Gunston Creek Chronicles - Lawman - Book 1

1905 - Gunston Creek, Colorado; pop 297, its headcount swelling during cattle round-up, is a normally quiet, peaceful town, except during round-up, then Dios mio, guard your daughters!Peace is why folks come to Gunston Creek. The town, rising up after the slaughter of the Ute tribe by the military in the middle of the 19th century, attracts, as one young prostitute claims; "the unwanted, the misfits, the lost, the lonely, other people's throwaways." It's also said about the town,...
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1905 - Gunston Creek, Colorado; pop 297, its headcount swelling during cattle round-up, is a normally quiet, peaceful town, except during round-up, then Dios mio, guard your daughters!Peace is why folks come to Gunston Creek. The town, rising up after the slaughter of the Ute tribe by the military in the middle of the 19th century, attracts, as one young prostitute claims; "the unwanted, the misfits, the lost, the lonely, other people's throwaways." It's also said about the town, "People here, take a person at face value until they get wronged in some way. Then everyone goes toe-to-toe with whoever might get the idea to push someone around." Folks in Gunston Creek, hold true to western scripture of 'love and help your neighbor.'In early June, a former lawman steps off the train at the Gunston Creek rail spur. Sent for by Roosevelt County Sheriff, Elmer Hantz, T.D. McCall, describes how he was "dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century," and claims he isn't "a modern man." Sheriff Hantz isn't looking for a modern lawman, but one from the past to help guide the people of Gunston Creek into the future. As Hantz says, "This way, the journey won't be so painful."But? from out of the past of the people of Gunston Creek, is a storm headed their way. And, like a tornado, there's no getting out of its way!