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"Oh, God keep you, Will!" she said in her heart, and al you back to ons closed up oncebeyond one caed haste

The caravan course now lay along the great valley of the Snake The

giant deeds of the river in its cañons they could only guess They heard

of treue

ruh

plateaus, dipping down to the crossings of many sharp streams, which in

the first month of their journey they would have called i now not twenty miles daily, but no

It was fall Back

hoes of the corn would be seared

with frost

The vast abundance of ga now lacked Sohtly coyotes--thaton their flanks lacked the stature and the brave trappings

of the buffalo plainsmen They lived on horse meat and salmon, so the

rumor came Now their environment took hold of the Pacific They had

left the East wholly behind

On the salood as the buffalo,