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Osterman cut his wheat that summer before any of the other ranchers, and as soon as his harvest was over organised a jackrabbit drive. Like Annixter's barn-dance, it was to be an event in which all the countryside should take part. The drive was to begin on the most western division of the Osterman ranch, whence it would proceed towards the southeast, crossing into the northern part of Quien Sabe -- on which Annixter had sown no wheat -- and ending in the hills at the headwaters of Broderson Creek, where a barbecue was to be held.
Early on the morning of the day of the drive, as Harran and Presley were saddling their horses before the stables on Los Muertos, the foreman, Phelps, remarked: