The Outcasts

At sunset, A’tim the half-wolf, half-huskie sings of blood and fresh meat to the prairie—and a thousand dogs in the Indian camps answer his cry.

On the September plains near the Montana border, A’tim survives by wit and hunger. Shunned by both wolves and dogs, he lurks near the Blood Indians’ lodges and listens: tomorrow they will drive buffalo into a corral for a great hunt. Then Shag, an aging bull cast out by his own herd, comes lumbering from the buttes. The two outcasts share their grievances against the hunters, but Shag knows the buffalo pound is a death trap—and A’tim’s empty belly is already thinking of the feast to come. With the hunters’ guns and poison on the prairie, can either outcast trust the promise of tomorrow?

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