Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher

Book Excerpt: ma'am! Simpson'll be here in a jiffy!""I reckon Simpson'll be late," I says. "Bill Rawson seen him goin' towards Goldstone just now in his thrashin'-machine with a feemale settin' byside him. Bill says she was wearin' one of them fancy collar-box hats, with a duck-wing hitched on to it, and her hair was all mussy over her eyes--like a cow with a board on its horns--and she had enough powder on her face t' make a biscuit."The ole man begun t' chaw and spit like a bob-cat. "I ai...