prairie breaker

One year later and 10 blocks away, my mother came into the world, the granddaughter of those pioneers who had roamed the prairie.

This, thought I, is a dismal-looking outcome—two men and a dead horse left high and dry on the sun-flooded prairie.

Not while I had the open prairie underfoot and the summer sky above, and hands to strike a blow or pull a trigger.

"We'll be blamed lucky if we don't run into a prairie-fire before mornin'," Piegan grumbled.

One company also has irrigation works, and ready-made farms for settlers in the prairie provinces.

The sergeant went out, and when the beat of hoofs sank into the silence of the prairie, Winston called Courthorne in.