Lonely Dove
All his life he had heard talk of
the plains that had no end, and of Indians and buffalo and all the creatures that lived on them. Mr. Gus had even talked of
great bears, so thick that bullets couldn’t kill them, and deerlike creatures called elk, twice the size of ordinary deer.
Now, in only a few days, he would be going north, a prospect so exciting that for hours at a stretch he was taken away
from himself, into imaginings. He continued to do his normal work, although his mind wasn’t really on it. He could