Paqe 6
Friday, March 21, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
authority ot the Secretary of the In
terior and the President of ths
United States;
namely certuin
HUGH S.
lands . . ,"
He droned through his preamble
perfunctorily; everyone in the crowd
knew exactly what was involved.
w. N.U. Release
Something mart than land was here
changing hands. To hold the Crying
INSTALLMENT I
Wolf would all but mean supremacy
THE STORY AND THE AUTHOR—
in the not th. But this thing was
Alan LeMay*s reputation as a writer
detail. Unlike many metropolitan writers
LcMay'g "The Smoky Years" is a
Washington. P. V.
to rapidly growing among readers who
(lowing, vividly written western ro bigger than that. The two organiza
of western Action, he knows that part
REVOLT
UNDER
HITLER
prefer a good western story to any other
mance which containa all the speed tions which here clashed again were
of the country Intimately, and can set It
Napoleon conquered a lurge part
sort ot book. He has outstanding ability
on paper without Iosins much ot the
and colorful detail that la making him the great powers of the trulls; be
of Europe. Because he had some
to make his charac’ers live against a
freshness and feeling of the plains and
so popular today. It la his best work. hind each of them were whole coun
idea of a sort of United Statin of
background that is accurate to the Anest
Don't miss HI
mountains.
ties of Texas mesquite grass plains,
a a a
• a •
that continent, semi-sovereign states
great
areas
of
the
middle
short
CHAPTER I
I run a crooked one. nor a square his old soft hat, nor the cracking
united in a loose league, he nllowed
| trick where he could play a mean ring of the spurs he was believed to grass country, scores of outfits. The the conquered countries a good deal
struggle between them had devel
This was the crisis—the climax of one; it's a long time since he rode sleep in.
oped with the Chisholm trail itself of leeway. Perhaps his further idea
The trail years had leathered his
ell that long war. Here they sat, all night with his rifle in his hands,
—a decade-long combat between of putting his own people, family
these men who had fought a common but Lew, if he isn't stopped—there's face, but they could not diminish his
men of diametrically opposed prin or fellow soldiers, on the thrones of
enemy for so long: Dusty King, who, plenty he can hire to do his dark- gay exuberance; just as prosperity ciples and methods. And now—
several of these states had some
was unable to take from him the look
with the hoofs of countless cattle, of-the-moon stuff now.”
"This land,” the deputy commis thing to do with his liberality.
"Dusty,” Lew Gordon said, "we’ve of the trail. Whatever Dusty King
had carved many a Great Plains
Whatever the reason, he didn't es
sioner concluded, "is thrown into
trail deep into the short grass; young blocked him every way we could." wore, he always appeared to be
blocks. I think, gentlemen, you are ercise a close enough control to
"That's why he’ll get you. and wearing disreputable saddle clothes.
Bill Roper, who had begun follow
already familiar with the placement keep some of them conquered. In
Perhaps young Bill Roper had
ing those trails with Dusty King be me too. in the end.”
of the lands. Block 1 includes, as Prussia, Scharnhorst and Stein i*f
Again the silence closed, with be picked up a lot of Dusty King's char
fore he was big enough to hold a
previously agreed, an estimated one fectually evaded his disarmament
horse; and old Lew Gordon. Texas hind it the perpetual bawling of the acteristics in the course of an asso
hundred sections, or sixty-four thou decrees by using the permitted
man, whose wild marketless herds cattle, far off in the spring night ciation that had lasted almost as
sand acres, known hereinafter as small Prussian army in a new con
Dusty King said casually, "Cleve long as Bill Roper's life.
had been the roots of fortune.
'Block 1*; bounded on the north cept, not as a fixed regular estab
Everybody who knew King-Gordon
Dusty King and Lew Gordon con Tanner's here.”
lishment but as a military train!'.g
by—"
Bill Roper saw Lew Gordon's eyes at all knew the story of Bill Roper
stituted King-Gordon, the famous
school through which they rushed
Cleve
Tanner
ieuned
close
to
Ben
partnership that had developed with flick up to look at Dusty King. and Dusty King. Fifteen years ago,
yearly classes of recruits as rapid
at the age of five. Bill Roper had Thorite, whispered, and Thorpe nod ly as possible. In this way, they
the great cattle trails; until now "Cleve Tanner?"
ded.
been found hiding in the brush, like a
their many brands marked far-scat
"Here in Ogallala."
forged the forces which finally sent
"I shouldn't think,” said the depu
tered herds beyond estimate. They
"What the devil's the meaning of little rabbit, beside a wrecked outfit ty commissioner, "we need hear any Napoleon first to Elba and later,
on the old trail to Sedalia. It was
were here because of tomorrow’s that?"
after Waterloo, to St. Helena.
