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This episode is supported by Rustic Terrain. Tonight we'll be reading the opening to the

1911 novel titled Me Smith written by Caroline Lockhart.

Lockhart was a journalist, a newspaper owner,

and a ranch owner, along with writing novels set in her adopted home of Cody, Montana.

The Caroline Lockhart Ranch is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 2018, the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame inducted her. Me Smith was her first novel. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

One. 1. Me Smith A man on a tired gray horse reined in where a dim cattle trail dropped into a gulch and looked

behind him. Nothing was in sight. He half closed his eyes and searched the horizon. No, there was nothing.

Just the same old No, there was nothing.

Just the same old sand and sagebrush,

hills, more sand and sagebrush.

And then to the west and north the spur of the Rockies whose jagged peaks were white

with a fresh fall of snow. The wind was chill. He shivered and looked to the

eastward.

For the last few hours he had felt snow in the air,

and now he could see it in the dim gray mist still far off but creeping toward him.

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