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===Chapter 9===
===Chapter 9===
Some Canadian air is making it really freakin' cold. Graves is pretty content though preferring places with 4 seasons instead of just one and welcomes the "melancholy of autumn". Then he philosophical with "green is not so green without brown and gray" (pg. 119) Graves can't sleep very well as he hears a highway in the background so he quotes some Graham Green to soothe himself. The next morning a hunter runs into his campsite so of course the next 4 pages are Graves retelling the guys life story. After the guy leaves Graves climbs up to the top of a bluff to look down at the river and lay down historical nuance after nuance after nuance. Bigfoot Wallace, Goliad, Palo Pinto, the civil war Chelsey Dobbs scalped by Indians... The book is written well I just stopped caring after a while. Back to things --- Graves details the history of the Sherman family and their run ins with the local Indians. This guy named two-feathers and his band of Comanche brothers heckles these Irish people then rapes, tortures, and kills them except for one which turns out to be the mother of Quanah Parker. Graves finishes by gripping about historical inaccuracies and the Hollywood fictionalized version of the old west. At the end of the chapter Graves tells us how he is a world traveler and compared to world history the settling of the old west isn't a very big deal yet it is extremely important to him and makes up an important part of his being.
==Intermission==
==Intermission==