Archive for March 7th, 2013
My pa and I both ended up working for Bodie driving his cattle. My ma and pa stayed together. At first, pa had been furious with ma, but they came to some kind of agreement. They spent a lot of time together in their bunkhouse on Bodie’s ranch and both seemed happy for a while, though ma would stare wistfully down the road Shame had appeared on from time to time.
Pa took most of his frustration out on my sister and he drove her away. She became the town whore, servicing Bodie’s cowboys for $2.00 a lay from a room at the saloon. Slim blew a lot of his money on her…