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Former soldier and Army sharpshooter turned brawler and drunk. Charlie Deegan winds up in Yuma Territorial Prison. Knowing he can't last the remaining nine years of his sentence, he escapes determined to change his life. Charlie heads north hoping to become a cowboy. Beaten down by the harsh Sonora Desert, he discovers a mummified miner whose hoard of supplies gives Charlie a new chance at life. He befriends a cowboy, Creed McCall, who agrees to help him get a job on a north bound cattle drive. Untested as a cowboy, Charlie must start as the cook's helper. As the herd heads out on the long trail drive, will he be able to prove that he has what it takes to become a real cowboy?
About the Author
Mike Thompson is an award-winning author and photographer. He retired from the government where he tested explosives and was developer and curator of a military museum; The Yuma Proving Ground Heritage Center. He was an Amy medic in Vietnam ('66-'67) with a military career that spanned 42 years, ('60-'02) , including Air Force, Army, National Guard and Reserves. Mike, his wife Ruthie, and cats, Daisy and Molly, live on the Laughing Horse Ranch, Land & Cattle Company, San Angelo, Texas. He has owned several businesses, worked as an actor, carpenter, bartender, oil land man, raised horses, was an explosives project engineer and done many other things while trying to decide what he was going to be if he grows up. Today he writes, collects cowboy art and gear, drinks beer and western dances with Ruthie at assorted dance halls and saloons across Texas.
