Comanche Moon: A Story of Courage and Conflict on the Texas Frontier From the Prize-Winning Author of Lonesome Dove

by Larry McMurtry

He just felt he ought to; it was his conscience, not his heart, which moved him to put the six dollars on her table every month.

“I don’t know what of,” Goodnight informed him. “I suppose she’s just dying of living—that’s the one infection that strikes us all down, sooner or later.”

When he felt disturbances in his life, as all men would, Famous Shoes tried to go back to one of the simple places, the places of rock and sky, to steady himself and grow calm again.

I don’t think you deserve a hanging.” “No, but for luck I might have,” Augustus said, turning in his saddle to take one last look at the grove where the ten bodies hung.