It wasn’t unusual for men to buy dynamite since this was a mining hub, but it bothered me that three miscreants would be purchasing the goods. Perhaps I was thinking wrongly, they might be working up in one of the canyons at a digging, but my gut instinct told me different. I was hoping that…
Echoes From the Campfire
Look to the hills. They are quiet. The storms sweep over them and are gone, and most of man’s troubles pass the same way. Whenever you feel that things are getting too much for you, go to the mountains or the desert—it smooths out the wrinkles in your mind.” …
Coffee Percs
They enjoyed a last cup of coffee while the dark eased out of the canyons of the mountains way off to their west and slipped over the flat prairies.” –C. Wayne Winkle (A Dangerous Beginning) “Ridin’ down the canyon, to watch the sun go…
Echoes From the Campfire
For the storm, as it massed heavier and nearer, filling the earth with its desolation, bridged vast spaces for him, and he found himself suddenly face to face with the might-have-beens of yesterday.” –James Oliver Curwood (The Valley of Silent Men a Story of the Three…