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You Come Out of the Mountains One Horse Short and Two Hundred Miles From the Next Post. Now Do the Arithmetic.
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You wake before light because the chestnut mare is down. It is early June, 1848, on the north bank of the North Platte, and the sound that pulled you out of sleep is not a voice but the absence of one, the mare breathing hard and low through her nose and not getting up. The […]