Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy. - Louis L'Amour

For three days, Shandy Gamble had been lying on his back in the Perigord House awaiting the stranger in the black mustache. Nichols, his name was, and if they were ever going to start cattle buying they had better be moving. The season was already late.

"From Elisha Comes to Red Horse:

"I leave their politics and religion be. Folks can think the way they want, act the way they please, even to acting the fool. All I ask is they don't make too much noise and don't interfere with other people.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.