G E Jones

Long Ride to Laramie: Beginnings G E Jones 1st edition

Amos Moss was only fourteen when he watched the young couple that were his best friends brutaly raped and murdered by six Union raiders. By the next day they were dead and the course of his life had begun. Drifting west with the railroad, he battled the Indians who would stop the Iron Horse, hunted buffalo with Bill Cody, and eventually ended up in Laramie. He had thought about becoming a cowhand and settling down. His future seemed set until he ran into a hired gun from Colorado. At the age of twenty he had moved on and his best friends were a Scottish giant, an Irish city boy turned cowboy and a Sheep Eater Indian with a British accent and several college degrees. Amos had never wanted to be a gun hand, but now he had accidentally become a range detective for Thomas Ivonovich Cullen, the tough Russian/Irish owner of the huge TIC ranch. Horse thieves and rustlers ran rampant and Cullen hated them. That's when the adventures really started. "Beginnings" is the first in a series that chronicles the life of Amos Moss and several of the other characters. It parallels the rough times and many actual events that were part of the cattle barron days in south east Wyoming.