Despair? Why?
It hasn’t happened yet. It won’t happen as portrayed in various books and movies. And the outcome is far from certain.
Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils...
Mack: Shame what this town’s come to.
Charley Waite: You could do something about it.
Mack: What? We’re freighters. Ralph here’s a shopkeeper.
Charley Waite: You’re men, ain’t you?
Mack: I didn’t raise my boys just to see ‘em killed.
Charley Waite: Well you may not know this, but there’s things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.
From the Movie: ‘Open Range’