Word: steppe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Billy Hull," in the local estimate, "was as rough as a porcupine." Trigger-tempered, 140-lb. little Billy had a friend, Alec Smith; two enemies, Brothers Jim & Dave Stepp. One day Alec Smith and Billy Hull were at the mountain farmhouse of a neighbor named Cindy Lovelace when the Stepps rode up, started shooting. Smith fell dead. A bullet hit Billy Hull between the nose and the right eye, came out the back of his head to lodge in his collar. He dropped. The Stepps dashed over to finish him but, says a family chronicler, "Cindy wrapped her apron around...
Next day Billy Hull came to, muttered, "I'm not daid; do somethin'furme." Blind in his right eye, he grimly waited until his wound was healed, then started after the Stepps. They had gone to Kentucky. For miles Billy Hull trailed Jim Stepp, found him one day sitting on a fence, chatting. Stepp jumped down, said, "Why, hello, Billy...
...high mountain whine Billy Hull screamed, "God dang you, don't you speak to me!" He pulled a pistol from his left armpit. Stepp turned to run. Hull shot him "right atween the galluses." On the ground he had the prudence to shoot Stepp again. Then Billy Hull crossed the river, and back in Tennessee no one ever said another word to him about...