Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

by Larry McMurtry

as he stuffed an extra box or two of ammunition into his saddlebags.

I love this ambiguity.

He and Augustus had discussed the question of leadership many times. “It ain’t complicated,” Augustus maintained. “Most men doubt their own abilities. You don’t. It’s no wonder they want to keep you around. It keeps them from having to worry about failure all the time.”