Chapter 69 The Hard Ride
When dawn came, I did a recon of the area finding six frozen snow covered bodies. All had been killed by rifle fire, although two appeared to have been wounded but had bled out. Studying the tracks it looked like another two had possibly skied out, so we would have to be on our guard getting back home. I only found one rifle, a rather beat up 45.70 trapdoor, along with a bow and a half quiver of arrows. The fact that there were no more weapons lying around, and their horses were nowhere to be found indicated to me that at least two had taken off. After a hot meal and re-checking Oliver and Steinar's bandages, Caleb and I fabricated a travois, (thank god I brought plenty of paracord) when it was finished, I spread out one buffalo robe over the rig, tied it down, th
