WC12: Looking to the Future

Wes Crowley has served a tour as a deputy US marshal at the convenience of Governor Lew Wallace in Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory.

The assignment was supposed to last for six months. But as things led to other things, it stretched to almost a year.

He misses the high plains of Amarillo Texas and his friends.

Not only his lifelong partner, Otis “Mac” McFadden and the other Texas Rangers in Company D, but his other friends as well:

• The old telegrapher, Sam Pencilman.
• Manuel Ortega, owner and operator of the Amarillo Inn.
• Ramón Sanchez, owner of Sanchez Livery Stable.

He’s longed to end his tenure as a deputy US marshal and head home for months. But can he leave behind Rose Padilla, the very special friend who owns Rosy’s Kiva Café in Santa Fe?

He has time to consider his options, but not much time. There’s a major skirmish building in the eastern side of the New Mexico Territory. Maybe after that he’ll have time to think about it and come to a decision.