Echoes From the Campfire

There’s no enemy quite as bitter as a friend who’s turned against you.”                     –Elmer Kelton  (Jericho’s Road)        “Rise, let us be going.  See, My betrayer is at hand.”                     –Matthew 26:46 (NKJV)——————————“Beware the…

Echoes From the Campfire

I think there is something here, something more than all you see and feel…it’s in the wind…. But you do not know what music is until you have heard the wind in the cedars, or the far-off wind in the pines.”                    –Louis L’Amour  (Conagher)    …

Echoes From the Campfire

It takes more than just blood to make a family. It takes love.”                         –Elmer Kelton  (The Way of the Coyote)         β€œMen and brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word…

The Saga of Miles Forrest

Things had seemed to settle down the next few days.  Charlie had gone up to Silverton to check on how the new marshal was doing.  I told Mateo that I would help him in his duties around town.  Durango was getting large enough, no, in fact, it was large enough that Mateo needed a deputy…