Ever so often I need to be reminded
of this. Come to think of it, I did
not get to the top of Longs Peak in
a single bound!

   "Victory is won not in miles but in inches.
     Win a little now, hold your ground,
     and later, win a little more."
                                                                     – Louis L'Amour

About Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour, the author known for his pulp westerns, wrote more than 100 novels in his lifetime. Born in North Dakota in 1908 as Louis LaMoore, he worked across the southwestern U.S. on a string of backbreaking jobs including longshoreman, elephant handler, and cattle skinner. He saw his writing as akin to telling tales by a campfire and wanted to be remembered simply as a good storyteller. He won the Medal of Freedom in 1984 and died in 1988.