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    Apache Son
    Apache Son
    Apache Son
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    Apache Son

    By Darrel Bird

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    A man has killed the only father Chaps has ever had. Fate takes him back to his Apache people, and there he prepares to go after the man who hired the killer.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarrel Bird
    Release dateMar 11, 2014
    ISBN9781310848971
    Apache Son
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    Darrel Bird

    Darrel Bird has written and published 47 short stories. He attended Bakersfield college, and is an avid motorcyclist.

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      Apache Son - Darrel Bird

      Apache Son

      by Darrel Bird

      Copyright 2014 by Darrel Bird

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      Buckeye, do you reckon there is another river like this in other places?

      Sure they are; I once heard a feller over in Shafter say he went clear to the Columbia River once.

      Where is that, do you reckon?

      Well, it’s a sight far from Big Bend country; that’s how far it is.

      Chaps and Buckeye Jenkins sat around a campfire along the banks of the Rio Grande, talking in low voices.

      Chaps sat with his back to a tree, roping his toe with a rawhide piggin string. Chaps was sixteen, and Buckeye was seventeen. They both worked for the Driskel ranch. The rancher had taken them both in as youngsters. Buckeye’s people had been killed by Mescalero Apache, and Chaps was of questionable descent, of which no one knew. His only name was Chaps.

      He had stumbled onto the ranch when he was about five years old, dirty, wet, and starving, and all he could speak was the Mescalero language, which nobody could understand or cared about. This added another mouth to feed for John Driskel because the boy was white, as they come with a shock of blonde hair.

      He had taken John's chaps off the hook by the door of the main house and wouldn’t give them up; he squalled every time John

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