Chapter 3: Traveling South
They rode in silence. Lee didn’t want to intrude on Tatanka’s thoughts.
Then Tatanka asked, “Where we go?”
“Oklahoma Territory.”
“You know this place?”
“Nope, never been…but its south, so it’d be warm.”
Tatanka trusted Lee. Lee turned to take one last look back to see if he could see the tribe. He squinted at the horizon. There was a small cloud of dust being kicked up by something. At first he thought it might be a dust devil, but it kept moving closer and at a fast pace.
“Tanka, whadaya make a that?”
Tatanka turned and looked back. “Rider.”
They reined in their horses. The speck got bigger. “Pony,” said Tatanka.
“s**t, that looks like a kid,” Lee added. “Hey, that’s Sleeps With Dog.”
The boy on the pony galloped up and came to an abrupt stop with
