Snowbound And Eclipse (2016)
“With men starving to death and frozen and weakened, his thought was of his equipment. We spent days ferrying the truck that had been scattered up that creek down to the cache, days spent consuming the last of our energy.
I was too numb to see it, and so were the rest. If the colonel wanted his equipment collected and cached, then it was up to us to do it. I heard in that awful span of time no complaint at all. The colonel had a mesmerizing effect on all of us, and we would have followed his ins...truction unto death. I do not know where or how he acquired that grip over other mortals, but he had it and used it, his soft polite voice sealing our doom.
His choice of Vincenthaler is instructive to me now. The man was a dutiful sergeant, incapable of doing anything but following the colonel’s command no matter what new circumstances arose. I think Frémont intuitively understood that; in Lorenzo Vincenthaler he had the man whose will was a slavish copy of the colonel’s own. So without question or cavil, our new commander set us to the task, no matter that his own eyes told him we were all on the brink of collapse and our sole chance lay in leaving the mountains at once, reaching the bottoms of the Rio Grande, and finding game.MoreLess
I was too numb to see it, and so were the rest. If the colonel wanted his equipment collected and cached, then it was up to us to do it. I heard in that awful span of time no complaint at all. The colonel had a mesmerizing effect on all of us, and we would have followed his ins...truction unto death. I do not know where or how he acquired that grip over other mortals, but he had it and used it, his soft polite voice sealing our doom.
His choice of Vincenthaler is instructive to me now. The man was a dutiful sergeant, incapable of doing anything but following the colonel’s command no matter what new circumstances arose. I think Frémont intuitively understood that; in Lorenzo Vincenthaler he had the man whose will was a slavish copy of the colonel’s own. So without question or cavil, our new commander set us to the task, no matter that his own eyes told him we were all on the brink of collapse and our sole chance lay in leaving the mountains at once, reaching the bottoms of the Rio Grande, and finding game.MoreLess
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