Blue Roan Colt by Dusty Richards

Author:Dusty Richards
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oghma Creative Media

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THAT SPRING, THE MOVIE BUSINESS became a reality. They arrived wearing pith helmets and shorts. He cleared them a site down on the Verde and they moaned and groaned about the wilderness and no phones, claiming that the merchants nearby were robbing them on material prices. But it was just part of the post war days of building material shortages. There had not been any business during the war, so the recovering industry was strapped for suppliers. He’d learned that himself remodeling and expanding the ranch house. He finally found them a lumber company in Prescott that made them a good supplier.

Sam thought Mark could do miracles with what he did hiring local labor and ending up with things as nice as he had. Rosita became his housekeeper, cook, and general supervisor of the ranch when he was gone. She would read the crew the tasks he wanted done when he was in Phoenix or away. A short Mexican war widow in her forties, she ran things well, whether he was there or not.

He planted over forty acres of the large flat land and his new alfalfa drew every deer in Arizona to the field. Each morning and night, his men cleared them out with the noisy shotguns, and they hunted some for meat. The crop prospered and by midsummer they cut and stacked hay. It was a good plan and they made do with the small Ford. Over near Camp Verde, he bought an International with a cable frontend loader and a beaver board. The rest of the cuttings were stacked by the tractor. A team pulled the load delivered on the front end, and then they dragged it up to the top of the board with horses driven by Jones. The haystacks soon were piled high.

His crew beamed over their accomplishments, and so did Mark. In between cuttings, they overhauled the International tractor, got the truck running, and the car, too. But Mark still drove the Lincoln coupe.

Sometimes he thought of the pretty senorita in Nogales, and the evening they’d shared, but he never went back.

When Linda came to star in the movie, he took her on rides over the ranch and she fell in love with Red. Still, he made it clear that friendship was all he wanted. It wasn’t long before they actually enjoyed each other’s company without any complications.

He found the movie making bit boring. They shot every scene over and over again. Sam rented them ranch horses and furnished a power plant on a flatbed truck, all for a fee. Plus, they paid rent to use the ranch itself. Mark chuckled at Sam’s ability to make money, and the money was indeed great in the two months they were there. His three-man crew was paid a hundred dollars a day for working in the film. All of the boys bought new saddles made in Prescott and could not believe the money they earned.

Carlos told him they were going to have a rodeo at Camp Verde and asked him to come along.

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