A. Michener, Larry McMurtry (thanks, Larry, I’ve watcher “Lonesome Dove” 14,952 times thusfar, and will do so again after tennis this morning), Wallace Stenger, Charles Portis, EdwardAbbey, Jack Schaefer, A.B. Guthrie, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Edna Ferber,Luke Short, Max Brand, Zane Grey (I always bow my head a second driving past your old homein Altadena, up the avenues a few blocks from Pasadena, California, on my way to theHuntington Library in San Marino), Willa Cather (wish I had met you in college because youwould not have had a choice!), Jack London, Andy Adams, Owen Wister, Mark Twain, BretHarte, and James Fenimore Cooper. All of you, make us cry, and cry hard, to truly feel alive to
reach the highest, and, even then, higher and higher, as your heroes insist.
