Echoes From the Campfire

Somebody has once said that nature abhors a vacuum; well, from all I’d seen, I would say that nature dislikes anything that doesn’t produce.”                    –Louis L’Amour  (Hanging Woman Creek)        “Has the LORD redeemed you?  Then speak out!  Tell others he has saved you…

Coffee Percs

He pushed his way to the end of the car where a blackened gallon coffeepot sat simmering on the stove. He got a cup and poured himself a jot of this stiff drink—strong enough to float a track bold—and drank it…”                     –Ernest Haycox  (Trouble Shooter)…

Echoes From the Campfire

I didn’t need to worry about right an’ wrong as long as I continued to worry about right and wrong.”                    –James D. Best  (Leadville)        “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is…

Echoes From the Campfire

In its own cruel way, there is nothing that is finally more brutally depressing than a forever hostile sky flooding down constant, battering waves of chilling raindrops that go on and on without end.”                    –Clair Huffaker  (The Cowboy and the Cossack)        “I would…