"You'll get no marshal. Not when they hear that Big Thompson and Peggoty Gorman are in town. They eat marshals for breakfast," Cohan said.
"They should be ordered out of town."
"Don't try it, Dick. I know you're game, but you're not that good and you're not that fast."
"And Coburn is?"
"If any man is."
"He'd be another Thompson, then."
"Not Matt Coburn," Buckwalter said. "I'd stake my life on him. In fact," he said wryly, "I already have. Several times."
(from The Empty Land, by Louis L'amour)
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