Tie My Bones to Her Back by Robert F. Jones

Author:Robert F. Jones [Jones, Robert F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2013-04-22T12:00:00+00:00

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THE STORM BLEW out by noon of the following day. As the wind died, the temperature dropped below freezing. From the draws where cottonwoods grew came sharp explosions as the sap in their trunks expanded and split the boles at their weakest places.

Tom and his Elk Soldiers had found a deep, hard-packed drift on the lee slope of a swale and with knives and rifle butts had excavated a snow cave for themselves. Crazy for Horses had cut some poles from a clump of Osage orange saplings and spent much of the night making two pairs of snowshoes from the limber wood. He bent the poles into circles, tied them with rawhide thongs sliced from his apishamore, and webbed them with more of the leather. Walks like Badger’s shoulder wound was ugly but would not kill him. The big bullet had nicked a bone but passed completely through the right shoulder, so that Tom could poke a stick in one end and feel nothing until it emerged from the other side. Walks felt something, all right, but did not complain. Cut Ear built a fire of tinder he kept in a parfleche bag, feeding it with small sticks of wind-brittle Osage orange, then later with buffalo chips he’d dug out of the snow and dried beside the fire. The ceiling of the snow cave glazed over from the fire’s heat and reflected it back on the Elk Soldiers. They ate pemmican and talked and smoked from Crazy’s red pipe. It was warm. Tom slept.

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