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The Day Lottie McDade Was Shot
(2023)(Book 116 in the Tales of the Old West series)
A novel by Paul L Thompson
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson is back with his latest adventure!
An old rancher climbed on the train in Socorro, New Mexico. He sat by a well-dressed fellow who said, “This is my first time through New Mexico by train. Many years ago, when I went to California, it took over a month by stage. I have been only three days coming this far.”
“We have a long trip to Topeka, let me tell you about the problems they had building this railroad. It’s a mighty long story, but we have plenty of time. Name’s Hilton, Bryon Hilton from down at San Antonio. Fifteen or so miles south.
“It happened like this, as the railroad pushed over Raton Pass into New Mexico Territory and headed south, engineers and surveyors were hundreds of miles ahead laying out where the tracks would be laid. Surveyors were already twenty-five miles south of Albuquerque.
Weeks later, when engineers got to Albuquerque, there was a meeting of local people and those engineers and surveyors. Folks came by horseback and wagon from as far away as Socorro and beyond.
When the engineers told where surveyors were laying out for the tracks, there was an up roar. “No! Flat no! We have farmed and ranched that land for over a hundred years and you want to destroy everything our forefathers built! This we will not allow! We irrigate our fields from the river, you would wipe out our ditches.”
“Then the railroad has no choice but go to the governor. Progress with not be stopped by a few ranchers and farmers.”
Genre: Western
An old rancher climbed on the train in Socorro, New Mexico. He sat by a well-dressed fellow who said, “This is my first time through New Mexico by train. Many years ago, when I went to California, it took over a month by stage. I have been only three days coming this far.”
“We have a long trip to Topeka, let me tell you about the problems they had building this railroad. It’s a mighty long story, but we have plenty of time. Name’s Hilton, Bryon Hilton from down at San Antonio. Fifteen or so miles south.
“It happened like this, as the railroad pushed over Raton Pass into New Mexico Territory and headed south, engineers and surveyors were hundreds of miles ahead laying out where the tracks would be laid. Surveyors were already twenty-five miles south of Albuquerque.
Weeks later, when engineers got to Albuquerque, there was a meeting of local people and those engineers and surveyors. Folks came by horseback and wagon from as far away as Socorro and beyond.
When the engineers told where surveyors were laying out for the tracks, there was an up roar. “No! Flat no! We have farmed and ranched that land for over a hundred years and you want to destroy everything our forefathers built! This we will not allow! We irrigate our fields from the river, you would wipe out our ditches.”
“Then the railroad has no choice but go to the governor. Progress with not be stopped by a few ranchers and farmers.”
Genre: Western
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