Good generic character sketches by Louis L'Amour in the Bowdries Law episode, Strange Pursuit.

Ranger Bowdrie enters a bar and this is what he finds:


"An aging cowhand in faded blue denim with a tobacco tag hanging from his breast pocket, his faced seamed with years, weather, kindness, and irony.

"The town drunk; his face was a mirror for lost illusions , his eyes hungry with hope, his boots worn, and the old hands trembling.

"The solid, square - built rancher with new heels on his boots and an air of belligerent prosperity and affluence.

"The bartender, slightly bald back of the plastered black hair above a smooth, ageless face and brow.

"The wise, cold eyes and the deft, active hands ...*

"They were types of men without names, faces from a page of life he had turned many times, and faces he had often seen, like the husky young cowboy at the end of the bar who had a split lip and a welt on his cheek bone..."

*Heh, heh, heh... Boy, oh boy! So just how the heck could Louis L'Amour have even known about some of our favorite K of Cs here in good 'ole Brackettville, Texas?

Zip 78832?

In some cases at least going back well over 20 years or so? :)