A Wild West Texas Christmas Tale
By Ron Doring – December, 2018 – For the Grand Children.Chapter I - "Way Back in Eighteen Ought and Something" - Grandpa Ben's Tyler's three grandchildren, two girls and a boy, ages 4 through 9 years of age, were so excited. They were ready to hear more of Grandpa Ben's adventures of the Wild West, as told by their Grandfather from his younger days, when he was a sure 'nuff, genuine, “Wild West Cowboy”, helping to drive cattle on the storied cattle trails, that ran from South Texas up into the heartland of the United States. Susie age ten, was the eldest granddaughter. Andrew the grandson, was eight years old, and he was the middle child. Little Sadie, who was only four and a half years old, was the youngest of the three. And she always made it very clear to anyone who asked, that she was now a whole, “four and a half years old!” So as that evening, as they all sat around the fireplace, beside the Christmas tree, the chor