Lonely Dove
Jake that morning had mentioned the Milk River, a stream he ha
never heard of. He knew the country he knew, and had never been lost in it, but the country he knew stopped at th
Arkansas River. He had known men speak of the Yellowstone as if it were the boundary of the world; even Kit Carson
whom he had met twice, had not talked of what lay north of it
But then his memory went back to a camp they had made on the Brazos, many years before, with an Army captain; ther
was a Delaware scout with him who had been farther than any man they knew—all the way to the headwaters of th