They could smell the blood from my feet and maybe the festering that was there. One of the wolves had gone over where I'd been lying and was smelling around to see what his hillside newspaper would tell him. I could guess he was reading a lot out there that I wished he didn't know.
(from Galloway, by Louis L'Amour)
"These are my world," he said. "Had I been born in another time or to another way of life I should have been a scholar. My father had this place and he needed sons to carry on, so I came back from Spain to this place. It has been good to me. I have seen my crops grow and my herds increase, and if I have not written words upon paper as I should like to have done, I have written large upon the page of life that was left open or me."
(from The Lonely Men, by Louis L'Amour)
Monday's don't make all that much difference, but I have long preferred sunny days to rainy days, except during times of drought. Rain means the grass is going to grow, and that means that I will have to be mowing the grass. Not fun!
There always had to be a man on watch, because Apaches were great horse thieves, though not a patch on the Comanches, who could steal a horse from under you whilst you sat in the saddle. You either kept watch or you found yourself afoot; and in the desert, unless you're almighty canny, that means you're dead.
(from The Lonely Men, by Louis L'Amour)
Travel in the desert cannot be haphazard. Every step a man takes in desert country has to be taken with water in mind. He is either heading for water, or figuring how far he will be from it if he gets off the trail. The margin of safety is narrow.
(from The Lonely Men, by Louis L'Amour)