Dusty King who had found him bid of less than ten cents per year, Napoleon just wasn't tough enough.
auction of land leases. Under the
"Cleve and Walk Latham are the
per acre.”
hammer would go the grazing rights only two of Ben Thorpe's men that there; and it was Dusty King who
We do a good deal of talking about
There was a moment’s silence,
on the Crying Wolf Indian lands— raided the cross timbers with him in had buried the bullet-shattered body
our great liberal free union of semi
and
the
deputy
commissioner
got
out
those miles and miles of stirrup the old days; the only two he can of Bill's father beside that God-for
a big silk handkerchief and mopped sovereign states, the United States
saken trail.
deep grass that King-Gordon want really trust, now.”
his
head, as King now let a slow of America. But we frequently for
In the fifteen years since then.
ed, and that Ben Thorpe had to have.
"It's natural that Walk Lasham
smile
come to the surface of his get that, so far as the States of the
It was curious that their long war should be here.” Lew Gordon con Bill Roper had learned guns and
impassive
face. A curious rumble old Southorn Confederacy are con
with Ben Thorpe should have met its ceded; “but Cleve Tanner, all the horses and cattle, and the tricks of
ran
over
the
room, and the crowd cerned. there was nothing free or
the trail as only Dusty King knew
true climax here. The three in this way up from the Big Bend—”
liberal about it. We forced them
seemed
to
sway.
them. He had been able to read
room understood that the outcome
to remain in the Union at the points
"Shows you,” Dusty King said,
"I
got
a
proposition,
”
Dusty
King
prairie signs before be could read
would rest upon what the two older
of bayonets.
"what store they set on the Crying
I print, and if it had not been for said. "Nobody is bidding on this
men decided here. Possession of the
It is worth remembering because,
Wolf lands.
Ben Thorpe is sold
tomato can labels, perhaps would land but just us two; nobody means after the Treaty of Versailles, the
Crying Wolf meant dominance in
mighty deep into next year's deliv
to
bid.
Throw
the
whole
thing
In
one
never have learned to read print
the north to King-Gordon, or to Ben
and
: Allies, especially
England
eries. Already he's committed for
at all. Everything he knew he had pot and we'll bid on the works.”
Thorpe; there was no longer going
same
France,
made
exactly
the
more northern-fed cattle than he can
•’I'll agree to that," Thorpe de
learned with Dusty King. There
to be room for both.
mistake that Napoleon had made
was every reason that he should cided. The black anger in his face | and made it with exactly the same
"This is an old fight. Lew,” Dusty
had
submerged
again,
so
that
ho
have grown to look something like
King said. "It goes back as far as
I warlike people, the Germans.
the great trail driver who had was poker-eyed.
that first time you backed me with a
There was never a time, up to 1030
The
deputy
commissioner
was
be
brought him up.
little herd, to see if I could make it
at least, when with the controls at
ginning
to
look
like
a
man
who
Now, as they made their way
through to Abilene. Don’t hardly
their command, they couldn't have
down the muddy street, before the wished he were some place else.
seem like we better draw back
stopped Hitler, as Winston Churchill
“
If
there
are
no
objections
—
"
false-fronted wooden buildings, half
now."
continuously
urged that they should
“Fifty cents," said Dusty King.
the cowmen that thronged Ogallala
Lew Gordon stirred, swaying his
do. They didn't. As Napoleon had
Ben
Thorpe'S
face
had
turned
■
hailed Dusty with comradeship and
shoulders imperceptibly, like a stub
done earlier, and as the North did
delight; so that his progress was curious color, not gray, certainly I not do after the Civil war. they per
born bear. "Credit's going to be
that of a celebrated character, al not bloodless; an odd congested col mitted the conquered country to
terrible hard, this coming year," he
ready famous. The other half—they or, like dark sand. “Fifty-five," be
said at last
build up an overwhelming military
were Ben Thorpe men—seemed not said.
