Skeet Will

Broschiertes Buch

Me and Jinx

Beschreibung

Johnny Fry's favorite times growing up were when his Uncle Bill would visit, and with Johnny's pa, they would sit round the stove at night and talk of adventures they had in their youth as riders for the Pony Express. When Johnny's pa dies in the Spring of 1884, eighteen-year-old Johnny sets out to ride the Pony Express Trail to Sacramento, nineteen hundred miles away. With his 'little buddy', Jinx, a little black cat, he leaves his Kansas hometown and rides into a reality much different from the dreams of his childhood. It's a reality of sweeping grasslands, towering mountains, simmering deserts, and raging rivers; of drunks, thieves, and murderers; of friends and enemies and someone to fall in love with. The West of 1884 is still the wild and beautiful place of legend. Billy the Kid and Jesse James are not long in their graves, Wyatt and Virgil Earp are alive and living in California, and the great cattle drives are still fresh in the memories of many. Surrounded by the beauty and perils of the Old West, Johnny must become a man or die trying.

Autor

I was born Douglas Carlton Will II in Luray, VA in the summer of 1943. I was nicknamed Skeeter at birth and have been Skeet ever since. My dad worked for the Navy, my mother for the Air Force and I grew up on the south side of the Potomac River, a stone's throw from the Pentagon. I spent two years in the Army in the early sixties and met and married my wife, Mary, in October 1964, just in time to avoid the Vietnam War. Twin daughters came along a couple of years later. After much trial and error I became a taxi driver in the mid 70's. The job allowed me to travel and we lived in seven different cities around the U.S. over the next twenty five years. We eventually settled in Portland, OR the year after Mt. St. Helen's erupted (1980). To keep me busy while my wife attended nursing school, I enrolled at Portland State University and did Master's Degree work in U.S. History graduating in 1993. I lost my job as a cabbie when I failed a drug test and after looking around a bit decided to join my wife as a nurse. I graduated in 2001 and spent eleven years as an oncology nurse and a travel nurse. After forty-five wonderful years I lost my wife, Mary in June 2010. One of the twins, Diane died in Sept. 2015. I met Bev in Sept. 2010 and we've been together ever since. At present I live in Gresham OR with Bev three cats, including a little black one named Jinx. My daughter Samantha lives in Vancouver WA and my grandson Will lives in Milwaukie Or. At age seventy-six, this is my first novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: JK Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9798998656545
• Artikelnr.: 75165472