The Exodusters
The Man From Texas
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The weather was not a concern. Rain, shine, or snow, it felt good to be on a horse again. It felt good to be... alive!
God had, indeed, smiled on Augusta Ridge, Montana. It was a place of beauty... especially to a ‘reformed’ outlaw and a ‘reformed’, hopefully, gunman.
Walter and an "investor" in the J (Slash J) Ranch were ridin the line... checking their cattle, their fences and, their water on the small two-hundred acre spread.
It was hard, sunup to sundown, work. They accomplished this difficult task with the help of four others and... Matthew Tagon.
For Walter Jackson and Sever Bound, ranchin was ‘one helluva jollification’, compared to outlawin. Honest men didn’t get shot at... at least... not as much as... outlaws... and gunmen... Could be they both wondered why it had taken them so... long... to recognize the difference!
If they did wonder, neither would ever admit it to the other... they were ‘enjoyin’ the work, the sweat, the landscape, the not getting shot at... at least... not in the last year and a half.
Yessir, this was ‘one helluva jollification!’
Drainin the last drops of his beer, W. Walker Williams slid the glass onto the table... and smiled. He had, or thought he had, heard jest ‘bout... everything... until... today! In his thirty years plus o’ working as a Paid Assassin, he had heard, seen, or done ‘bout all ta be dod!
Even got so drunk, once , in Matamosa, Mexico he had... "let" a Mexican whore suck his male member... while she was being ‘impaled’ from... behind... by a... donkey.
What a night!
W.W. was ‘sore’ in his ‘personals’ for a week! That, he would admit, was wild! W.W. had been offered mucho dinero’ to do a... killin. But, what was a-bein offered... now... well, it were what a ‘sane’ man would call... crazy!
No matter, in the killin business, an "astute entrepreneur" never turned down... a... dolla. Sho’nuf. ‘N Dis Har... Har...was some big dollars. Ma’bees a mite... too... much? Passing the stack of bills toward the ‘renowned’ murderer, he person asked, "When can you leave?" "Tonite", was Walker’s response. "Be a takin... ‘n dat dar... bauble... ta seal ourn ‘greement’!"
His ‘smiling’ patron produced a bottle of "Good" store bought whiskey... filling a glass for... themselves... and filling W.W.’s beer mug to the... brim.
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"DEATH WAS...SMILING...AS HE WAITED IN THE SHADOWS.
HE WAS...ALMOST...AWAKE.
AS SLEEP STAMPEDED FROM HIS EYES, HIS HEAD BEGAN TO CLEAR JUST IN TIME TO BE FACED WITH TWO FIGURES, BOTH OF THEM' DURANGO I AND BOTH OF THEM WIELDING...DEATH!
HIS HEAD...CLEARED...
AS DEATH KISSED HIM "FULL" ON THE LIPS".
MY COMPANY, W.T.J. FILMS, SPECIALIZES IN WESTERN PROJECTS CONCERNING BLACK AMERICAN MEN WHO HELPED BUILD THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR NATION-THE AMERICAN WEST!
INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY, THE EXODUSTERS, IS THE FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF WALTER JACKSON (DURANGO), THE FIRST BLACK COWBOY IN GREAT FALLS, MONTANA.
TO DATE, NO ONE HAS ADDRESSED THE BLACK AMERICAN MALE, NOR THE NON-AMER- ICAN BLACK MALE AUDIENCE THROUGH WESTERN PROJECTS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THEM. YET, NOR AT THE EXCLUSION OF OTHERS WHO ENJOY WESTERN NOVELS! AND, MY PROJECTS ARE DESIGNED FOR MIDDLE-AGED AMERICA!
THE WORLD IS ACCUSTOMED TO THE 'RUGGEDLY-HANDSOME' WESTERNER ON HORSEBACK, WHO OVERCOMES COUNTLESS OBSTACLES, WHILE RIDING TO THE RESCUE WITH 'GUNS BLAZING'.
THE WORLD IS NOT ACCUSTOMED TO THE 'RUGGEDLY-HANDSOME' WESTERNER ON HORSEBACK, WHO OVERCOMES COUNTLESS OBSTACLES, WHILE RIDING TO THE RESCUE WITH 'GUNS BLAZING' BEING A BLACK, MIDDLE-AGED, COLLEGE EDUCATED, CATHOLIC!
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About the Author
NICK JONES IS AN HONORABLY DISCHARGED VIETNAM ERA VETERAN FROM SOUTH BEND. INDIANA.
JONES HOLDS UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES IN PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY.AND A GR- ADUATE DEGREE IN SOCIOLOGY.HE IS PURSUING HIS DOCTORATE IN SOCIOLOGY. JONES SERVES AS AN ADJUNCT FACULTY MEMBER AT SEVERAL INSTITUTIONS.HIS COMPANY, W.T.J. FILMS, SPECIALIZES IN WESTERN PROJECTS CONCERNING BLA- CK AMERICAN MEN WHO HELPED BUILD THE AMERICAN WEST! JONES WROTE, PRODUCED, DIRECTED AND STARRED IN THE GROUND BREAKING WESTERN BASS REEVES.U.S~ DEPUTY MARSHAL REEVES.AN EX-SLAVE.WAS AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK U.S. DEPUTY MARSHAL.HIRED IN BY THE "HANGING" JUDGE.
THE HAT, GUN, AND GUNBELT JONES WORE IN THE PROJECT ARE IN THE COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL COWBOY HALL OF FAME!