Back on the Trail with young John Henry and the Desert Plains......

                   John Henry, along with his family...Mother, Father and now Lilly, have joined another family back at the River crossing. This family consisted of the Father, Mother, and a son. They have already journeyed three days into the dry Plains, with only enough supplies left for another day or so, and they had two more days to get to the base of the Rockies.
          They pushed on, struggling to move from lack of more nutritional  foods. Already their supply had dwindled to the basics, with only enough to get through another day. 
         Stopping to make camp, it was up to John Henry to go out and try and find fresh meat so that they could get the strength back to continue, and get through this Hellish Journey.
          Henry decided to take Lilly along for help, and just so that he had some company, not knowing how long they would be gone.

        Henry and Lilly became close friends on their journey, after Henry had to rescue her from those Mountain that had took over the camp she had with her Husband, that they killed and were going to take her as a slave to their needs.
        Lilly had grown much stronger from all she was through, there fore being someone Henry could count on in times of need. They had walked off and wondered far from the encampment  where both families were making the best out of a bad situation.
        Finally there, in a cluster of bush's stood a fine looking Buck. Henry got down low, motioning Lilly to do the same, kneeling down he trained his rifle on the Bucks head, he fired, the Buck jolted up, then ran out of the thicket. Henry puzzled by the deers reaction, since Henry being an excellent shot, and was sure he had hit it, went up to the spot where the Buck had been. Sure enough there was blood and a trail of it left behind, that was truly a good hit. 
       They took off following the blood trail, along w some tracks that were left at points where they could be in this dry Earth. They walked for some time all the while thinking that they would soon stumble over the Buck. 
       It was getting late, and running out of day light, when all of a sudden the Buck reared up right in front of them, Henry, out of instinct pulled his rifle up and shot.......
       
       Henry and Lilly soon had to make camp, tired and hunger after carrying but mostly dragging the Buck only a short distance from where he had shot it. After 'Dressing' out the Deer, with Lilly making the best out of a bad situation, soon had a camp-site ready. Not long after nightfall they had both fallen deep into a good nights sleep.
       The next they were fresh to start that long journey back to their folks, who they had imagined would not see them again. 
       As it turned out it was Henry and Lilly who would not be able to see them or tell them one more time how they loved them. As they approached the area in which they thought the camp was, they saw smoke lightly drifting in the sky overhead. Now Henry was a little worried, so he told Lilly to stay back. Henry took caution in getting closer to see what was going on. 
       It was his worst nightmare of how a tribe of Indians would come in and destroy a family. He first stood in shock when he first saw his father  beaten down and scalped, tied to a wagon wheel, just as was Mr. McGlocklen. The two women were out of sight until Henry could regain his thoughts. Both of them tortured and left naked after being raped. Henry dropped to his knees and wept. Wept for the first time ever that he could remember. He was still kneeling when Lilly came up behind him, got down next to him and started to Pray. That too had been a long time for him to do. Both kneeling in Pray, then looking up to see the base of the Rockies in the distant too far away, but just close enough to keep their dreams alive.
     The boy was missing, with no hope of finding him alive or even finding him at all. The Comanches sometimes take the young boy, if there's no girl around, for them to make one of theirs. The boy will stay alive as long as he doesn't cause them problems.

       This now ends the story of how Henry came to be a rough and mean spirited Cowboy with just his wits to rely on. He went on to create a reputation in the West, far above and beyond all that you may have heard before......

 

....Lost....

                       .....I am lost in the wake of emotions.....
               ....they lie still in the pit of my Heart....
               
               ....I wish to retrieve them from all that's against me....
                      ....hoping that they may come soon....
          
               ....so that Truth and Love may stand the test of Time..
               ....and to the Beauty for which it stands....

               ....Then once again it shall Flourish........
               ....above and beyond all Expectations.....



                             .....LOVE AND PEACE-OUT..........
                               
                                 .....To Marley.......