1 Man - puny but irresistible - encroaching forever on Nature's vastness, gradually, very gradually wresting away her strange secrets, subduing her fierce elements - conquers the earth! 2 This is the story of a woman who came into the domain of the winds - 3 "My name's Wirt Roddy - I trade cattle up and down this line --" 4 "My name's Letty Mason - I've come all the way from Virginia -" 5 "My, this wind is awful, isn't it? I wish it would stop -" 6 "You're goin' to wish that a-plenty, little lady, if you're out here for any stay -" 7 "I've left Virginia for good - - I'm going to live at my cousin's beautiful ranch at Sweet Water." 8 "Injuns call this the 'land o' the winds' - it never stops blowing here -" 9 "- day in, day out, whistlin' and howlin' - makes folks go crazy - - especially women!" 10 "You're not scaring me a bit, Mr. Roddy - - I'm looking forward to - - everything!" 11 "I'm Beverly's nearest neighbor, Lige Hightower - he asked me to get you -" 12 "Me and my partner, Sourdough, live fifteen miles from your cousin." 13 "I'll stop off on my way back to see how you're makin' out -" 14 "Hop my paw, little missy!" 15 "We'll shoot fer the seat o' priv'lege!" 16 "Gee, but I'm unlucky!" 17 "I've seen that galoot before - travels fer a packin' house, don't he?" 18 "Them's wild hosses - when a norther blows they tear down the mountain like the divvil was arter 'em!" 19 "Mighty queer - Injuns think the North Wind is a ghost horse that lives in the clouds." 20 "Is this one of those - northers?" 21 "If this was a norther you and me 'ud be jest arms an' legs - - scattered over the prairie!" 22 After endless miles of wind and sand and empty far-off sky - 23 "Cora! Letty's come!" 24 "What's the hurry? She'll be here a long time!" 25 "I'd have sent for you before, honey - but it's been a mighty hard year - and my cough isn't much better." 26 "- you see, my mammy raised Bev - we're like brother and sister." 27 "Chuck's ready!" 28 "Kin I help you to sow- belly and grits, Miss Mason?" 29 "Hev some son-of-a-gun, Miss Mason!" 30 "It's made from the steer's innards - liver, lights and lungs!" 31 "I'm goin' to pop the question to Letty tonight!" 32 "Are ye, indeed, Mister Sourdough? Wal, so am I!" 33 "Ain't nothin' to do now - - but pop it together!" 34 "Can't you guess, Letty - why I stopped off at this awful forsaken place?" 35 "Cyclone headin' this way!" 36 "You see, Letty, you can't stay in this terrible country any longer." 37 "Come away with me, Letty. I love you." 38 "Cyclone blowed over - shindig under way again!" 39 "Think it over, Letty - I'll be in town until tomorrow night -" 40 "How can I decide? You're both so fascinating." 41 "Guess you'll have to toss for us, then!" 42 "- and for a moment I thought they were serious!" 43 "You're goin' to take one of 'em serious!" 44 "You don't think I ain't seen through your tricks, Miss Sly Boots!" 45 "You love Beverly - but you'll never get him away from me - he's mine!" 46 "What's more - you're gettin' out o' our house - and gettin' out quick!" 47 "I'd like to kill you!" 48 "Don't worry any more, Cora - I know where I can go - !" 49 "You're acting awful strange - !" 50 "Well, you see, Letty - as it happens - I got a wife already -" 51 "Letty - let me take you away where the wind can never follow you!" 52 "You've spent the last night you'll ever spend at the ranch!" 53 "But what's to become of me? I have no money - and no place to go -" 54 "Two men want to marry you - make up your mind which one you'll accept." 55 "Wal, if you'd took me - you'd got a better cook!" 56 "Well, you're always lucky and I'm always unlucky - ding it!" 57 "You've been my wife a whole hour - and I ain't kissed you yet!" 58 "Guess you ain't much of a kisser - are you?" 59 "Lemme get you some more!" 60 "You've made me hate you! Oh Lige - I didn't want to hate you!" 61 "I thought you'd married me to be my wife - - work with me - - love me - - !" 62 "Don't be afraid - I'll never touch you again -" 63 "Somehow - - I'll get money enough to send you away - - !" 64 Wind .... sand .... sand ... wind .... yesterday ... tomorrow .... forever .... 65 "We're on our way to a meetin' of the cattlemen. Something's got to be done to save us all from starvation." 66 "Take me with you, Lige - I'll go mad here - alone with that wind -" 67 "Gee, but I'm lucky!" 68 "You'll have to take Letty back to the ranch, Sourdough!" 69 "Them wild hosses is workin' their way down - like they was expectin' a norther - !" 70 "We could corral 'em on the prairie - if you-all's got guts to round 'em up in the norther!" 71 "Government's payin' three dollars a head for 'em - !" 72 "Oh, bury me not on the lone prai-rie, Where the wild coyotes will howl over me!" 73 "In a narrow grave just six by three, Oh, bury me not on the lone prai-rie!" 74 "This sure is norther weather! When that Satan hoss o' the Injuns starts to snort - !" 75 "- you'll think all the winds in heaven is havin' a screechin' contest!" 76 "Someone's hurt - - they're bringing him in - - !" 77 "It's Lige!" 78 "I'd jest as soon entertain a skunk in my front parlor!" 79 "I happened to run acrost you on my way home." 80 "He's not going to stay here - is he?" 81 "He'll have to - where else can he go?" 82 "Were you afraid to have Lige leave us alone - ?" 83 "The last time I saw you I told you what the wind 'ud do to you!" 84 "Well - it's doing it!" 85 "I'm not afraid of the wind - I - I - like it!" 86 "It'll soon be spring in Virginia - think of the fields, all thick with wild violets -" 87 "- - old norther's here! Hosses are comin' down from the mountains in thousands - - !" 88 "Every man's needed for the round up!" 89 "It's my one chance, Letty, o' gettin' money to send you back!" 90 "Better get your things packed, Letty! First thing we know Lige'll be back!" 91 "I'm not going away with you - !" 92 "- but if he finds us here, he'll kill us both!" 93 "I hope he will!" 94 "Lige - I've killed Wirt Roddy!" 95 "There's nothin' out there - nothin' but sand - !" 96 "Wind's mighty odd - if you kill a man in justice - - it allers covers him up!" 97 "Poor little Letty - you'll soon be out of all this!" 98 "Don't hate me, Lige! Don't send me away from you!" 99 "But - don't you - want to go?" 100 "Can't you see I love you?" 101 "But the wind, Letty - won't you always be afraid of it?" 102 "I'm not afraid of the wind - I'm not afraid of anything now - !" 103 "- because I'm your wife - to work with you - to love you - !" The EndHome