“The Last Running” by John Graves

 

“Liberty,” Starlight said out of nowhere, in Spanish. “They speak much of liberty. Not one of you has ever seen liberty, or smelled it. Liberty was grass, and wind, and a horse, and meat to hunt, and no wire.”

An elegiac story of the End of an Era—the Last Buffalo Hunt conducted under less than noble conditions.

There is a brutality here, sadness, and attempts to reclaim nobility.

It is a brief tale, one with a wallop not found in many a longer tale.

Well, worth the considerate readers time.

True art.