No hardship could seem too great, no trail too long, no mountain impassable when the vision was upon them.”                    –Louis L’Amour  (The Tall Stranger)          “Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which…

For when I looked upon the beauty and upon the distance, I could only think how short was a man’s life, with all the things to be done, the words to be spoken, the many miles to ride.”                    –Louis L’Amour  (The Man From the Broken Hills)…

Do you know the Western land? Do you know the far plains and the high, snow-crested ridges? Do you know the beaver streams, the water laughing in the bright sun? Do you know the sound of wind in pines? The cloud shadows on the desert’s face? Have you stood on a high ridge and looked…