Jeremiah Maynard, a Confederate veteran haunted by the carnage of the war and his own survival, continues to drift aimlessly westward but no matter how far he gets he can�t outdistance his nightmares of the war. He is searching for purpose and a new start. He stops off in a small frontier town of Shamrock in Wyoming, and finds himself elected Sheriff charged with maintaining the peace in a land that respects only the law out of the barrel of a gun. He struggles to become normal again and faces many challenges. He is an outsider keeping the locals safe. In time, to his surprise, he settles in and finds love and the peace he is looking for.
Shamrock was fun to write. I have been to Wyoming, and like my hero, rode over the same landscape. Of course I had no outlaws or hostile Indians to contend with, but I'm OK with that. At the same time writing a western had its own challenges. I tried to keep the story factual and real while sitting in a comfortable swivel chair, typing away on my keyboard, with the TV newscast faintly in the background, the phone ringing and the dryer announcing that the wash was done, hardly something you can finds in a frontier life style.
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