This is a life story, not of a gunfighter, but of a man born in the times of the Old West, grown up on a ranch, working his butt off, went to war to protect his friend (a repetitive theme not garnered from any other source including Legends of the Fall) failed in doing so and grieving after the war to end all wars, (drawn from the experience of my Uncle Granville Fuqua who served in the occupying force after WWI in Germany) stayed in Europe for a while, long enough to fall in love with his wife, and then came home to prosper doing what he knew how to do. He became the penultimate self-sufficient man, dealt with economic hard times, dealt with the bigotry of his era, dealt with corrupt law enforcement, dealt life. He helped raise kids, good kids, some of his own, some of those he called his own no matter their parentage, and helped create a new generation of war fighters, and true men and women of character.