Status Updates From Dead Man's Walk

“I’m a stranger to sin.” — Bigfoot Wallace

The inconsistency of the “Indian threat.” They’re always there. Stealing horses. Gomez and Kicking Wolf. Taking pot shots. But they don’t out right kill them. It’s inconsistent with the dead and massacred travelers they come across. Why would they not be murdered in their sleep? The only excuse is because kicking wolf wants to”sport” ? That’s weak. Pg. 334

Going along from one river to the next. Summed up in the quote about rather being captured.

Aimless. Wandering. Lost in the desert.

“Well, they ain’t here now, why can’t we play a few hands?” Gus asked, annoyed that his friends were such sleepyheads

“They all died from foolishness.” — Matilda Roberts

“I’ve been a military man for twenty years, and most of my orders have been foolish.” — Captain Salazar

“It’ll have to be thought the eye hole. I’m all out of eyeballs.” — Colonel Caleb Cobb