Scratch watched her reluctantly back away, amused at how she continued to stare over her shoulder as she was yanked up that hillside, her eyes transfixed on the tiny corral where the trappers were holding out. Perhaps she even wondered just which one of the cursed whiteskins had killed her beautiful pony. Likely heaping her vilest curses on the man who had gone and soured her powerful medicine that she had been using to spur the naked horsemen to perform their death-defying charges.
“And well you should do your share of the damned killing, Jim Baker,” Bass replied to the redhead as he rocked backward and dragged the long barrel off the horse’s front shoulder.
Scratch swatted at a dozen flies hovering around his sweaty face and tugged the stopper from his powderhorn between his teeth. “Because killin’ ever’ last one of these bastards we can drop afore sundown comes is the only way this bunch of half-dead hide hunters is gonna slip outta here when it gets slap dark.”
*Ride the Moon Down
†Dance on the Wind
BUFFALO PALACE
A Bantam Book
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Bantam hardcover edition / November 1996
Bantam paperback edition / September 1997
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Copyright © 1996 by Terry C. Johnston.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books by this Author
Title Page
Dedication
Map
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
About the Author
Copyright