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It's 1870 and Sarah McClanahan, along with her husband Effird and daughter Cassie, are headed to California to find their nugget of gold. Tragedy strikes along the way, and Sarah's life is not at all the way she planned it.

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The Oklahoma Badlands makeup a great many tales some true and others only true in the imagination of the story teller. The later is the case here. My question to you is can a thing be evil or is it man that makes it such? I say both can be true. Travel along with me on this twelve day journey. Watch your P’s and Q’s at least eight people die, due to this evil, three more are left for dead and one lucky man is saved. This journey will be a fast and hard ride; from a quite town to an Indian village tucked away in the mountains and from there a whirl wind of events will rip through a homestead and leave us south of the Red River. Good luck and happy reading.

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Even little Cowboys can like to dance

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This short story is based on an event that happened on my family's ranch in Eastern Oregon about a century ago, in which 30 horses were killed in a barn fire. I've taken the liberty to imagine the event, weaving around the few details of which I have knowledge. J.W. was my grandfather. I write non-fiction, primarily personal essays and memoir. This is my first and possibly last work of fiction, and my first introduction to 'The Next Big Writer'. If you have the patience to read to the end, thank you. (Be kind.)

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a day on the trail

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A bounty hunter tells his own story as he and his best friend pursue some very dangerous hombres in Arizona during the 1870s. Making the bounty hunter's task more dangerous is the fact that the bad men know that they're being pursued.

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Wyatt Dillon was born and reared in the Leinster Mountains near a little town called Bunclody in County Wexford Ireland. From an early age he fell in love with the American West. At the end of the 1960’s he immigrated to America to follow his dream of still finding the cowboy way of life. Despite the obstacles and the disillusionment of finding out that the cowboys days were long gone he fulfilled part of his dream by setting up and acting as guide on trails rides for outfitter camps across America. Because of his vast knowledge of the local Leinster mountains and forests in 1990 he was hired by an syndicate in Oklahoma to set up a western outfitters ranch in his home town up in the mountains which he had not seen since he immigrated. During his term working there he rekindled his friendship with his boyhood best friend Shane Conrad. He also met Maria Larimore, a beautiful young horse-loving model that stole his heart and her unpredictable friend Jack Travelion, a rich and very ambitious young man. After a burning relationship with Maria and despite his love for her he decided to return to America where he met the equally beautiful young ranchers daughter Mandy Newman. Within a year they were married and started up their own ranch in Riverton Wyoming breeding and training young reining horses. Fifteen years on Maria Travelion as she was now called, and her fourteen-year-old son were kidnapped and had been taken into the Leinster Mountains on horse back by four dreadful men who were also wanted in America for other crimes. On the request of Maria’s very rich parents who lived in New York, the FBI in coordination with the local Irish police called in Wyatt to help them track down the kidnappers. Leaving his home and lovely young wife Mandy in Riverton, Wyatt returned to Ireland where he rode into the forests after the kidnappers risking his life for his former sweetheart. Could he get to them in time before they died of the winter cold or at the hands of their kidnappers? Where was his old friend Shane? Was his love for Maria more than what he had for Mandy? Would he stay this time or not. Would she still want him to stay? Did she really love Travelion? In the cold dark treacherous mountains, and after the death of four innocent men, Wyatt using all his mountain experience and cunning on his old mountain horse Smokie, finally came face to face with the kidnappers to fight it out to a bitter and deadly end. When the echo of the guns stopped and the mist rose, who would finally ride down out of the mountains?.

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Cactus Slim's cousin Bill finds a nickname

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Cactus Slim is tracking an outlaw

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Caleb finds his alter ego and Cactus Slim is born.

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Bedtime story for your little cowboy, telling what his soul was doing in heaven before he was born.

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Back in the 70s, I lived in San Antonio, Texas for about five years. I played lead guitar in a country band while I was there. I would see all these guys in their Stetson hats and Tony Lama boots trying to impress the ladies. My guess...you put any one of them on a horse and they'd crap all over themselves. I got to thinking abnout it and wondered when the last TRUE cowboy would eventually disappear. This is what I came up with. Any and all comments welcomed.

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This is the beginning of a Western. The diffference is that this is an Australian telling, set in the goldrush days of Western Australia. Outlaws roamed the highways and byways - but they were known as bail-up men, as bushrangers. Here we meet two who plied their trade upon the gold escorts out of the goldfields of Western Australia. Meet Captain Comet and the Coolgardie Kid. Here we hear of their exploits as they lead the quest for a lengendary seam of this most precious of metals, but it's a blighted pursuit. Join our intrepid duo in "The Curse of the Convict Gold".

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