Book 1, Ch. 8 · The Judge's Man Warned the Widow — Her Mule Bit Him, Then She Saw His Saddle

▶ Next: Book 1, Chapter 9 —    • Book 1, Ch. 9 · They Burned the Widow's Ba...   ⏮ Start from the beginning (Book 1, Chapter 1):    • Book 1, Ch. 1 · They Left Her a Dead Ranch...   📖 Book 1, every chapter in order:    • The Long Road to Bitter Creek · Book 1: Th...   ── The Long Road to Bitter Creek ── "The Judge's Man Warned the Widow — Her Mule Bit Him, Then She Saw His Saddle" - a narrated Western audiobook set in Montana Territory, 1881 with Ruth Calloway, Judge Harlan Voss, Ada Quill, Tom Whitlow. Book One, Chapter Eight of The Long Road to Bitter Creek, a Copper Lantern Western story. Previous chapter (Ch. 7):    • Book 1, Ch. 7 · Two Years Later, the Widow...   Ruth Calloway is home after three weeks in the high country, where she found the lost column, nine dead troopers, and no sign of her husband Walt. Tom has kept the place, there are beans in the garden, and the door finally shuts. But the creek is dropping, a dry wind won't settle, and Ada brings word that Cole Danner rode in hard off the north road while the Judge has been unlocking the land office. Then three riders come up through the cottonwoods. The Judge's foreman has a warning for the widow about her claim, her hired man, and the runaway boy in her loft. Ruth answers him one point at a time, the way she once ran a schoolroom. Biscuit the mule has her own answer. And in the hot wind of that dusty yard, something passes between Ruth and Cole Danner that neither of them can take back. CHARACTERS: Ruth Calloway, Judge Harlan Voss, Ada Quill, Tom Whitlow, Walt Calloway, Biscuit the mule SETTING: Montana Territory, 1881 ABOUT THE SERIES The Long Road to Bitter Creek is a five-book Western saga told by Ruth Calloway, narrated chapter by chapter on The Copper Lantern. Subscribe for the next chapter:    / @copperlanterntales   Music: "Lost Frontier" and "Crossing the Divide" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Created under Michael Johnson's creative direction. Written with AI assistance, with synthetic narration and AI-generated illustrations.