CHAPTER 26 THE WORLD IS TURNING

CHEROKEE BILL BEEN ON TRAIL FOR TWO DAY. HE WAS AT THE TRADING POST THAT JACK JOHNSON KILL THE TWO RED LEGS AT. BILL HAD SAM WITH HIM AND WAS GETTING SUPPLIES FOR HIM SELF ,WHEN STORE OWNER SAID HEY ANT YOU CHEROKEE BILL?

CHEROKEE BILL UUUM THAT ME!

STORE OWNER YOU GET GRAY RIDER?

CHEROKEE BILL YES WE GET, WE HAD CORNERED HE BLEW HIS HEAD OFF THAN SURRENDER.

I GOT HIS HORSE ,,I BUY.

STORE OWNER I GIVE YOU ALL SUPPLY'S YOU WANT FOR THAT SADDLE WITH J J ON IT. IT WORTH SOME MONEY,

CHEROKEE BILL I WILL TRADE IF THROW IN A BACK PACK FOR HORSE. Bill in thinking that saddle cause jack lot trouble, best he get rid of it.

STORE OWNER YOU GOT A DEAL BILL.

CHEROKEE BILL HERE YOU TAKE ,GIVE ME A BACK PACK AND RACK.

WAS NOT LONG BILL HAD NEW RACK FOR SAM AND HIS SUPPLY'S ON SAM AND WAS ON WAY TO RED BEAR CAMP TO SEE JACK.

MEAN TIME COLONEL ROBERSON HAD HIS MUSTER OUT PAY, AND AT SMALL TOWN OUT SIDE FORT RILEY. HE BOUGHT HIM A 18 FOOT CONESTOGA WAGON AND 7 MORGAN'S PLOW HORSES AND HORN ICE FOR 4 UP HITCH. COLONEL ROBERSON ALSO BOUGHT TWO HENRYS AND 10 BOXES CARTAGES.100LB FLOOR. THREE SIDES SALT MEAT AND HAD BOX BUILD IN SIDE TO KEEP MEAT IN.20 LB COFFEE, POTS AND SKELLETS.THREE 20 GAL WATER BARROWS, TWO ON OUT SIDE 1 IN SIDE. ALL HORSE SHOED AND READY FOR A LONG TRIP.

COLONEL ROBERSON I USE THE MARES TO PULL THE WAGON ,,THAT BIG STUD WILL NOT MATCH UP RIGHT WITH A MARE IN THE TEAM REST FOLLOW ALONG BEHIND. NOW GET THEM HITCH UP AND GO TO FORT DODGE GET THE BOY. colonel Roberson been along so much just talk to himself as he goes along with business.

SOON HE HAS THE MORGAN MATCH UP RIGHT AND IN THE HITCH. REST TIED OFF BE HIND, HE STILL GOT 400 CASH LEFT. HE STEPS UP INTO WAGON, GRAB THE RAINS AND KICKS OFF THE BREAK,

COLONEL ROBERSON HEHAAAL GET UP LUCY. MARY .GEEE HAA THERE WAS A CRACK OF THE WHIP OVER THE HEADS OF THE MORGAN'S AND THE COLONEL WAS ON WAY FORT DODGE. AT BLISTERING PACE OF 5 MILES A HOUR.

JACK LIZZIE AND SUSIE AND CRAZY DOG PLUS 4 MORE BRAVES HAD LEFT THE VILLAGE TO CATCH MUSTANGS. RED BEAR SENT CRAZY DOG WITH JACK FOR TWO REASONS ,HE AND JACK WAS GREAT FRIENDS, SECOND REASON CRAZY DOG GET DRUNK IF DID NOT KEEP HIM BESSIE.

THAT'S WAY JACK FOUND HIM AT TRADING POST {REMEMBER}. THEY HAD FOUND THE WILD HORSES AND ALSO FOUND A BOX CANYON THAT HAD WATER AND GRASS IN IT.

THEY WORK FOR TWO DAY TO ALMOST SEAL OFF THE ENTRANCE TO CANYON.THEY HAD BUILD A FENCE OUT POLES AND LEFT A OPEN THAT REQUIRE TWO POLES SLID INTO PLACE TO SEAL IT OFF. IT WAS EARLY NEXT MORNING ALL QUIET. A DEER WAS GRAZING OUT ON MEADOW, HE LOOKS UP AND OFF IN DISTANCE THERE IS A LOW RUMBLE. THE DEER FLASH THE WHITE OF TAIL AND HE GONE OFF IN A DEAD RUN,

THE NEXT THING THERE LIZZIE WITH LEAD STALLION RIDING LIKE THE WIND THEN A 100 MORE HORSE BE HIND HER. TWO INDIANS RIDING ON THE SIDES, AND JACK AND SUSIE BRING UP THE REAR ,YES THEY HAD THE HOLD HEARD ON THE RUN AND LIZZIE WAS HEADING THE LEAD INTO THE BOX CANYON. SUSIE WAS SHOWING SHE CAN RIDE GIRL RIDE. JACK WAS WITH HER OUT TO THE RIGHT WHEN HIS HORSE GOES DOWN AND JACK GOES FLYING OVER HIS HEAD. THE LAST THING YOU SEE IS HIS RIGHT FOOT WAS CAUGHT IN THE STIRRUP AND THERE WAS A SNAP AS HE BROKE LOSE FROM IT.

