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PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE: GOLD
CHAPTER TWO: GREEN FROG THAT JUMPS
CHAPTER THREE: DEMON DRINK AND RICHES
CHAPTER FOUR: RESCUE AND ESCAPE
CHAPTER FIVE: WAR
CHAPTER SIX: FEDERAL SERVICE
CHAPTER SEVEN: INTO INDIAN TERRITORY
CHAPTER EIGHT: AN OFFICER
CHAPTER NINE: RETIRED WITH WOUNDS
CHAPTER TEN: HOMECOMING TO HUNT A KILLER
CHAPTER ELEVEN: SHEEPMAN
CHAPTER TWELVE: REPAIRING SMALL AND LOST CANYON
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ATTEMPTED MURDER
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: A GUNFIGHT AND SECOND FAMILY
In life there are many moments that confront us that looking back do turn out to be turning points. At these times we make choices. Which of these choices we take determines our future. We live our choices. If we had made different choices our lives would not have been the lived as we did. The young seldom view life this way. They just plow ahead taking much too often the easier alternative and are often later unhappy about it. Sometimes, they take the choice friends or parents or grandparents want them to take, not the one they want. If they do this someone else decides their life. In former-friends and family friction cases some even take the opposite choice and live a life of spite. How else can we understand the lives of children that are so different than their friends or family; this difference can be for better or worse?
Often we have heard it said, "Play the cards you're dealt," as if life were a card game, a hand of poker. Consider the cards dealt and choices made by Collin Dymond, all diamonds in the card game of life if you like, a young Missourian off to seek gold, a family man, a drunk, a Civil War soldier promoted from private to Captain for bravery, avenging hunter of a friend’s murderer, and suitor. You can decide if Collin makes good choices or not. We both agree, don’t we, that you will make better choices when your cards are dealt.
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“Good Pa.”
In an hour of walking Cain and Able a hundred yard behind the last wagon the group of Indians disappeared off the skyline. With a wave of his hat Hansel kicked Cain in the ribs to begin trotting past. Three more times the Dymonds spotted groups of Indians riding off at a distance and moved in closer to the next or last passed wagon train for protection, but no attacks came.
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