Tubacca

He rode a big black mule and carried a long-barreled rifle, not in the saddle boot, but resting across the horn as if even here in Tubacca there might be reason for instant action.

Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958

Drew was breathing as fast as if he had charged across the sun-baked plaza at a run, when he came into the general store which supplied Tubacca with nine-tenths of the materials necessary for frontier living.

Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958

Arizona Rangers — and most of all the raiding, vicious, deadly, and continual, by Apaches and outlaws — had blasted Tubacca.

Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958

And perhaps this was the time when he should begin building up the background one Drew Kirby must present to Tubacca, Arizona Territory.

Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958

I have seen him stand here in Tubacca giving toys and candy to the little ones.

Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958

Tubacca had slumbered apathetically before; now the town was wide awake.

Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958

Behind him rode the boy and girl Drew had seen in the Tubacca alley, mounted on rangy, nervous horses that had speed in every line of their under-fleshed bodies.

Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958

It would seem that all Tubacca was turning out to welcome the wagon train of traders from the south.

Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958

Afternoon was fast fading into evening, but Tubacca, aroused from the post-noon siesta, was in tumult.

Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958

Tubacca was still in a slump; the rest of the valley held about as many jobs for a man as Drew had fingers on one hand.

Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958