Where the West begins

Hall, Austin · 1933

Billy was only a cowboy and Holman was something of a cattle king, but social distinctions didn’t figure with the U. S. marshal. Billy waited. Out in the sagebrush a black object was shunting hither and thither over the desert road, sometimes lost in the dipping swales and again hidden by the glare of the sun scintillating upon the wind shield. From the lee of the machine a ribbon of dust trailed out into the distance. Billy put on his hat and spoke to his pinto, reining him to a slight knoll to the left whence he could get a good view of the whole country. Says Billy to the pinto:…

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