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Her Drunk Uncle Traded the Fat Girl for a Horse to Mountain Man The Man Gave Back the Horse and Kept the Girl “Who’ll trade me a prime horse for the fat girl?” Silas Thornton slurred, and Timber Creek’s horse market exploded into jeers. Wyoming, 1877. Noon sun hammered the corral rails; dust hung like a curse over the pens where bay and roan stamped and snorted. Ruby Mae Thornton, eighteen and broad-hipped in a calico too small for last winter’s hunger, stumbled as her uncle jerked her forward by the wrist. Cards slapped in the shade of a freight wagon. A ranch hand whistled low. “She’s strong enough to pull a plow,” someone said. “Or to eat it,” another sniggered, and the laughter rolled mean and easy.