Western Fiction Quotes

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Gregg Edwards Townsley
“I’ve seen it all in Nevada, Kansas before that, and the War of Northern Aggression before that. People do all sorts of nasty things. And while I used to believe that there was something profoundly wrong about the human condition—sin passed on from the first man and that only the grace of God in Jesus Christ could make everything right, the standard explanation in churches Mormon to Methodist—it didn’t take me long to learn that Christians and non-Christians, women and men, young and old were all capable of doing the worse things a human being might imagine, and then some.

From my upcoming novel, BATHHOUSE ROW, (available this fall).”
Gregg Edwards Townsley

Mark Baugher
“It took me sixty tears of the rough life to get ready to write a novel. When I started I was on fire.”
Mark Baugher, C-Bar

Mary Connealy
“Marry her? Do I look crazy?”

“There ain’t enough ‘ruin’ in this world to make me marry him.”
Mary Connealy, The Accidental Guardian

Jody Hedlund
“The onlookers had seen not three men in the fire, but four. God hadn’t taken them out of the fiery trial. He’d walked with them through it.”
Jody Hedlund, A Cowboy for Keeps

Andrew Skafte
“The engineer didn't pay any attention to a lone figure poised on the top of the bridge, staring down at the oncoming train. He wore a black cowboy hat and a tattered dister coat. His waist was belted with two Colt 45 revolvers.”
Andrew Skafte, Clayton's Revenge