Mike Vendetti
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1,621 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Mike Vendetti’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In resistless fury a charge no bullet could stop, an enemy no human valor could hope to daunt or down.
Quick man yelled Ray, out with you.
You on the west front.
Stay you here.
You others, watch the Sioux.
They'll be on us in an instant, and away he sped from the shelter of the bank, out from the thick of the cottonwoods, out to the open prairie, straight towards the coming torrent of flame still.
Thank God full seven hundred yards away, but leaping toward them with awful strides.
Out with him rushed field.
And out from Clayton's front sped half a dozen old hands, every man fumbling for his matchbox, out until they reached a line with their captain, already sprawled upon the turf, and there, full, a hundred yards from the grove, they spread in rude skirmish line, and reckless of the mad chorus of yells that came sweeping down the wind, the
Reckless of the clamor of the coming charge, reckless of the whistling lead that almost instantly began nipping and biting the turf about them, here, there, and everywhere.
They too had started little fires.
They too had run their line of flame across the windward front.
They too had launched a wall of flame, sailing toward the grove, and then back.
Through blinding smoke they ran for their safety.
of their saddle blankets just as the sharp sputter of shots burst forth on the northward side and the Sioux with magnificent dash came thundering within range.
Then followed a thrilling battle for life, two red enemies now enrolled against the blue.
Fight fire with fire is the old rule of the prairie.
Ray had promptly meant the oncoming sweep of the torrent by starting a smaller blaze that should at least clear the surface close at hand and by eating off the fuel stop possibly the progress of the greater flame.
But the minor blaze had also to be stopped, least it come snapping and devouring within the grove.
It is no easy matter to check a prairie fire against a prairie gale when every human aid is summoned.
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