volume one IN THE D U D L E Y C L A R K - Ohio Vine Tours

“SERGEANT WESTON!”
“Suh!”
“Scout up ahead for a safe passage to the river!”
“Yessuh!”
“And don’t take any chances with them Pawnee.”
“Nosuh!”
Roy, mounted on his spirited coal-black steed, Presto, sprints
off at a fast gallop ahead of the advancing Seventh Calvary,
Company C. Behind him, he leaves a wagon train packed
with a golden-hearted whore; a drunken lawyer; two disputing
suitors for the hand of the Battalion Commander’s redheaded,
freckled-faced, blue-eyed daughter; a man with a bad head cold;
a maudlin Army captain about to retire; an alcoholic, Irish
doctor; an Indian Agent who has secretly been selling guns to
the Indians; a woman who adores Roy, but who he must ignore
for the sake of regimental morale; a massive Master Sergeant
who lusts to kill Roy, but who will ultimately become his friend;
a small boy Roy rescued from an Indian raid, who loves him like
a father; a toothless, tetchy old cook; a beautiful, fine lady from
Virginia who cannot abide the sight of the whore; a sweet young
girl, whose husband has been scalped, and who is about to have
a baby; a tall, angular, well-dressed gambler from Louisiana,
who carries a grudge against Roy—who caught him cheating
at cards—as well as a brace of nickel-plated derringers he
longs to use against his perceived foe; a convict, handsome and
dashing even in chains, who claims he is innocent of the charge
of murder, that the man he killed had killed his family; the
Sheriff who is conveying him to trial, but whose heart is not in
his job because he suspects his prisoner to be innocent; the Judge
who will try the case, who is himself on the payroll of a corrupt
ROY ROGERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY 2