Well, I went to the library and got a book there...Zane Grey's "The Border Legion", and read it yesterday.

Wow! What a great story. The thing I like about Zane Grey is that his stories are morality plays in a grand setting, examining the tremendous potential for good and evil in human beings, and the struggle to lose or redeem one's soul. What could really matter more?

Beats me how I could have lived for 50 years before discovering the joys of western fiction...

It's a shame that people tend to be so cynical these days, and have so little faith in the greater purposes of life. I think it's the result of mass consumerism. People have really lost their sense of the sacred...

"For the love of a lousy buck I've watched them die" - Bob Dylan

Whether it's for gold, oil, sex or the dollar...it's in blind pursuit of those that men vainly lose their lives, and at the end of it all they die wasted and empty, but someone may still mourn for them...because of the goodness they might have done.

- LH