Pete Wakefield comes back to his homestead claim to try to square things with himself.  He had allowed himself to be run off by a bully who then diverted the creek and ran his cattle on Pete’s land. Pete is going to stick it out this time, even if it means helping out a kid who put his rope on someone else’s calf.

“Where the Water Once Ran” appeared in Out West, Summer 2007, and in Coffee Cramp eZine, December 2007. This story also appeared in Blue Horse Mesa: Western Stories (RR Productions, 2012).

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