I superiority. under their very noses,
Dusty King seemed to sprawl a
"Sixty."
to see him at all. It was hard to
Now the situation is reversed.
little more loosely; he was playing
tell which tickled Dusty King more
"Sixty-five.*
’
,
. Hitler ells astride most of Europe.
poker in a way of his own. Swag
—the warmth of his many friends, or
"K dollar,” said Dusty King.
He has disarmed it and made Ila
gering, easy-going, spendthrift—he
the bitterness of his Innumerable
"A dollar, five."
vast military booty part of his own
still was a man who believed in
| enemies.
“Just in confidence between you forces. He. like Napoleon, also con
vincibly in himself.
The bidding for the Crying Wolf and me.” Dusty King said; "Mr.
templates some kind of compul
“I passed Ben Thorpe K the road,
lands was being held In a disused Thorpe can't pay that"
sory United States of Europe Some
today,” he said. “He was looking
store, and here the sidewalk and
“I think my name is good any observers, reverting to the Napole
mighty prosperous. I bet he weighs
half the street were filled with knot where in the cow country," Thorpe onic failure, say that it can't be
two hundred and twenty-five pounds
ted groups.
Through this crowd said to the commissioner.
done—that his conquest will collapse
now, with his stomach pulled in."
Dusty King and Bill Roper waded.
through counter-revolution caused
“It ain’t good here,” said King.
"His backing is terrible strong,”
Dusty trying to look like something
by a combination of interior strains
Lew Gordon said, his eyes on the
The
deputy
commissioner
slapped
bewildered, from the tall country.
and stresses with outside pressure.
floor.
his
pen
down
on
the
table.
“
Gentle
Beside the door was posted a hand
Will it? Napoleon, himself, fre
No one knew better than Lew Gor
bill in black type, giving due legal men." he said, "I'm sorry to do this;
quently said that all empires of con
but
in
the
interests
of
the
govern
don that Dusty King, in tackling the
notice of the auction of leases, and
quest die of indigestion from over
impossible a hundred times, bad a
Dusty stopped to study this with a ment, and of the Indian Department eating and referred to the crackups
which
I
represent,
all
further
bids
hundred times shown the way for
grave empty face, as if he had
in this auction will be accepted only , of the empires of Alexander, the
the rest. But Gordon remembered
never heard of it before.
( Romans. Ghengls Khan. Charle-
as
representing American gold."
too the poverty of the cattle-poor
I magne and the Caliphates of Bagh
"Mr.
King,** somebody said.
Maybe thirty-five cents an
“Cash on the nail?" King asked.
days before any outlet was found for
"they've beer waiting for you. fully
acre.”
Texas beef. To risk all they had
“Immediate payment In Ogalla dad and Cordova.
an hour."
On all the evidence to date. Hitler
won, in a single slashing stroke at show—unless he can get the Crying
la.” There was no question now
Dusty looked blame.
Then he
an old enemy, was almost more than Wolf.”
about the sweat that stood out on is not likely to repeat the blunders
clutched his hat to his head in a
of Napoleon and the Allies through
Gordon could bear.
Slowly Lew Gordon got a frayed startled way, and rushed Inside the commissioner's forehead.
any lack of toughness, efficiency or
“Seventy cents," said King.
"You know why Ben Thorpe’s tally book out of his back pocket
with a clownish representation of
cold-blooded cruelty. Let's not kid
strong,” Dusty King said. “And you "The survey—" Lew Gordon's voice
“I'm already bid a dollar, five!”
haste.
ourselves too far from realism.
know how he got his start We know was curiously bewildered—"it’s hard
“Sure; but we got different rules
• • •
Within, the crowd of plains-coun-
why it is that so many Texas out to believe there’s any land as good
try men—bronzed men, saddle-faced now. God knows Thorpe can't back
COLUMN
AND
NOSTALGIA
fits stand in Ben Thorpe’s name; as this.”
