Blogtober 2020 Day 31 Entry Phin and Murphy arrived as expected at mid-morning the next day. They saw their rescue party, along with...

Blogtober 2020 Day 30 Entry Gray saw the smoke before he could see the bridge or the fire, and by the time it came into view, all the...

Blogtober 2020 Day 29 Entry “They will be here soon,” Storm said. “Light the fire and jump.” The two Osage men who had ridden ahead of...

Blogtober 2020 Day 28 Entry Black Oak turned back in his saddle to see whether the marshal's wagon had closed the distance between them....

Blogtober 2020 Day 27 Entry Deputy James Gray joined the Kansas Marshalls after six years of arresting drunks and whores in downtown...

Blogtober 2020 Day 26 Entry Murphy slept fitfully, waking up time and time again with a jolt, scanning the landscape for any sign of the...

Blogtober 2020 Day 25 Entry The westward road led them into a crossroads six-building village called Sun City, where Phin and Murphy...

Blogtober 2020 Day 24 Entry The lawmen awoke at dawn and followed the trail into Winfield. They entered the general store. “Can I help...

Blogtober 2020 Day 23 Entry Their flight from the hangman’s noose took them west across southern Kansas. They stayed on the main road,...

Blogtober 2020 Day 22 Entry The lawmen had no way of knowing that the stolen cash had $1,000 less than what Phin and Murphy took from the...

Blogtober 2020 Day 21 Entry The spot for the ambush was exactly as Storm had described it, a sharp bend left with a thicket of trees on...

Blogtober 2020 Day 20 Entry Phin, who had been arrested more times than he could remember since he was ten years old, fell asleep as the...

Blogtober 2020 Day 19 Entry Storm drove the wagon north. Two braves sat in the back appearing to guard Phin and Murphy, but in reality,...

Blogtober 2020 Day 17 Post Meadow said goodbye the next morning. She only had one day to get what she needed for her plan to save her...

Blogtober 2020 Day 17 Post The Kansas posse arrived ten days later. Storm rode out with four other braves to meet them. The white men...

Blogtober 2020 Day 16 Entry Two weeks later, Murphy and Meadow sat together and watched as Phin played a game with a group of Osage boys....

Blogtober 2020 Day 15 Entry The boys were given a small tent to share on the edge of the village. They awoke the next day to find Osage...

Blogtober 2020 Day 14 Entry "We don’t deserve your help,” Murphy said. “But you already helped us. We would’ve died on the road if you...

Blogtober 2020 Day 13 Entry Meadow’s father entered the smoke lodge. He wasn’t tall, but he wore a long leather coat embroidered with...

Blogtober 2020 Day 12 Entry Meadow came back to the tent some indeterminate time later; both boys had lost all sense of time since their...