1/25 BLEAK MESA--CATTLE DRIFTING BEFORE WIND--" "Pam. bleak mesa--snow--cattle drifting before wind. Dale and Johnny dis. cold--horses leg-weary--boys all in--" Out toward Bear Canyon, where the land to the north rose brokenly to the mountains, Luck found the bleak stretches of which he had dreamed that night on the observation platform of a train speeding through the night in North Dakota,--a great white wilderness unsheltered by friendly forests, uninhabited save by wild things that moved stealthily across its windswept ridges. |