Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

On tonight's episode of the Bore You to Sleep podcast, we will be reading from Lonesome Land by

B.M. Bauer. The book was originally published in 1924,

and it looks at a young romance that happened in the Old West. I hope you've enjoyed the podcast

and hope you enjoy the episode. The whole purpose of this podcast is to help people everywhere good a good night's rest.

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Lonesome Land by B. M. Bauer

Chapter 1

The Arrival of Val

In northern Montana

there lies a great, lonely stretch of prairie land

gashed deep where flows the Missouri. Indeed, there are many such big,

impassive, impressive in their very loneliness. In summer given over to the winds and the meadow

larks and to the shadows fleeing fleeing always over the hilltops.

Wild range cattle feed there and grow sleek and fat for the fall shipping of beef.

At night the coyotes yap quaver, and prowl abroad after the long-eared jack rabbits,

which bounce away at their hunger-driven approach.

In winter, it is not good to be there.

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