Eaten Alive snorted out smoke. We came down long ago from very far to the north, from the Snake River, a very long time ago. We drove out the Wichita and the Osage and the Lipan Apache and the Tonkawa from Texas. And so it is ours. I know the country, every canyon and cave from the Canadian River to the Rio Grande. I could travel that country in the dark. I have done so. I could tell you every spring of water from here and on beyond the Mexican towns. Why should we stay here? Big Pants wanted us to stay here too. Now he is gone. This man will go too, sometime in the future. I am not a man to
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A tragedy of enormous proportions.
