Curious Weather Chapter One

St. Louis, Missouri August 1880The mulish expression on Mr. Tracy’s face told me he was about to bolt again.He still did not look well—he’d lost weight over the summer, which his rawboned frame could ill-afford to lose, and his skin still had the bloodless tinge of fever and exhaustion. But he was dressed and his “plunder,” as his roughneck brethren call it, was packed and piled on the Turkish