Shorty Thompson - Foreword



	Shorty Thompson Saddle up and ride the same wild lonesome trails as U S Marshal Shorty Thompson did in the 1870’s thru 1890’s. Short of stature but with a heart as big as the Southwestern sky, Marshal Thompson traveled throughout the territories of late nineteenth century New Mexico and Arizona during the height of America’s expansion westwards. From rough and tumble gold and silver mining country to savage wide open high plains, the Marshal pursued outlaws and rustlers, extending the rule of law to the new territories. From Wyoming to California he traveled by horseback and stagecoach to end the careers of ruthless gold and silver stealing, cattle rustling, land grabbing thieves and murderers. Feel the dry heat of hot desert floors and the bitter cold of snow-covered mountain passes, as he gets shot, survives and goes after the lawless man! Though the novels are written about things that happened over one hundred and twenty years ago, many of the old towns can be visited today. The names of towns in the novels are as they were back in the nineteenth century. Many of them are in ruins, destroyed, but others still survive as haunting ghost towns. Even fewer grew and prospered into our modern cities of today. With the passage of time some of the names might have changed, but western history lives on to be revisited in the Shorty Thompson U S Marshal series.