I decided I needed a break from studying this weekend. Pam wanted to try out her new 'sit-n-stand' stroller with the girls, so we took them on a walk to the park for some slide time (the sun was out and it was a balmy 55'ish degrees). On the way out the door I decided on a whim to take a Louis L'Amour book along that had been sitting on my headboard for weeks begging me to read it. The title is "Utah Blaine", which caught my interest for reasons that should be obvious. Utah is a gunfighter who escapes from a Mexican prison and flees north to Arizona territory with nothing but the clothes on his back. On the trail he rescues a wealthy rancher from being hung by his low-down, no-account, two-bit, (you get the idea) varmint of a ranch manager and several other thugs. Utah and this new friend strike a deal to quell the conspiracy of land-hungry neighbors and preserve the ranch. Of course as Utah takes to his new job there are plenty of badguys to fill with lead, but a fiery, attractive, and implausibly available young woman shows up in this Arizona frontier story and you just can't help hoping Utah can get the girl in the end... but those flea-bitten, yellow-bellied, cattle-rustlin' pole-cats just keep turning up and it makes for a great story.
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