Sundance in the Eve

The Sundance in the Eve.

Chapter I

It was the year of 1860, Abraham Lincoln was the President." He was quoted as saying.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand, for the house cannot stand half free and half slave."

Ulysses Grant had rejoined the Army in about late 1860. His wife Julia would bring their son Fred to the campground, but would not forget to bring her husband some food. She was a devoted wife and cared for her family very much.

It was a town of goodwill and prosperity. At lease that’s what the older folks would say. The outreaches of the civil had taken effect in the country, meanwhile in a small rural town of Sun Valley things took a more drastic measure. Pandemonium struck the town Back at the hills! A small time sheriff, new to the surroundings of chaos took in the time to measure what was going on, this over-indulger of the name, Poco Joe.

Everyone around knew who Poco Joe was. Not everyone agreed with his ways of the law. For instance: The Sherman’s giddy up gang.

They were bank robber’s that had not got caught yet. The town of Sun Valley grove wanted those men especially Sheriff Poco Joe. They had rode into town a couple months ago and they robbed the Sun Valley bank! They had killed the bank teller Harold an older man. A Christian family man. Now Poco Joe had a deputy named, Mac Houston, they knew him as Mac. His job was to help put the giddy-up gang away. Sheriff Poco Joe like to wrestle with beef jerky but on the side he liked to wrestle with a western woman named Sammie Joe Cooktre. He always told her a man cannot live on bread alone! Sammie Joe would laugh, and say, "oh honey don’t ya know"! They both loved the town of Sun Valley grove. They were a growing town, (back at the ranch) Deputy Mac Houston was a family man he had a wife and five children His wife was a school educator. Her name was Silvia Johnson she was a Christian woman. She loved Mac. She taught children in a one room school house. There names were Johnny, Eugene, Harry, Olga, Mildred. Silvia meant Deputy Mac in church at an Easter service. A y ear later they wedded, the Autumn of 1863 She wore her grandmother pearls. Now Grandma Anna Mae Labbs. She had the gift of gab. She made beautiful rugs by hand. She was a widower she always told Siliva she looked like her grandpa! Sammie Joe was a singer in a saloon she would sing a song called, Morning Due next to the piano man, she was a respected woman. She wore her hair up with ribbon and a long petty coat dressed tie-up boots. She owned a horse named, SE-Se and she loved Poco Joe. The town was a place for family. It was full of green trees and colorful flowers in the spring.