a dollar, five in gold. What kind
men, sometimes bearded men—gave
This column has been accused by
and how many different ways he's
Their private survey had been way as King, followed by Bill Roper, of shenanigan is this, anyway?"
some of its best customers of nos
found to jump down on little lonely made by Bill Roper; it represented
The eyes of the deputy commls-
shouldered his way to the back.
talgia or too much yearning toward
Texan cowmen and leave them weeks of hard riding, and shrewd
"Is this the place," King asked, sioner went to Ben Thorpe's face World war precedents and experi
broke or dead. And we know what's calculation ot the strength and depth
“where the feller is selling the again, but there was nothing to be ences in mobilizing American in
happened to many a little outfit that of the feed upon the surface of the
read there. Thorpe seemed so dustry and man-power for defense.
horse?”
started north, but never brought broken land.
lumpishly still that it was not ap Sometimes from the hostiles this
The
deputy
commissioner
took
his
their cattle through, nor got home."
"One place here reads fifty head feet off his table.. "The sale was parent that he breathed. •
criticism takes the angle that the
"Every year,” Dusty King said, to the section,” Lew said wonder-
“Seventy cents,” said Dusty King
supposed to start at two o’clock,”
“nostalgia" is for a government job
"since we began driving up the big ingly. "Fifty head of cattle grazing
again in the silence. "Whoop 'er on the defense front
he complained.
More fre
trails, we've locked horns in one one section of land! It’s past be
up, boys—I’ve only begun!”
quently
it
is
from
sincere
and un
A
little
tribute,
there.
The
com
way or another with this one gang lief."
Silence again through the pack of derstanding personal friends, and is
missioner—perhaps already in Ben
I'm not forgetting who started the
"This isn’t Texas. Lew.”
Thorpe’s pay—hardly dared start an those saddle-faced men; perspiring that too much emphasis is put on
Red Crick stampede where Dave and
“I figure we might pay as high as
silence on the part of the deputy
Bob Henry died under piled up cat thirty cents to the acre,” Gordon important sale, without present this commissioner, dead lumpish si mobilization principles and experi
ences 23 years old and that, like "a
slouching,
nondescript-looking
repre
tle; nor the Tularosa shootings, with said, "by the year’s lease.”
lence on the part of Ben Thorpe.
quail a day for 30 days,” it gets too
sentative of King-Gordon.
four more of my boys dead. There's
A flicker like that of beat lightning
monotonous for the readers* relish.
"No word has come from your Cleve Tanner, his hands locked back
some good cowboys under the prai showed for a moment behind Dusty
of his neck, looked at the ceiling;
No, this column is not in rebuttal
partner at all,” the commissioner
rie, Lew.”
King’s eyes; but his voice was low
Walk Lasham sat motionless, his
of any of these criticisms about nos
said.
Gordon said almost inaudibly, and monotonous as before. "Thirty
eyes on the face ot his boss.
talgia. It is just to talk some of
"He ain't coming."
"Never could prove anything.”
cents be damned,” he said.
"You—” the deputy commission them over.
Three
men
who
sat
in
chairs
"His herds have grown faster than
Lew Gordon looked at him for a
er wavered, "you—you can back this
As to nostalgia for a job. That
ours have grown,” Dusty King's ex long time. How deep you figure to grouped around one end ot the table bid in gold?"
isn’t good sense, Any man would
looked
at
each
other.
They
ignored
pressionless voice droned on. "He’s go?”
"Immediate delivery by Wells, like again to have some active part
as big as we are; he'll be bigger
‘'Get the land,” Dusty King said. King and Roper, as hostile dogs ig Fargo,” King said. “Right now, in
in a great national effort in a crisis,
nore
an
enemy
of
whom
they
are
soon. From the Big Bend to the
“Ben Thorpe is liable to go crazy
but that natural wish was aban
Ogallala.”
not
yet
keenly
aware.
Tetons, he owns more outfits than and bid his head off.”
doned long ago. Quite understand
"Mr, Thorpe,” the commissioner
The big man in the light-colored
he knows the names of. He’s never
"We’re looking down his throat,"
ably, this administration would not
wavered, “Mr. Thorpe, will you—do
run an honest deal where he could King said for the second time. “The hat was Ben Thorpe — the Ben
seek out a critic for any more im
you
—
’
’
least the deputy commissioner can Thorpe, whose far-scattered hold
portant job than janitor in its dog.
