GUNSMOKE – Welcome To Dodge – Chapter 13

Mar 30, 2013 | Writing

CHAPTER THIRTEEN  We were back in Dodge. It was almost one o’clock. I had eight hours to figure out a solution to Jackson and Howard’s spat, or else a range war would break out, with all the cowboys on one side and all the ranchers on the other. I’d been a part...

GUNSMOKE – Welcome To Dodge – Chapter 12

Mar 29, 2013 | Writing

CHAPTER TWELVE “Ike Howard had no call to fence that pond there, Mr. Dillon. There’s enough water there for all the trail herds in the next ten years.” “It’s on his ranch, Chester,” I said. “He’s got a right to fence in his own range.” “A right, maybe,” said Chester,...

GUNSMOKE – Welcome To Dodge – Chapter 11

Mar 28, 2013 | Writing

CHAPTER ELEVEN “Well, Clay was shot, all right,” said Doc, “but from the meat of the wound and the quagginess of the blood, I’d say it happened sometime the day before yesterday – the day of the robbery. I’d say the cashier’s bullet didn’t go wild after all.” That...

GUNSMOKE – Welcome To Dodge – Chapter 10

Mar 27, 2013 | Writing

CHAPTER TEN The day was another scorcher. The drought out in the prairie was the worst I’d ever seen. Everybody in Dodge was a little edgy about a prairie fire, and I couldn’t blame them. All it would take was one fool with a cigar and the whole of Dodge could burn to...

GUNSMOKE – Welcome To Dodge – Chapter 9

Mar 26, 2013 | Writing

CHAPTER NINE I came into the office a little late the next morning. It had been a long night. There had been four more encounters like my one at the Texas Trail, and all of them had ended the same way. If this kept up I’d have to check the butt of my six-gun for...