How the West Was Won Quotes

“I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means.”
― Louis L'Amour, How the West Was Won

“So simple a thing, a lighted fire, yet it was a symbol of man's first great step toward civilization, and it was his instinctive return to reality when times of trouble came.”
― Louis L'Amour, How the West Was Won

“For several years now she had been hearing that name...the Ohio...until it was burned into her consciousness. Men talked of it as they talked of the Promised Land.”
― Louis L'Amour , How the West Was Won

“Jeremiah stood there alone, his big hands empty, watching his brother go. Zeb was the last of his family, and when his family went west they never came back. Linus had come back, but that was before Jeremiah's time. None of the others ever had.

"There must be something out there," he said aloud. "There must be something out there that gets 'em."

Then, half smiling, he added, "Maybe it's the varmint!”
― Louis L'Amour, How the West Was Won

“We both should have left the train at Salt Lake. With the Mormons, you may have to share your man but at least you've got one.”
― Louis L'Amour, How the West Was Won

“A man is as big as his dreams are. If you want to make big tracks on the land, you got step out and start walking.”
― Louis L'Amour, How the West Was Won