The summer of 1882 came down on the Wyoming Territory like a judgment that refused to blink. Heat sat on the courthouse square in Laramie the way dust sits on old boots, inevitable, thick, and impatient with anyone who still believed in comfort. Men clustered in the shade of wagons and porch awnings, hats tilted low, eyes sharp with the hunger …
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