"Sammy"
by Rivers Walker
Copyright ©2000
ISBN: 0-87714-621-7 eBook edition
ISBN: 0-87714-762-0 PB edition
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This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
THE AUTHOR
Rivers Walker is a native Texan, who attended both the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, majoring in Business. Before embarking upon his professional career, he served in the United States Air Force.
His Cadet Class, from which he graduated in 1943, included extensive ground school training in engineering, aeronautical engineering and navigation. His service record was quite notable and was highlighted by a number of decorations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Medal with seven Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Good Conduct Medal. Among his many foreign citations was the Royal Order of the Flying Cloud from the Republic of China. He was honorably discharged with the rank of Captain at the conclusion of World War II.
After the war Rivers had a very successful career developing real estate: building houses, developing raw land, general contracting, and all the other ingredients that go into those activities.
Then another career presented itself: He became a stockbroker. He started selling stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and was a total security analyst. He was permitted to sell securities on the New York Stock Exchange, The American Exchange, the NASD, and all the other related securities houses.
In early 1973 Rivers moved to Houston and formed a company with an architect, who was designing office buildings. Immediately, these two men realized that each possessed talents needed by the other, that a profitable partnership could result from this fortunate meeting. The firm successfully constructed and developed almost one-half billion dollars worth of real estate in Texas, Louisiana, and other sections of the country, for their own account as well as the accounts of others. In his lifetime Mr. Walker has initiated upwards to three-quarters of one billion dollars worth of construction and development.
Recently the Walkers returned to their hometown, Houston, Texas, where he is now writing novels full time. With such an eventful, exciting life behind him, Rivers can draw on actual experiences to make his characters come alive in his manuscripts. Throughout his life he was known as a great storyteller, and now his writing techniques allow him to put thrilling stories into print. His eventful life has given him the ammunition for drama.
THE BOOK
Sammy is a bittersweet novel about the western frontier shortly after the Civil War. Sammy Blanchard, a crusty Texas Ranger, fell in love with a little whore, Molly Malone. Molly became pregnant; she was sick and impoverished, with no earthly idea what the next moment would bring. The baby wasn't Sammy's; he had never slept with Molly; he came to her rescue because of his love for her. When the baby boy was born, Sammy prevailed on Molly to let him adopt the infant and give him his own name. Sammy named the child Nicholas Blanchard. Molly told Sammy, "I ain't gonna whore no more, Sammy. I've got a right good singin' voice, and I'm gonna seek my fortune singin' and dancin' for a livin'. But promise me you'll never let little Nick know who his mama is, and what she did for a livin'."
Molly wound up in a West Texas town called Shoot Out and went to work in a saloon singing in a follies. She was a howling success, and her popularity grew to the extent she was able to buy the saloon. She named it Molly Malone's Bird Cage Saloon and Naughty Show. Molly became fabulously wealthy.
With Molly's financial help Sammy was able to give Nick the best of everything--schools, clothes, advantages. Nicholas Blanchard was extremely bright, very athletic, tall, handsome, and he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School. He was hired by the President of the United States to set up the federal court system in the west.
Sammy had befriended a tribe of Indians called the Wakitas. Their chief, Wild Fire, had two children, LittleBoy and Dawn. Both children were gifted. Through many fortunate circumstances, Sammy, Nick, and the Wakitas were thrown together in Shoot Out, Texas. Nick met his mother, Molly, in a tearful but joyful reunion. Nick had never been denied anything in his life, and he was shocked beyond belief when he fell in love with Dawn, a beautiful Indian maiden, and her father, Wild Fire, disapproved, because he felt Nick wasn't good enough for his daughter. Sammy settled a feud between two powerful land barons, who hired gunslingers for security, and each lost a child in the ensuing fights. Sammy's activities in his job as a Texas Ranger were masterful, and he had many humorous, as well as tearful, adventures.
Sammy and Molly were to be married, but Molly was kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang of killers led by Ace Hickman, a notorious outlaw, and his two brothers. When word of Molly's disappearance got out, the entire territory joined in the search for her return. The rescue was dramatic and brought about goodwill between the Indians and whites in Shoot Out.
The President of the United States invited Sammy and Molly, and the governor of Texas and his wife to the White House for a real shoot-'em-up, hard drinkin', Texas barbecue on the White House lawn.
Another work of fiction by Rivers Walker about the old west.
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