In This World Men Struggle And Suffer

Animals Are Neither Gods Nor Fiends, But Men In Their Way Without The Lust And Greed Of Man.

The Only Safe Enemy Was A Headless Enemy.

One Objection I Have Heard Voiced To Works Of This Kind—dealing With Texas—is The Amount Of Gore Spilled Across The Pages. It Can Not Be Otherwise. In Order To Write A Realistic And True History Of Any Part Of The Southwest, One Must Narrate Such Things, Even At The Risk Of Monotony.

In The Hill Country, Civilization Steals In Last, And The People Retain Much Of The Crude But Vigorous Mode Of Expression Of The Colonial Days And Earlier.

Men Are But Men, And The Greatest Men Are They Who Soonest Learn The Simpler Things.