Part Three: Chapters 75-77 Summary

When the wagon is seen by Sally, she can hardly wait to tell her mother. Clara figures they're buffalo hunters, but even Betsey is excited to see someone coming. As she watches the wagon get closer, Cholo rides in with two mares ready to foal. An older man, seventy-five or eighty, Clara figures, he is indispensable to Clara. The wagon arrives with two men and a very pregnant woman. Elmira asks whether they are in Nebraska yet. Clara tells her they are, offers them a meal and a place to stay for the night, and though Elmira is game to keep going, Big Zwey dismounts and is unhitches the team. Elmira asks about Dee Boot, and Cholo quietly tells Clara that yes, he knows Dee, and adds the word Pistolero. Elmira says they've come all the way...