The character of gunfighters

    "There's talk about what would happen if you and Tom should meet."

    Well, I was mad. I got up and walked across the office and swore. Yes, and I wasn't a swearing man. Oddly enough, thinking back, I can't remember many gunfighters who were. Most of them I knew were sparing in the use of words as well as whisky.

(from The Daybreakers, by Louis L'Amour)