fixin’ to be no hero, are ya boy?”

“Nossir,” I tolt him. “They’s enough dead heroes without me jumpin’ in. I just thought a fine lookin’ young fella like me ridin’ into Killdeer outa the northeast like, might not annoy the local population as much as you two hard ol’ planks comin’ in from over thisaway.”

Marion studied on me for a minute. “That ain’t the worst idea I ever heard,” he said. “You don’t look near as bad as Homer does. You might fool ‘em, special comin’ in from the wrong direction. Them folks prob’ly figure that if trouble comes, it’ll come from this way.”

“If you two stay here,” I said, “nobody might even notice that one of us is gone. Cain’t be sure they ain’t somebody over this way that might carry news to them folks.”

Homer turned around and looked at me. “You ain’t gonna have no backup handy, Rube,” he said.

“Doan figger on needin’ it,” I tolt him. “I ain’t fixin’ to arrest nobody or nothin’ like that. Just git the lay a the land an’ such. See what the talk is, how many folks is around, what kinda attitude them people has, an’ things like that. Then git on my way back over here.”

“Might take ya a day or so to git there,” Homer said.

“The Sheriff said they was a crick or stream or something over that way comin’ in from the north an’ east. I figgerd I’d just ride due east from here ‘til I picked up that creek, then, like any other traveler, just foller it southwest into Killdeer. I might have a ways to go on this journey. If I time gittin’ there right, a traveler like me might have need to spend the night, if they is someplace with rooms.”

“No way to know,” Marion said. “Damn shore don’t need to be askin’ too many questions about the place. News travels fast. I don’t want folks over that way waitin’ on ya to show up.”

“Me neither,” I tolt him, an’ took to my roll. It was some unusual, but I believe I was the first one to git to sleep that night. At least I doan recall nobody else snorin’.

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