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Creative Writing: Into The Wild West

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"Wake up, partners," the trail boss, James called. I sleepily looked up , shivered, and saw I was the only one not up. "Here," James said, giving me the horses' bridles and saddles. "Take these and get the horses ready. We have a long day today." I groaned in reply and set up the horses for the day's long drag. I was the horse wrangler and this was my everyday job but I still couldn't get use to the idea of waking up before the sun and working. We drove the cattle into open plains against the winter's cold wrath. "Almost done for today, boys," the point man, Joe said. Then we came to this huge frozen river. James tested it and gave it an all clear with the hat signal. We slowly pushed past the ice. We were crossing it

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