To Tame A Land

My daughter and I love the bookstore.

We have, on occasion, spent between four and five hours at the store reading.

Today however, we only spent about an hour and a half.

I read portions of Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller, and Porn University by Michael Leahy. I purchased Glenn Beck's Common Sense, and Timothy Stoner's The God Who Smokes. I also made a discovery which had me dancing like a giddy little school girl in the middle of the Western Fiction aisle. A title by which the fourth chapter of Christian Soldier was named:

To Tame A Land, by Louis L'Amour.

Ahhh...Nostalgia.

There is a short paragraph from To Tame A Land I wanted to use in Christian Soldier which at one point actually graced the pages of the book. It would have been poetic to use the quote: Remembering who gave gave me my first copy of the book, and who that person turned out to be, and who and what I turned out to be. Though I illustrate those parallels in the book, the quote didn't seem to work, and I wasn't gonna force it. So in the end, the excerpt was removed.

But hey, I still get the opportunity to share it here:


Enemies may come into our country
and times will have changed,
but then the boys will come down from the old high hills
and belt on their guns again.

To Tame A Land
-Louis L'Amour-
1965