There was limitless prairie straight on in front of me.

I walked for days, and slept at night wherever I could find a bluff.

I could hear the little grasses whispering when I lay half-awake, and it was comforting to know that there were leagues and leagues of them between me and the city.

I drove a team for a farmer most of that season.

Then I went on to a track that they were strengthening and straightening in this province.