CHARLIE-NOT-AFRAID-OF-HIS-HORSE

INTRODUCTION

Charlie-Not-Afraid-of-His-Horse

By

Lee Mick

This story is frontier fiction, based on actual events recorded in history. The period of history written about is from 1850-1919. Battles between the white man and the Indians during part of this period did, in fact, happen as depicted. Indian Chiefs such as Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Gall, were living people.

Certain acts of debauchery have been omitted out of respect for the sensitivity of the reader.

Their story begins on the plains of Kansas, west of Fort Riley. It continues through South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and ends up on a ranch in Southern Canada.

Charlie-Not-Afraid-of-His-Horse is a fictional character. A farm boy born into circumstances he had no control over. He did his best to compete and survive in a trying and difficult time. How Charlie managed to survive and succeed is as insightful as it is interesting.

All of the happenings, no matter how savage have been duly recorded in the history of the Indian Wars.

Lee Mick was born in 1930 in a small Kansas town. In his youth, Mr. Mick spent the summers of 1947 and 1948 living on the Cheyenne-Sioux Indian Reservation at Whitlock’s Crossing, S.D.

He served in the U.S. Navy from 1950-1954 in the Mariana Islands. During that time he developed the first experimental cattle ranch in the Marianas for the U.S. Navy. He later returned as a civilian to develop another 7,000 acre privately owned ranch on the Island of Tinian. Much of his adult life has been spent on islands in the Pacific. Mr. Mick and his wife, Deanna, are both pilots and owned and operated the smallest commercial airline at an international airport on the Northern Marianas Island of Saipan.

When they were not in the Pacific, he and his wife were licensed owners and trainers of thoroughbred racehorses in thirteen states and Canada. They now maintain a permanent residence in Kansas.