SUSIE SHE DOES NOT SEE JACK GO DOWN SHE PUSHING FORM THE REAR.LIZZIE CUTS OUT TO THE RIGHT AS THE LEAD STALLION GOES THREW THE HOLE IN THE FENCE AND RIDE BACK TO HELP IN BACK TO KEEP THEM FROM TURN BACK. LIZZIE FILL IN JACK SPOT AS THEY PUSH THE LAST THREW THE OPEN, TWO INDIANS PUSH THE LAST TWO POST IN PLACE AND THEY GOT THE HOLD HEARD TRAP IN THE CANYON.

LIZZIE WHERE JACK?

SUSIE HE WAS OUT THERE ON MY RIGHT. RIGHT BACK THERE.

LIZZIE O DEAR GOD NOT ANOTHER MAN.

LIZZIE COME ON SUSIE HE MAY BE HURT.

SUSIE I DID NOT SEE HIM GO DOWN, HE WAS THERE; WE WAS PUSHING THEM AND THEN HE NOT HERE,

THEY RIDE OF LOOKING FOR JACK.

JACK RAISE HIS HEAD HAD BLOOD IN HIS EYES. WIPE AWAY THE BLOOD TO SEE FLAP JACK HIS NEW HORSE LAYING THERE WITH BOTH FRONT LEGS BROKEN. JACK TRYING TO MOVE HIS RIGHT LEG IS TWISTED JACK KNOWS HE AND HORSE IN SAME SHAPE. JACK PULL HIS PISTOL AND CRAWS OVER TO HIS HORSE.

JACK WELL FLAP JACK YOU ONLY ONE LIKE MY PANCAKES OR EAT THEM. NOW IT TIME WE SAY GOOD BY MY FRIEND, the horse is trying to get up just nothing to get up on.

JACK YOU GOING BE IN BETTER SHAPE THAN ME, I DIE SLOWLY. He pull his pistol and take aim.

BOOOM the horse just drops in his spot.

JACK WELL WHO TO SHOOT ME? GUESS IT A SELF DEAL .he turn his pistol to his head. When he hear a pistol shot way off.

JACK IT IS LIZZIE he point his pistol in air BOOM. I GOT TO SAY GOOD BY "I OWE HER THAT."

LIZZIE HEAR THE SHOT COME BACK ,, """""HE ALIVE""""

SUSIE SOUND LIKE HE OVER THERE.

THEY RIDE HARD FOR 200 YARDS LIZZIE PULL HER PISTOL AND FIRE IT IN AIR.

JACK YA BABY YOU GETTING CLOSE, HE FIRE TWO MORE IN AIR BOOM BOOM.

SUSIE HE RIGHT OVER THE RIDGE THERE.

LIZZIE AND SUSIE RIDE OVER THE RIDGE TO LAY EYES ON A SHOCKING SITE. THE HORSE DEAD JACK LEG BROKEN WITH BONE SHOWING.

LIZZIE O JACK BABY I AM SO GLAD YOU ALIVE.

JACK FOR NOW LIZZIE, NOT MUCH HOPE WITH ME BUSTED UP LIKE THIS.

LIZZIE JACK YOU STOP THAT RIGHT NOW. WE HELP YOU ,,

JUST THEN CRAZY DOG RODE UP.

LIZZIE CRAZY DOG YOU RIDE LIKE THE WIND ,BRING BACK SPOTTED DEER, AND RED BEAR. WE GET JACK TO CAMP.

SUSIE FOUND COUPLE POLES AND HAD A BLANKET OVER THEM AND TIED TO BACK HER HORSE. AND BLANKET TIED WITH ROPE.

SUSIE LIZZIE HELP ME GET JACK ON THIS. two more braves ride up and help the women put jack on the litter.

JACK TELL THEM GET MY SADDLE AND MY RIFLE .YOU MAY NEED IT LIZZIE. I WANT.

LIZZIE JACK STOP THAT YOU NEED THAT RIFLE AGAIN HUN WE SEE TO IT.SUSIE GET HIS PISTOL BE FORE HE DOES ANY THING STUPID.

JACK BABY I JUST HAD TO SEE YOU AGAIN TO SAY GOOD BY.

LIZZIE ""JACK""" STOP THAT SHIT OR ILL KILL YOU MY SELF.

SUSIE I'LL HELP HER TOO.

SOON THEY HAD JACK BACK AT CAMP. AND JACK ON HIS BED ROLL.

LIZZIE SUSIE GET THAT JUG OUT THE SUPPLY ,BRING IT HERE

SUSIE HERE THE JUG,

JACK YA BABY I COULD USE A DRINK TODAY,

LIZZIE YOU GET A DRINK OK.then she pore it in the hole the bone sticking out of.

JACK O SHIT LIZZIE THAT'S MOON SHINE, NOT WHISKEY THAT'S 150 PROOF.

LIZZIE STRONGER IT IS BETTER CHANCE YOU GOT, she pore more in the open hole.

JACK O GOD SAVE ME FROM THIS WOMAN,

SUSIE PORE MORE IN THERE SOME GOOD MORE BETTER.

JACK YEEEELLLLOOOOO. jack pass out

LIZZIE WE NEED IT TO KEEP WONE CLEAN, NOT FOR HIM TO DRINK NOW, HE GET HIS DRINK WHEN SPOTTED DEER SET THAT LEG ,,HE NEED IT THEN

SUSIE YOU THINK HE MAKE IT LIZZIE?

LIZZIE HE SUCH A STRONG MAN, HE CAN IF ANY BODY CAN. I JUST DO NOT KNOW.

Susie hold lizzie as lizzie sobs on her shoulder, and Susie looks down on jack ,he past out.

SUSIE CRAZY DOG RIDE LIKE YOU NEVER RODE BEFORE.