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<strong>THE</strong> OPEN<strong>IN</strong>G QUOTATION I’ve labored long and hard for bread, For honor and for riches, But on my corns too long you’ve tred You fine-haired sons of bitches. —Black Bart the Po8, 1877 (Note left after robbing the Arena Stagecoach, en route to Duncan’s Mill on the Russian River, California.)
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Page 3 and 4: What readers are saying... “Defin
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Page 13: THE PROLOGUE Leonard Franklin Slye
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Page 20 and 21: is clean-shaven. He appears to have
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Page 28 and 29: Ever since they were little boys, h
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Page 38 and 39: Gulls, white as the ferries, wheel
Page 40 and 41: Roy watches Rick plummet towards th
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Page 44 and 45: He re-enters his room and slams its
Page 46 and 47: his business and exiting the small
Page 48 and 49: Guns N’ Roses! And when he’s re
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Thus, the origin of Rainier Beer. G
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Michigan St exit, or the Albro Pl/S
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Roy only has two keys. He inserts o
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And, as the gods would have it, of
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ROY ROGERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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Ask the guy inside what the hell it
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Roy has a plan. His hand tightens o
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He counts them—there are four in
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Although, looking back at it—whic
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Spanning Jordan’s swelling tide;
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And this is how much his mind is ma
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Metasations; Chinese, Thai, Salvado
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course, by the time he thinks of so
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He springs open the doors. If Roy
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Roy hates broccoli. Not hate like a
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Pots and pots of the stuff. Apparen
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iefly present him with her Automati
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She forgot to ask him for his Safew
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The big, bracketing houses on eithe
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He threads his way to the door and
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Mel chews on his olive. “’eef S
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Roy winces. “Why don’t you tell
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He set about gathering firewood and
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ordered. On Roy’s first day worki
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met his comeuppance, and they would
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attle cups and spoons, jazzed to ha
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Roy wonders what they were laughing
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As stated earlier, Roy possesses bu
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he should do. But now he’s gone t
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evaporated during the night, embrac
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Sometimes it is referred to as bash
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There’s only one way to find out.
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ended him up in Wyoming and Montana
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Shades of night are falling As the
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plan? Had he not followed it throug
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counter and smiles at the waitress
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knows the entire inventory? That ha
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is simple: he is excited that he is
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The quiet in the Wailing Wall is de
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He clicks around a few knobs on a b
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Smoke starts to pour out from under
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But I ask you please Don’t fence
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Another vulture vultches. He takes
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hard to keep this sort of thing—
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On the sidewalk, the long shadows a
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Pecos started shootin’ up their l
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His tongue, squiggling inside his m
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Roy’s face muscles try hard to sm
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His eyes slide briefly, anxiously,
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What Old Guy does instead is he pat
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Roy smiles and nods back. “Roy wh
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The door slams shut. bang Roy’s s
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particularly unpleasant period when
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parking meters to thwart beefy, thi
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Just a little bit higher Little bit
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Over and over again it goes—yippe
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“Whiskey.” Unsurprised, the bar
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“When was last you seen him?” D
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Someone is banging away with his fi
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Old Guy’s room is illuminated by
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The gun seems to be getting heavy.
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“Harry Carey?” No. “Hoot Gibs
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Roy has a problem with this. “I,
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“For more’n thirty years he was
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manages to sit in the chair previou
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Young Guy looks to Old Guy and real
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It suits him. Pistol Pete. Isn’t
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Long Fellow. All but the Navajo fea
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The old, skinny bus driver sags int
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Mel sashays to where Rick is crumpl
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He opened to the first page and pee
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westward to the land of Texas. With
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he has been eighty-sixed from two i
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Smiling Guy deals with them every d
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Roy clutches his stack of CDs. Ther
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upon Roy’s gleaming baldness befo
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R as well as CD-RW? If you plan on
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Their voices are deep and rich and
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Does Debi ever shut up? Roy uncover
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The ones Rick is going through. “
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“I’m tapped. I need some green.
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Thus their caravan, comprised of a
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off Sol’s ears, and singed those
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Newmany vanilla ice cream into two
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put much stock in reading, that is
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“So, howz ’bout it? You game?
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Pete stands and the floor creaks as
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Pete rolls the baggie tight, slips
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A man in cowboy clothes and black h
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“He’s not ’spozed to.” Sinc
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Loving Trail—as it later became k
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Walsh saw ’im an’ tapped ’im
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In Pete’s head, he can clearly se
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“They were released th’ same ye
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Draw, Rick. Rick snaps his cigarett
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holes peppered the clapboard shingl
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When this failed to elicit a respon
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And the popcorn. Best popcorn in th
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and who knows what else to track yo
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“Don’t know anything about you.
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He does seem to like horses, though
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politician in need of the young con
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His eyes land on the mattress. Roy
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dope and restive sleeplessness. His
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“O” His grip on the knife tight
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“Shit.” Roy trots down the hall
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“Yes, ma’am, reckon so.” She
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“That’s what we call a coozie,
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He wishes it was a double-tall Amer
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chance to shut up. Don’t squat wi
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“Stuffin’ his horse.” “Oh.
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’60s an’ ’70s. Guy wrote th
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Thanksgiving, and he wants me to in
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The men dined on hearty fare, and t
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“You hold down his legs,” he in
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ching ching He chings his way to th
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from the bat-wing piping that cross
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Mel is preoccupied with where to pu
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Pete: “Buchanan Rides Alone.” M
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In the foreground, a cowboy gallops
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the fallin’ dusk when I get th’
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“I have to keep everything of val
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Mel, unopposed, pours. clink “So
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If one can be said to frown with co
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A car squeals to a stop. The three
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Rick takes another step. “Or anot
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There is motion; he is ushered alon
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