Max and Catharine's son Archilde—a musician in the city—returns to the ranch and the reservation for what he thinks will be a short visit.

"At the creek's edge he sat on an old log and listened to the water which, though night had come, was still awake, swirling in eddies, slapping upon stones.... There were odors of the thimbleberry, of wet gravel, and, he thought, of fish, but that was imagination. It was a peculiar thing how images of such things were nothing that could be touched and yet they had strength and substance. He had come a thousand miles because of their pull upon him...." (16)

McNickle, D. The Surrounded. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. (1936)

Photos: 82-0056 (top) and 82-0112 (bottom), Archives & Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.