Heya! I have some more passages to quote from Streets of Laredo that struck me as BBM related as I read them. There are some spoilers here so beware.
This one reminds me of the end of the dozy embrace when Ennis does not look back at Jack. It also reminds me of Jack watching Ennis through the rear view mirror at the end of 63 summer.
"Doobie Plunkert stood at the back door of their little house and watched hopelessly as Ted and the old Captain and the fat little Yankee rode away. She felt her heart breaking; she didn't think she would be able to endure the ache. If Ted had just once turned in the saddle and waved at her, it would have made the ache a little easier to bear."
This on reminds me of Ennis's vivid dream from the short story. It comes soon after the passage I just quoted above.
"That night, without him to hold her tight, she had many dreams, and tossed and turned... Doobie's dream was so vivid that she could even smell her husband, Ted Plunkert. He smelled of saddle soap... Smelling it in her dream made Doobie remember what a good man Ted was.... The best part of the dream, though, was that Ted not only smelled of saddle soap; Ted was there. He snuck into the bedroom, as he always did when he came in late; he took off his boots... and climbed into bed to hold her tight, as she always hoped he would, not just for one night but throughout her whole life. Doobie tried to stay in her dream, to hide in it, but she grew more and more restless; she began to have moments of wakefulness, began to suspect that her dream was just a dream... Despite herself , she woke, opened her eyes, and knew the worst immediately. Ted Plunkert wasn't there."
Then this passage is about a different character. I love the moon references and even the Brooklyn reference.
"In Brooklyn, in his work as a salaried man, Brookshire had never paid much attention to the moon... it hadn't mattered to him whether the moon was full, or just a sliver, or not there at all.
Once they were on the black desert in Mexico, Brookshire saw that the Captain had been right. The full moon, in the deep Mexican sky, was so bright that traveling was as easy as ti would have been in daylight. Brookshire was still a salaried man, but he was also a manhunter now... He was heading into Texas with Captain Woodrow Call, and he would probably do well to start paying more attention to the moon."