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This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within da...

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They caught up their horses and turned back. Nothing moved in that high wilderness save the wind. Th...

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Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

They began to come upon chains and packsaddles, singletrees, dead mules, wagons. Saddletrees eaten b...

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No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He w...

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he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for...

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Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong ass...

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A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sa...

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States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in the...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparsenes...

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Wallace StegnerWhere the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs

There is, perhaps, no class of men on the face of the earth, says Captain Bonneville, who lead a lif...

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When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.