“You would avoid a confrontation with Lantz, and you would be in territory that, as far as I know, is unclaimed. Lantz sends people across the river to harvest wood for fires and other purposes. However, the last time I was in that area, I was recovering a body from cougars.”
“Cougars?” Gundersen whispered.
“Yes, quite large ones, too.” Murdock chuckled. “That’s one of the reasons Lantz hasn’t claimed that area and only sends men there if he has to.”
“What resources are available there?” Benteen said.
“I have no idea,” Murdock stretched his legs out in front of him. “Never explored that area. I was following a trail left by one of the previous pod’s inhabitants when I found his body in a shallow cave, being eaten by the cougar’s kits. That was, oh, three or four years ago. Anyway, I ha
