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Bruce E Whitacre
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The Elk in the Glade
Literature & Fiction
Author Insight
Ranchers & Farmers in Wyoming
My Aunt Ruth and Uncle Glen had a rocky start when they moved from Nebraska to Wyoming to homestead in the 1930's. The incident of Glen's horse became family legend. When they returned to Nebraska, their dining room wall bore the horns of a buffalo he had found on their land, which was where Buffalo Bill once led a buffalo trophy hunt for a Grand Duke of Russia sixty years before. It was thrilling to grow up with these living bridges back into historical times. I think of Glen whenever I see Buffalo Bill's bust in the Caffe Greco in Rome. It was placed there while he was on tour in Europe with his Wild West show in the 1890's..
Book Excerpt
The Elk in the Glade
Glen’s horse goes missing. He knows where it is.
“Them Stiller boys took it.” Their rancher neighbor was
full of mischief: fences cut, cattle driven through the wheat.
“Then go get it back.” Her brown eyes charge him
as never before. Glen has to look away. But he pulls
on his boots and starts out on foot ten miles to the ranch.
He walks up to the barn. His horse whinnies to him
from the corral. A cowboy threatens he’ll shoot if he touches it.
Glen says not one word. He opens the gate, slips on the bridle
he had brought, mounts up, and rides bareback past the cowboy.
He would become a legend among the dirt farmers,
who have little else to celebrate as they eke out the ’30s.
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