Category: Western Publisher: Bighorn Publishing
ISBN-10: 0972280820
Type: Fiction
Pages: 164
Copyright: Jan 1 2000
Each short story in this anthology relates the experiences of Tommy Geiger from the age of ten until he fails to return from an
elk hunt at age eighty-five.
Excerpt
The main thing I remember about Butch Slade was the grin plastered on the face of his corpse. I don’t suppose anyone thought anything about it, because that’s how he always looked: bloodshot eyes and tobacco-stained teeth bared between those lips screwed up at the corners. Now that he was dead and laid out in a pine box in front of Pa’s furniture store, everyone came to look at him. Come to think of it, I don’t reckon he’d of minded.
I was only ten at the time. My Pa had the only furniture store in Lander, Wyoming. Besides bedsteads and tables, he sold caskets. That’s kind of the way they did things back then. A hundred dollars would buy you a fancy hardwood casket stained and varnished like your parlor table. He didn’t sell many of those. Most folks went for the twenty-five-dollar pine box with the nailed-down lid. It didn’t seem to matter. None of his customers ever bragged or complained about their accommodations.
Story inspired by life of the author's great grandfather, a Black Cowboy who kidnapped his Native American bride after a cattle drive from Waco, TX to Dodge City, KS. Their story, him a master horseman and her a trained to be a healer with herbs and
An adventure-filled time-travel western. Given a 5-star editorial review in 2020 by the InD'tale Magazine. "The weaving in of actual historical connections between the characters is fascinating. Fans of this genre will love the originality with the a
