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🐦⬛ The Haunting of Black Hollow Ranch
The three of them had been hired to watch the cattle on the lower range for Mr. Dugan. Right in the middle of the land sat the old ranch house. The family had long since left, but the stories stuck around like burrs on a mule’s tail.
The Sullivan Sisters and the Sin of Letty Grant: A Sullivan Sisters' Tale
The young girl’s family had come in from the Territory once the next-of-kin had been notified. It had been quite a shock and distress to them, because they hadn’t known where their daughter was. She had disappeared six months earlier, running away from home, and they hadn’t heard from her since.
The Midnight Wrangler
Annie Jo squinted ahead. The rustlers hadn't seen them yet, by God's grace. This was the second theft in as many months. She had thought the extra precautions would stop it. Anger, sharp and bitter, rose in her throat as she watched her cattle driven further into the narrow pass.
Letters from Sagebrush Ridge
To break the silence, and perhaps her own growing loneliness, Marian had started writing letters to her sister back east. In those missives, Hank became a shadowy presence, “the injured man,” “the quiet stranger.”
Fairy Roads and Forgotten Paths: When Victorian Travelers Feared the Otherworld
Pioneers spoke of wandering lights—will-o’-the-wisps—that danced across the plains. Some called them swamp gas, others fairy fires, but the effect was the same: men and women followed them, entranced, until they were thoroughly lost.
Dust and Deliverance
Mercy crossed her arms. She’d not laid eyes on Everett Tate in five years—not since he’d broken off their engagement with nothing but a note and a trail of boot prints heading west.