Time Travel & Cowboys

Great combination — why not?

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Cowboy Out of Time

Volume 1 in the series, “Rose Roamer, Time Traveler”

By Jeff Salter

I think it’s been a while since I reminded y’all about my first time travel novel, published by Clean Reads back in April last year.

I grew up watching Westerns on TV and in movies… and my play time of many years was dominated by riding a stick horse and shooting a cap gun (that didn’t actually shoot caps anymore, since it was broken). But, heck, back then it was more about imagination than literal horses, hardware, or costuming.

Anyway, I guess I never lost my love of westerns… and the lean, strong, solitary cowboys who populated them. Whether they were marshals like Matt Dillon, bounty hunters like Josh Randall, riflemen like Lucas McCain, gamblers like Bret Maverick, or colorful legends like Wyatt Earp or Bat Masterson — they were my heroes. Heck, even the ranch hands who worked in the Big Valley or the High Chaparal seemed to have a life that caused me envy.

Well, all that’s merely to say that it was only natural for me to eventually write a cowboy hero who’s given an important mission. But I wanted that hero — Shiloh Hunter “Hunt” Weston — to have a little extra obstacle in the novel’s plot. So I sent him forward 100 years to 1985. And there, he meets my heroine, Rose Roamer.

“This Hunt Weston character claims when he went to sleep last night, it was 1885 — a hundred years ago. No ID, no proof of his claims — unless you count the authentic vintage clothing, that original Colt Peacemaker and rugged Bowie knife strapped to his hip… plus 32 silver dollars, all minted before 1885. And the only documentation he possesses is a torn half of a playing card… with my name, this town and county, and the date October 6 — two days from now.”

Vol. 1 in the series: Rose Roamer, Time Traveler. Published by Clean Reads in 2019.

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[JLS # 473]

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