“Louise, when a man gets thrown off a horse he’s
breaking, the first thing he ought to do is get up and get back on and ride
that horse. It’s not the horse he’s got to master—it’s his own opinion of
himself. The horse that bucked him, it just represents something. He’s got to do
it then and there, not the next day or the next week. A man’s got to get on top
of his trouble, or it’ll get on top of him.”
Oh, this 1959 honey from Mr. Brown stacks so much good
work in its brief page-count. He inverts the romanticism of the gunfight, and
gets the ear-ringing and remorseful trembling feelings right.
If I had a complaint, and I don’t, it’s that I don’t
have enough of Mr. Brown on my shelf.
Solid fare for readers who enjoy a moral compass in
their leisure reading.
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