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RE: [DL] A Survey [so Marguerite has something to read ;-)]



>>Event that personifies the "Old West" to you
>>Fiction:  "Come back, Shane!"  (Shane)
>>Nonfiction:  Earp/Holliday showdown with the cowboys in Dodge City

>Tombstone, AZ.


No, I actually meant Dodge City, not the "Shootout at the OK Corral."  I
should have been more specific.  I'm sorry for the confusion.  Obviously,
the Cowboys (capital "C") would be thought of when I said cowboys (little
"c").  I just didn't think of that.  I knew what I meant; does that count?
;-)


>>Favorite Villain
>>Fiction:  Darius Hellstrome
>>Nonfiction:  After thinking about it, nonfiction villain is kind of
unfair.
>>There were some pretty bad guys in the old west, but it'd be hard to
>>classify anyone a true "villain."  Feel free to drop this one.  :)

>JP Morgan.


If I were giving out prizes, I think we'd have a winner.


Clint Black

"You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing else in the
world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost rock in the morning. You
know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over
I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Yank body. The
smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...
victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."