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At night he thought of her, and imagined her in her room, in her gown. Well, it couldn't taste much worse than that Ogallala beer, Needle observed. But there were the vast, endless plains. The smell of the skins was worse than anything that had happened on the river.

Newt remembered how happy he had been when dawn finally came after the night they had gone to Mexico. You said there wasn't a man in Kansas that could take you, Dan, Eddie said. If only I would, Clara thought--I'd be with my boys. It's a boy, though.