The Last of the Plainsmen 



&quot; High, and coming up. If I don t get the other 

 teams over to-day I ll wait until she goes down. At 

 this season she rises and lowers every day or so, 

 until June; then comes the big flood, and we don t 

 cross for months.&quot; 



I sat for three hours watching Emmett bring over 

 the rest of his party, which he did without accident, 

 but at the expense of great effort. And all the time 

 in my ears dinned the roar, the boom, the rumble 

 of this singularly rapacious and purposeful river a 

 river of silt, a red river of dark, sinister meaning, a 

 river with terrible work to perform, a river which 

 never gave up its dead. 



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