James Leonard > Quotes

“clears”
― James Leonard, Finders Keepers : A Western Frontier Story

“shotgun”
― James Leonard, Rescue At Dawn: A Western Frontier Story

“website”
― James Leonard, Finders Keepers : A Western Frontier Story

“business venture”
― James Leonard, Return to Brigand’s Gate: A Western Frontier Story

“down. He’d expected Rex to argue with him, to negotiate the price down some. Amos would have gladly taken two-hundred dollars to keep his mouth shut and go away. It actually hurt him a little that Rex hadn’t begged him to stay on as a ranch hand; he’d expected the younger Tovey to at least bring up the notion. Amos shook his head as he rode on toward the spot where he would connect with the road that led to town. It probably wasn’t Rex’s decision anyway, it occurred to him. Old Man Tovey called all the shots on the ranch. Amos had had a hard time believing that at first, given how aged and ill and decrepit the senior Tovey was. But gradually he’d come to accept the truth of the situation. His ultimate boss for the past several months had been a man who had one foot—hell, one foot and three toes—in the grave. After tucking the money away, Amos Fitch rode on, determined that he would put the whole affair behind him. I’ll move on west, he told himself. California. Five-hundred dollars is enough to give a man a good start on a new life . . . A few minutes later, with the road in sight a couple hundred years before him, Amos became aware of movement nearby. At first, he assumed that a small or mid-sized animal was darting out from the brush, but it quickly became apparent that the source of the movement was something”
― James Leonard, The First to Draw

“her”
― James Leonard, Ghost Hunt : A Western Frontier Story

“and”
― James Leonard, Rescue At Dawn: A Western Frontier Story

“riding into whatever reckoning lay between them. Scarlett was riding into it, too, whether she understood the full meaning of that yet or not. | | | |Sixteen The pines leaned over the trail like watchmen, their shadows striping the ground in uneven distances. Even with the sunlight, the air was cool”
― James Leonard, Silent Was The Man : A Western Frontier Story

“01”
― James Leonard, Everett Battle

“Kindness didn’t cost one red cent, though most people didn’t care to spend nothing at all to be kind.”
― James Leonard, Brothers’ Last Stand: A Western Frontier Story