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... moved tire- lessly with an easy , ground - eating gait , picking his way carefully among the rocks , cacti and sloping sand drifts of the Basin . The constellations of early evening had swung back behind Grein now as he moved steadily ...
... moved tire- lessly with an easy , ground - eating gait , picking his way carefully among the rocks , cacti and sloping sand drifts of the Basin . The constellations of early evening had swung back behind Grein now as he moved steadily ...
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... moved up the narrow canyon , toward the rim , past lightning - riven juniper trees and fan- tastically eroded rocks , Grein , who ached all over and felt like a man who'd just fallen down a hill- side , reflected that they'd only been ...
... moved up the narrow canyon , toward the rim , past lightning - riven juniper trees and fan- tastically eroded rocks , Grein , who ached all over and felt like a man who'd just fallen down a hill- side , reflected that they'd only been ...
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... moved over a heavy , soundless carpet of pine needles . Three more days passed . They kept working for- ward through the silent timber . But the country seemed to grow emptier and emptier the farther south they moved . In spite of the ...
... moved over a heavy , soundless carpet of pine needles . Three more days passed . They kept working for- ward through the silent timber . But the country seemed to grow emptier and emptier the farther south they moved . In spite of the ...
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adobe Agua Prieta ain't Alta Rio Apache girl Apache Wars asked Grein Atwell began Big Sheep Range bird Black Fox broncos Busby cacti canyon Captain Captain Powell Carmody Chief of Scouts Chuck cigarette Colonel damned dark desert dogs Dutchy eyes face fight Finally fire fool Goddamn going Grein felt Grein glanced Grein rose Grein took Grein turned hand heard hell Hoot Owls horses hostler Indian James Eagle Jarvis Johnny Riggs kill laughed Lieutenant listen looked medicine Mesa Encantada Mexican Mitch and Boze mountains moved never night nodded Nonsuch pale Plenty Plenty coup Porfirio pretty Red Rock Canyon rifle rocks rode Salzedo San Gorgonio seemed shirt side silence slope slowly smile soldiers stared Stinking stood stopped talk thing Toriano town trying W. R. BURNETT walked Walter Weybright woman Yellow Mischief young