Law Of the Desert Born (Ss) (1984) by L'amour Louis

Author:L'amour, Louis [L'amour, Louis]
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Published: 2010-12-12T06:26:46.031000+00:00

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Author's Note:

STEIN'S PASS

One night when I was not quite seventeen years old I was put off a freight train at Stein's Pass, New Mexico, high in the mountains near the Arizona/New Mexico border. I'd been at sea on a merchant ship and needed to save what money I had, so I caught a freight to the west. It was a miserably cold night, and when day broke and I saw some stirring of life, I walked from the depot over to the only lunch counter for coffee.

At the counter I started talking to an old cowboy. Stein's Pass, he said, was where it all happened: holdups, Indian fights, and nearby, in Doubtful Canyon, one of the most desperate desert battles, a fight between the Apaches and the passengers of a stagecoach, all of them salty veterans of many a battle. When all were killed, Cochise is reported to have said they were the bravest men he ever knew.

A few years ago, after watching some work being done on a movie of mine near Tuscon, I drove over to the area I was to write about in SHALAKO. I stopped briefly in Stein's Pass. A few buildings remained with empty windows staring blankly across the desert mountains, and a wild burro was wandering around the street. It was a ghost town and properly named. There could be many ghosts around Stein's Pass. The old cowboy told the truth.

Sleeping echoes of many a battle still wait in the shadow of the canyon.

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