CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK, SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR.
But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central theme of the n...
And the blue pigs walked all the way to Montana just to be eaten. Life ain’t for sissies, as Augustus might have said.
Though his day-to-day responsibilities had constantly shrunk over the last ten years, life did not seem easier. It just seemed smaller and a good deal more dull. Call
Perhaps as he grew older he would learn to trust mysteries and not fear them.
Figure the reason you don’t have much to say is you probably never met a man who liked to hear a woman talk.
Things are just put together wrong. There’s so much shit in the world a man’s gonna get in it sooner or later, whether he’s careful or not.
There was something different about her, Jake had to admit. She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met in a woman. Certain mountains were that way,...
Pea Eye loped up and unfolded himself in the direction of the ground. Your getting off a horse reminds me of an old crane landing in a mud puddle, Augustus said.
Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practi...
Life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and
Jake, you’re a dern grasshopper, Augustus said. You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you’re talking California.
It’s a funny life, Augustus said. All these cattle and nine-tenths of the horses is stolen, and yet we was once respected lawmen. If we get to Montana we’ll have to go into politics. You’ll wind up go...
Is the girl all right? She’s had an ordeal but she’s young, Augustus said. She won’t forget it, but she might outlive it.
If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.
I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's boun...
I wish you'd stop talking about your own death, Gus said, in a joking tone. It ain't genteel.
He remembered the cold nights in their Arkansas cabin when he was a boy—how his mother piled quilts on top of him and his brothers, how peaceful it seemed under the quilts. Then it seemed like sleep w...
Famous Shoes knew the young ranger was scared. Nothing was easier to detect in a man than fear. It showed even in the way he fumbled with his cup while drinking coffee; and it was normal that he would...
Even experienced men were apt to flounder badly in crises if they lacked leadership.