Tombstone
Walter Noble Burns, 1926
Silver boom, saloons and hired guns in the Arizona desert, told by a newspaperman who hunted down the ageing survivors and let them talk.
Walter Noble Burns
1866–1932
Burns, a Kentucky-born reporter, published this half a century after the O.K. Corral, when the gunfight was already sliding from memory into myth.
Feels like adventure, nostalgia and death.
What a sleeping child does to the man who finds her.
John Slaughter stepped inside a wickiup. Something that, in the shadowy light, looked a little like a sack of flour caught his eye. Curious, he reached out the muzzle of his rifle to give the thing a poke. The sack of flour gave a sudden little tossing movement. It was a baby—a tiny Apache girl perhaps a year old, fast asleep on a deerskin. Black hair was tousled on the little head; long black eyelashes lay against the cheeks of dusky rose; the breath came and went as peacefully as if the child were sheltered in its mother’s arms. All the noise of the attack and flight had left the baby’s slumbers undisturbed. Books by Walter Noble Burns
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