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Todd Moore

white wolf

Todd Moore
pelt wyatt had won in an all night poker game at the long branch was care lessly draped across his bed waddya gonna do w/it doc asked trade it to cock eyed frank for a fancy frisco bowie wyatt re plied i once knew a lakota shaman doc sd rolling a cigar a round in his mouth he sd they were holy & if you wore a white wolf fur around you the bullets wd bounce off & you wd live forever this is the dead last thing i wanna wrap a round me wyatt sd wd you take a brand new colt 45 w/scroll work & bone grips yeah but what the hell do you want w/some thing like this doc took his hat off as tho it was a ritual & tossed it over on top of the hide sd murder & dreams wyatt murder & dreams
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