Back The Collector Series: Cowboy Kingdom By Charles Bird (R.I.P.)

Last Updated: March 20, 2023
Prologue Patrick O'Brian and his twin brothers Timothy and Calan were running the cattle ranch left to them by their father, Peter O'Brian. Patrick was the oldest at 27 years and his brothers had just turned 21. It wasn't a huge spread, as western ranches went, but it held the only all year spring for miles around. They were running approximately 2,200 head of cattle and had their own fields for hay. Like their father, the O'Brian boys were hard working and frugal, their mother had died giving birth to the twins and now it was just the three brothers. They had a couple of hired hands that had been with them so long, they were accounted family, as was Maria, who kept house for them and saw to it that they all were fed and properly cleaned and dressed. She was the only Mother the twins had ever known and all three of the boys loved her as their Mother. Times were not good, inflation was tearing the country apart and, whatever the national government did, it only made matters worse. The state government down in Phoenix had just about closed up shop and Patrick had met with County Sheriff Joe Montoya a few days earlier and was told that half the deputies had walked off the job because they had not been paid in two months. Patrick had armed their cowboys and he and his brothers now wore pistols and had a rifle in the saddle scabbard. Patrick was sure worse times were on their way.

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