The Land of Banjo

Richard Fletcher

Apr 2017 · Page Publishing Inc

About this ebook

A Western tale of a greedy land baron who, after the war, tries to force small ranch owners to sell their ranches and cattle to him at below market prices when land and cattle prices are depressed right after the Civil War. Clint, an officer in the Union army, returns from the war and finds out about the land baron’s tactics. He organizes a six-hundred-mile cattle drive to help the ranchers survive. The drive goes from northern Texas to Cheyenne, Wyoming. The land baron sends men after the drive to stop it. When the drive is successful, the baron’s men steal the money from the sale of the cattle. The baron continues to play dirty tricks on Clint’s father to get him to sell the ranch. In the end, the baron is caught in one of his dirty tricks and pays the price.

About the author

 Richard Fletcher was born on June 10, 1927, in Jersey City, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan Area. He attended St. Michael’s Catholic Schools up until the tenth grade. In the beginning of May 1945, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps. He was in the First Marine Division stationed in Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California, when the war ended. He was sent to Pearl Harbor, where he was an auditor. After the war, he attended college then moved to Santa Ana, California. He went to work for a food company called Hunt Foods and worked for them for thirty-seven years and retired in 1985. He met his wife, Marilyn, in 1948, and after a courtship, he married her. He was married to her for sixty-four years. When he retired, he took up parachuting then took up flying and received his pilot’s license. After twelve years, his heart gave him trouble, and he lost his medical for flying, so he took up writing as a hobby. He has written twenty-three stories and has had eight published. He continues to write as a hobby. He lost his wife to cancer, but he has three children to keep him company.