Snaked!!!

By Robert Norris

In 1880, Jack Givens is seventeen and living happily on his family's ranch insouthwest Texas when a family tragedy involving rattlesnakes starts him down apath that will eventually make him one of the most famous (and reluctant)gunfighters in the country. Using his wits as well as his ability with a gun, Jack defends himself from the gunfighters who, looking to enhance their ownreputations, come to challenge him.
When the gunfighters who target Jack start to threaten his family, he isforced to leave home. While trying to avoid other gunfighters and playingpoker to support himself, he travels by horseback, stage coach, steamboat, andtrain to New Orleans, St. Louis, Denver, and San Francisco, with a lot ofstops, poker sessions, gunfights, interesting (and sometimes humorous)characters along the way. He also has to contend with misleading newspaperreports which, in order to sell more newspapers, present him to the world as avicious killer.
However, this book is much more than a Western about a reluctant gunfighter.It is also a family saga as well as a coming-of-age story, told with warmthand humor. It describes how the influences of Jack's father, the family ranchhands, and even his friends inadvertently push him down the path to becoming agunfighter. It also shows how these same influences, along with some guidancefrom his mother, help him, at least for awhile, to survive this hellishexistence.
The central question, of course, is whether or not Jack will survive.This, along with the way in which he attempts to end his life as a gunfighterso that he can return to his family, provides for some surprises near the endof the book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980448922
• ISBN13: 9781980448921
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"