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- English
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The Wagons
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You think you know all about prairie dogs but I bet you don't even know this. You see, in the very middle of every prairie dog town and about four feet down there is a pile of gold. Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and market, but he still managed to influence a wide array of today's best writers. Simply on of the best writers the science fiction and fantasy field has ever produced.
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“But when did they have them first? Did they always have them? Who were the first ones to have them?”
“To have what?”
“The wagons. Did they always have wagons?”
“I guess they almost always had them. They had them a long time.”
“Did the Indians have them?”
“No. Not at first. They didn’t have the horse or wagon either at first. But they had the one almost as soon as the other.”
“Did the Spanish have them?”
“Yes, they always had them. They used pack mules too. But they also used the wagon. Why do you ask?”
“Every night after the fire dies down I hear wagons going along the ridge. They sound like real old wagons and I can never find the tracks in the morning. Is that an old wagon road along the ridge?”
“Yes, I think that is an old wagon road. They often went along the ridge just below the sky line.”
Jimmy was nine, and Jim was twenty years older. They both liked to camp out all summer. They traveled in a Ford pickup with an extra drum of gas in the back. They slept on the ground in their rolls and lived on coffee and bacon and flapjacks. They fished in the holes under the cottonwoods and shot jackrabbits and prairie dogs. The father and son were very close on these trips. And they went to ground in the short grass and brush country as though they had lived there for hundreds of years.
“Did they always go west—the wagons?”
“Why no, Jimmy, they couldn’t always go west. They went in all directions.”
“It seems to me they must have gone west most of the time.”
Jimmy hacked out brush with a cradle and bolo. He gathered buffalo chips and cow chips. It was always his job to build the campfire.
“Was there ever a town at Cielito?”
“Yes, there was a little town there once I think, a tent town or a cabin town. I have heard that there was a little town there.”
“I don’t mean a little town. I mean a big town with square after square and wagons solid around them. Was there a big wagon town there a long time ago?”
“I don’t know, Jimmy. I never heard of it.”
“Was there a different kind of wagon that didn’t have the same sort of tongue? It had a different creak, and the horses didn’t sound the same way when they stomp.”
“There were the ox wagons. They were hitched high...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- The Wagons