Pass Me a Ten Gallon Hat
This morning I discovered that I’m the featured character in a recently published cowboy novel: “The Sheriff’s Double – A Clint Williams Western.” I stumbled across it on WorldCat and then looked up the synopsis on the publisher’s website.
“Becoming sheriff of a small town in the 1840’s was just the beginning for Clint Williams. He was soon embroiled in an attempted murder and a journey to free a friend’s slave family.”
Apparently I’m a former private in the Union Army who becomes the sherrif of a town named Bernalillo, and then works to uphold justice and undermine slavery, reuniting families along the way. Sounds pretty good to me.
I guess I never fully realized the “cowboy central protagonist” potential of my name until this moment. Maybe I should start wearing chaps to work, and salting my conversations with the occasional “yup,” “reckon,” and “pilgrim.”
The author, Gerald J. Berry, has written two other books, both set in a post-apocalyptic future, but it doesn’t look like I have a part in those.
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2. Clint wrote:
Hahaha… that’s awesome Tyler! Thanks for that. In my defense I can only say, do not be deceived: not everything is as it seems…
3. Steve Ranney wrote:
cool, maybe if born in the 19th Centur you would have been a gun slinging crusader for justice — it sounds like you have good values in that persona so that is a good thing
4. Clint wrote:
Yup. I reckon I coulda just as easy been a rustler, or a bandit, or somethin’ worse-like. So an honest lawman ain’t bad at all.
5. Steve Ranney wrote:
I hope your steely blue eyes were staring off to the horizon as you made that remark (out of the corner of your mouth) as the heat rising from the plain creates a shimmering pattern against the cactai
6. Kari Beaudry Denison wrote:
you know, my kids are watching Toy Story 2 right now…you actually look just like Woody!!
9. John Kontonasakis wrote:
lol
10. Anne Denniston wrote:
*can’t help but giggle*
11. Matthew Dela Vega wrote:
Do you need a deputy?
Deputy Dela Vega has a nice ring to it.
12. Matthew Dela Vega wrote:
(that’s 2 points scategories!)
1. Tyler Comstock wrote:
I always knew you were a gunslinger at heart. i can just see you twirlin’ your six shooter, tippin’ your hat, and correcting everyone’s grammar whilst you proceed to win at EVERYTHING.
That being said, i can surly see you as a protagonist in a post apocalyptic future. Leading an uprising against a horde of zombies, werewolves, vampires, and/or dragons. besides, with your winning streak, the Thunderdome should be a breeze. all you have to do is sit back, have a casual conversation with your opponent, act like your loosing, all the while you have perfectly laid it out so that after all seems lost for you, you actually win because you spent all your time buying those stupid CIV cards.
Honestly Clint, you are a multi genre’d man. you will do nicely anywhere from sci-fi to fantasy..