The Mountain Valley War (1978)
“The corral bars were down and the saddle stock had been run off. Where Dick Moffit's homestead had been that morning there was now only desolation, emptiness, and death.
Dick Moffit lay sprawled on the hard-packed earth of his barnyard, the earth deeply clawed in the agony of death. Even from where he sat on the long-legged buckskin, the man known as Trent could see Moffit had been shot at least six times. Three bullets had gone in from the front, the other three fired directly into his back by... a man who stood over him. And Dick Moffit had been unarmed.
The small green valley lay still in the lazy afternoon sun, heat emanating from the burned timbers.
So this was the way a dream ended! Dick Moffit had sold a good business back east to try his luck at stock-raising in the far west, something for which he had longed since boyhood.
The man who called himself Trent walked his horse slowly around the burned-out farm. Four or five men had come here, one of them riding a horse with a split right-rear hoof.MoreLess
Dick Moffit lay sprawled on the hard-packed earth of his barnyard, the earth deeply clawed in the agony of death. Even from where he sat on the long-legged buckskin, the man known as Trent could see Moffit had been shot at least six times. Three bullets had gone in from the front, the other three fired directly into his back by... a man who stood over him. And Dick Moffit had been unarmed.
The small green valley lay still in the lazy afternoon sun, heat emanating from the burned timbers.
So this was the way a dream ended! Dick Moffit had sold a good business back east to try his luck at stock-raising in the far west, something for which he had longed since boyhood.
The man who called himself Trent walked his horse slowly around the burned-out farm. Four or five men had come here, one of them riding a horse with a split right-rear hoof.MoreLess
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Guest 2 years ago
I've seen L'amour use "old Son" a few times, and that particular term was coined and trademarked by Max brand, the best western writer of all. In fact, many years ago my dear uncle, who was a pharmacist of such fame that he was called "doctor" and all his customers went to him when He was also ill, and bot to a doctor. my godfather, and we were close, besides living across the road from one another. he began to use that term on me, and I wondered, until I found that he hsd suddenly become interested in Max Brand books. I read a few myself and there is was.
Guest 8 months ago
Lamour's ignorance shows again. "Though they carried no more than the water and a fw tools".4 60 gallonkegs weights 2400 lbs, plus tools and empty keg weights, say 2500 lbs. Plus at least one or two men say another 200 lbs.
Tjis would weigh more than whatever food they could bring back, PLUS water weight etc. a HUGE load.
Guest 8 months ago
Daniel Mendoza, a Jew from London's ghetto was the very first who brought science and footwork to boxing. He was no more than 5'7" tall and 150 lbs but he beat allm and sundry for years.This was 100 years before Jem Mace. whom Lamour says was the first to bring science to boxing.
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