Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Your memory was critical

In those days every saloon was a clearing house for information. Sitting around in a saloon or standing at a bar, loafing in a cow camp or riding the trail, men just naturally talked about places they'd been. It was likely to be all a body would ever get to know about trails or towns until he traveled them, so men listened and remembered.

(from Mojave Crossing, by Louis L'Amour)

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