Lonely Dove
Here he was below the border, about to run off a huge horse herd, and in a few
days or weeks he would be going up the trail to a place he had barely even heard of. Most of the cowpokes who went
north from Lonesome Dove just went to Kansas and thought that was far—but Montana must be twice as far. He couldn’t
imagine what such a place would look like. Jake had said it had buffalo and mountains, two things he had never seen, and
snow, the hardest thing of all to imagine. He had seen ridges and hills, and so had a notion about mountains, and he had