Echoes From the Campfire

You old men are a different breed. I can’t even think the way you think. You smell danger five minutes before it happens. You make a lifetime of decisions in a split second of terror that would freeze most men. Then you put it all behind you with a joke. You go on back to…

Echoes From the Campfire

Trust is a wonderful thing.”                –Ernest Haycox  (Guns of Fury)        “Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.’”                –James 4:15 (NKJV)———————————–               “There is…

The Saga of Miles Forrest

I had only been inside this church one other time.  It was when I was town marshal and had to chase down a man who cut up one of the saloon girls.  He claimed what he called “sanctuary.”  Now I know to respect the church, but from what I recall only the Levites could declare…

Echoes From the Campfire

And her hand was soft and trembly        That night underneath the tree,        When I couldn’t help but tell her        She was ‘all the world to me.’”                     –Charles “Badger” Clark  (“A Bad Half Hour”)        …