I rode into the area in late 1878 and found a small cabin that no one had lived in for months. And maybe longer? A nice little place on a nob hill above a small creek with very good water. The place was left much as if the people who lived there had just ridden away. There was a grave behind the house with a cross on it but no details of who or what. Just the grave with rocks piled over it and the cross. Some time had passed since it was fresh.
I began work cleaning up the place. I rode the area and found a few stray head of cattle unbranded maybe two years old and a few older Branded with an rafter D. I pushed the cattle closer to the ranch house and they seemed happy to be there. I cleaned a few spots to back water into ponds from the spring that fed the creek. I was running low on supplies and I had been told there was a store about due west a few miles.
I started out early the next morning and headed west to find the store. About 3 hours of riding brought me to a rise over looking a small valley where the Store sat. Two small cabins and a barn sat off to one side of the store. I walked into the old store and was met by a sloppy man in dirt overalls, his beard was tobacco stained as was the dirty long johns that showed under his overalls. He was at least 300 pounds of very unkept slob. He introduced himself as Bart the store owner. I dropped my list of things I needed and ask him to fill it.
I stood at the door looking out at his little valley. His store was in a very pretty site. A couple of guys came out of one of the small cabins to the side of the store. I smelled him rather than felt him looking over my shoulder.
"I got me the sweetest little whore over there you ever saw. Had her now going on the third year. And she makes me a pretty penny or two. If you want to visit her I'll let ya have her today cheap."
"No thanks, I got a long ride home."
I picked up my order, paid what I owed and headed home.
I worked around the place for a couple months with no contact with anyone before a guy rode in from the west. I greeted him with the usual lite and set. And he did. We chatted several minutes when he looked around the place.
"Didn't know anyone was on this place. You have done a bit of work on her. Been maybe near 4 years since she rode out of here after she planted her husband."
"That the grave behind the house?"
"Didn't know where it was. Young couple starting out was here. They were makin a hard time of it but trying. He was chasin a steer south of here and horse stepped in a hole fell with him. Crushed him and she found him and the horse on him. She shot the horse pulled it off him with hers and brought him to the house but he died. She stayed on a while but she was finished without him."
"So what happen she go back east?"
"Nope just a ways over west. She rode over to Greasy Bob's store near starved. He told her he'd put her to work and she'd make room and board. She had nothing else. She agreed. He took her out to the little cabin and fucked her. She's been there every since."
"He said he has a real looker in the back cabin. Two guys came out while I was there."
"She is a pretty little thing and guys come from miles around to see her. He has a real good business with her. He and a couple of the regulars there fuck her most every day. He has her in the store lots her tits hangin out mostly. I have seen guys take em clear out suck on em and mount her right there on the counter"
"Why she stay?"
"No place to go I recon, couple guys have tried to take her away, but he killed em."
"That fat man killed them?"
"He carries a Bowie in a holster down his back. He killed em both when they turned their back to him. Last one was near two years now and she won't have anything to do with anyone else now. Feels she got em killed."
"She did nothing wrong he killed them."
Mac stayed for super and I enjoyed the company. He went on east and I west the next day. I needed supplies and the store was the nearest place to get them. Mac had said he was coming back through in a week or so. He really enjoyed Greasy Bob's little whore who had lived at my place and wanted to see her again.