Max Brand

The Stage To Yellow Creek Max Brand

There are so many different kinds of courage in this world that it's a dangerous thing to say right out that this man is brave and that one a coward. Take, for instance, the eleven people who started out that day, many years ago, on the stage trip from Fort Winton to Yellow Creek. I was one of the eleven, and, what is a great deal more important, I was one of the few who lived to tell of that terrible journey. Fear came to all of us before the thing was over. But what I'm trying to get across is that everyone-even the poor devils who died like cowards-showed courage of one sort or another before the end.