Quotes From "Shadow Country" By Peter Matthiessen

There is a difference between right and wrong, always was...
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There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right are different. Peter Matthiessen
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Webster said, ''Time them skeeters get done with that old man, his French blood will be all gone and he will speak American as good as we do. Peter Matthiessen
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Around about now, young John Owen comes out of the shack lugging my old musket from the War. At six years of age, our youngest boy already knew his business. Not a word, just brings the shooting iron somewhat closer so's he don't waste powder, then hoists her up, set to haul back on the trigger. I believe his plan was to shoot this feller, get the story later. Peter Matthiessen