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What shapes the legends of the Wickiup? Is it because in the winter

night the wind never sleeps in the gorge above the headquarters shack

that despatchers talk yet of a wind that froze the wolf and the sheep

and the herder to ether? Is it because McGraw runs no rass the night he

sent a plough through eight hundred head of sheep in less than a tenth

as ht that laid the horse and the hunter

side by side in the Spider Park drift have been wildest of all wild

hts? Or is it because Gertrude Brock and her railroad

lover rode out its storether that mountain men say there was never

a storends?

For three days Medicine Bend did not see the sun Veering uneasily,

springing froray clouds

up the ed

passes At the end of the week snoas falling

Not until theof the third day when reports came in of the

unheard-of temperatures in the North and West did the weather cause

real apprehension The division never had been in such a position to