A Man Called Meadows

ISBN-13: 9781438988771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 188 str.

Bernard Schaefer

Opis

THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A TALL RUGGEDLY HANDSOME YOUNG COW POKE THAT GREW UP ON A DIRT POOR FARM IN THE LATE 1800'S. HIS DAD REALIZED YOU COULD SUCCEED WITH POWER OR MONEY. THERE WASN"T ANY CHANCE OF HIS SON HAVING MONEY SO TO EVEN ALL THE PLAYING FIELD THAT HIS SON WOULD ENCOUNTER HE PUT A GUN IN HIS HAND FOR POWER. FROM THE TIME MEADOWS WAS 8 YEARS OLD HE WOULD PRACTICE THE FAST DRAW. DAY'S WOULD LEAD TO WEEKS, AND WEEKS TO YEARS HE PRACTICED THE FAST DRAW UNTIL THAT PEARL HANDLED COLT 45 THAT SWUNG FROM THE HIPS OF A TALL, THIN RUGGEDLY HANDSOME LOOKING YOUNG MAN WITH PIERCING GRAY EYES WOULD BE QUITE A SIGHT TO SEE. HE NEVER SOUGHT TO BE KNOWN AS A GUN FIGHTER, BUT WHEN YOUR WORKING CATTLE DRIVES FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS THERE ARE A LOT OF TOWNS WHERE REPUTATIONS CAN BUILD OVER NIGHT. AS MEADOWS TRAVELED THESE TOWNS THERE WOULD BE ENOUGH OCCASIONS WHERE MEADOWS WOULD BE PUT TO THE TEST. HE LIVED AT A TIME WHEN NAMES LIKE WYATT EARP, DOC HOLLIDAY, AND WILD BILL HICKOCK WERE LIVING LEGENDS IN EVERY TRAIL CITY IN THE WEST. BUT TO A MAN, ALL OF THOSE THAT SAY ANY OF THEM DRAW, WHEN THEY SAW MEADOWS IN ACTION, TO A MAN, AND I MEAN EVERY MAN ALL DECLARED THAT MEADOWS WAS FASTER THAN ALL OF THEM. THEN THERE WAS CARMON. SHE WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, SENSUOUS YOUNG MEXICAN LADY THAT COULD STIR THE HEART OF ANY MAN THE PROBLEM WAS, SHE ONLY HAD EYES FOR ONE MAN. A MAN CALLED MEADOWS. SO WHAT WAS IT ON THE NIGHT THAT THIS TALL GOOD LOOKING RATHER QUIET COWPOKE WALKED INTO THIS LITTLE MEXICAN CANTINA IN ODEYSSA, TEXAS AND THEY BOTH LAID EYES ON EACH OTHER. WAS IT FATE, DIVINE INTERVENTION, LUCK, OR WAS IT WRITTEN IN THE