Hard and perilous life in a barren and wild country developed great principles in men. Living close to earth, under the cold, bleak peaks, on the dust-veiled desert, men grew like the nature that developed them—hard, fierce, terrible, perhaps, but big—big with elemental force.” –Zane…
Coffee Percs
He was a pragmatic man. He reached for the coffee.” –Elmer Kelton Pard, come on in an’ help me out. No, it’s not the coffee; it’s ready to drink. But sometimes this new lingo gets me right confused and discombobulated. I…
Echoes From the Campfire
I had to fight my first battle to conquer my own stubborn soul.” –Max Brand (Riders of the Silences) “But I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be…
Echoes From the Campfire
It does not matter how cold, bitter or long winter may last; spring, eventually, comes.” –Kenneth Pratt (Dragon’s Fire) “As long as the earth remains, there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.”…