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Bob Hampton of Placer (Hardcover)
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Bob Hampton of Placer (Hardcover)
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It was not an uncommon tragedy of the West. If slightest chronicle
of it survive, it must be discovered among the musty and nearly
forgotten records of the Eighteenth Regiment of Infantry, yet it is
extremely probable that even there the details were never written
down. Sufficient if, following certain names on that long
regimental roll, there should be duly entered those cabalistic
symbols signifying to the initiated, "Killed in action." After all,
that tells the story. In those old-time Indian days of continuous
foray and skirmish such brief returns, concise and unheroic, were
commonplace enough. Yet the tale is worth telling now, when such
days are past and gone. There were sixteen of them when, like so
many hunted rabbits, they were first securely trapped among the
frowning rocks, and forced relentlessly backward from off the
narrow trail until the precipitous canyon walls finally halted
their disorganized flight, and from sheer necessity compelled a
rally in hopeless battle. Sixteen, -ten infantry-men from old Fort
Bethune, under command of Syd.
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