They waited for what Ben Thorpe
accept is drafts on Kansas City. Ben ings perhaps already exceeded those
house. It is not to be blamed for
would say. His face was expres
of
King-Gordon.
Thick-shouldered
Thorpe hasn’t realized the value of
that. Any other course would be bad.
sionless still, as he got up from his
Honest Bill Roper turns
the land. We’ll catch him short and now, heavy-bodied, he was today
It wouldn’t make for harmony.
chair; but men stumbled over each
more
than
ever
a
power
feared
in
force
him
off
the
board.
”
outlaw. Or so it seemed.
On the other hand, the adminis
other to get out of his way, as he
"At what cost to ourselves?” Gor the cattle country—still unscrupu
tration
has shown great considera
There was a reason. There
walked
down
the
length
of
that
lous, still menacing, but now ot a
don demanded.
tion and restraint.
This column
different sort—a power of wealth, of packed room, and out into the street.
is also a girl you'll like in
"At all costs.”
could have been silenced any day,
The deputy commissioner seemed
organization,
and
ot
bought-up
law.
Slowly Lew Gordon shook his
without justifiable criticism from
head. “Maybe thirty-five cents an
Beside him, the tall man, lean and melted down, unrecognizable now as
any source, by simply calling its
the
crisp
little
man
who
had
opened
acre."
narrow-bodied as a slat, was Cleve
conductor to active Service as a re I
the bidding. His face was white
Dusty King's voice rose explosive Tanner; a hawk-faced man, keen
By Alan LeMay
serve officer—a course which would
and set, and his eyes showed fear.
ly tor the first time. "Thirty-five eyed, so cleanly shaven that the
also have put him in a considerable
"Well?” said King.
cents,” he echoed—"or fifty cents, tight skin of his jaws seemed to
Start Reading It Now
financial crimp and could have re
•
‘
The
Crying
Wolf,
”
the
commis-
or seventy-five, or a dollar! Get the shine. Cleve Tanner was maneger
sulted in no more interesting em
sioner said huskily, “the Crying
land!"
of Ben Thorpe’s Texas holdings, the
ployment than counting coconuts
Wolf
landi
if
—
if
there
are
no
oth-
Lew Gordon sighed, and he looked breeding
grounds
from
which
»»
at San Juan de Bac Bac.
like a man who was weary and old. Thorpe's whole organization drew er bids—go to King-Gordon . .
• • •
Something like a sigh, a general
“You want that land,” Gordon said, its strength.
tf
release
of
tension,
ran
through
that
As
to
nostalgia
for World war
"even if—'
The other, the man who seemed
methods of mobilization, they were
"At all costs,” Dusty King said uncommonly dark, even among jam of men.
Close to Dusty King’s ear Bill Rop
adopted for manpower. For indus
again.
these sun-darkened men, was Walk
trial mobilization, the President is
Gordon looked his partner in the Lasham. He was Ben Thorpe’S man er asked, out of the side of his
mouth, “How high would we—how
reported to have said of the war
eyes..
ager in the north, now; under his
high could we have gone?"
department’s plan (which followed
"Go in and bid!’*
poker-faced watchfulness lay Ben
The mask of Dusty King's face
see
our World war model) that we need
Thorpe’s northern holdings, the feed
broke up; every muscle in his face
a 1940 mobilization and not a 1018
Swinging down the board walks of ing grounds now necessary to any
came into action, every toeth
Ogallala in the cool spring sunlight, wide operation in the cattle trade.
blue print. That isn’t what the Ger
showed as he grinned.
Dusty King and Bill Roper looked a
The deputy commissioner raised
mans said. They are on record as
“Seven.*y cents,” King answered
whole lot alike. The more than his voice. “This,” he said, “is a
having modeled their whole indus
him.
twenty years difference in their ages federal auction, to place by public
trial effort on the war industries
had not changed Dusty King’s loose- bidding certain lands in the charge
board plan so far ae it was applica
jointed swagger, the rakish cock of of the Indian Department, by the
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