Lydia walked away from him, down the path to the beginning of the trail that led back to an area known as the Big Blue Wilderness.
A big blue gun was pointing directly at Dean's mid section, out of sight of the others by the man's position.
The city is very prettily situated in the valley of the Big Blue river, in the midst of a fine agricultural region.
There are some cut-offs or oxbow lakes along the Missouri, and many lakelets originally such are scattered along the Platte, Elkhorn, Big Blue and other rivers.
The " Oregon Trail," the " Old California Trail," and the " Old Salt Lake Trail " - all nearly identical in Nebraska - ran along the Platte across the entire state with various terminal branches near the eastern border, to the Missouri river towns; while branches from St Joseph, Missouri and Leavenworth, Kansas, ran up the valleys of the Big Blue and Little Blue rivers and joined the Nebraska roads near Ft.