Denis Johnson

Spokane International Railway in the Idaho Panhandle.

Mr. Sears, of Spokane International’s management

his wife, Gladys, and their infant daughter, Kate

Arn Peeples, an old man now, formerly a jim-crack sawyer,

As he watched them, it occurred to him that he’d lived almost eighty years and had seen the world turn and turn

he’d been born sometime in 1886

“I’m pulling this team up, and you can walk from here, if you want to beat around and around the bush. I’m taking you to town with a hole in you, and I ask a simple question about how your dog shot you, and you have to play like a bunkhouse lout who don’t know the answer.”