As the years pass and youth reluctantly yields to age our life styles change, our way of thinking changes. We watch the wrinkles and gray slowly creeping in on us and we look back over the years remembering the good and the bad. We reminisce on by gone days with tears and laughter wondering how things might have changed if we had made different choices, taken a different path; we learn from our mistakes and try to pass on the lesson of life. 'Echoes of the Past' are memories and thoughts, stories told in a poetic form.

John Colyer presents "By the Gun: Outlaws and Lawmen," a book of western poetry. John goes back to the Old West where he displays his poetry in the old fashioned days of the wild west. Everything from a coach or bank robbery to being an outlaw with regrets for the life he has lost. Lawmen that try to throw down the badge only to pick it back up to save his family and town. John Colyer's poetry will take you on a journey that will let you walk the dirt streets, smell the gun powder and taste the true grit that men were made of back then. A wonderful experience of emotions and the raw west.

Dixon rubbed his face and ask, "You have any enemies, Wes?" Wes chuckled, "You know the answer to that, Sheriff. Let's see Johnson, Bowman, that henchman of McDonald's, what is his name - Speedy?" Dixon nodded his head slightly, "Yeah that was a dumb question, wasn't it? I know the same people who killed my deputy are responsible for this, but I'm having a hell of a hard time proving it." "Well Sheriff, I tried to stay out of this mess, but they brought it to my doorstep. They chucked the coals on the fire, now they're gonna burn." Wes said as he turned to the door tipping his hat. "Hold on...