Rest under Texas skies, Larry McMurtry.
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“It’s been quite a party ain’t it?” – Gus McCrae. (Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove. Simon & Schuster, 1985.)
One last adventure
two aging Texas Rangers
are Montana bound
Cowboys*, Indians, and whores
An Iliad of heroes
*Real cowboys– not the mythologized, cleaned-up, Roy Rogers types,nor the modern “hat and boots at a bar” urban pseudo-cowboy dandies–but rather men with scars and grit (who were also men from Mexico and who were former Southern slaves) who savored freedom over comfort. Cowboys were comfortable with both ladies and whores. They were men who could shoot, ride, and rope, and they often lived lives variously on either side of the law.
