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Walks Without a Soul (A Geo W. Proctor Western Classic Book 2)

Walks Without a Soul (A Geo W. Proctor Western Classic Book 2)

Geo W. Proctor
5/5 ( ratings)
In a cabin by the Brazos, a black man kneels, holding the body of his infant daughter in his arms. After the burying, after the mourning, Nate Wagoner will do what he must do. Riding bareback on a mule, hardened to the taunts and indignation of his neighbors, he will set out to hunt down the Comanches who killed his child and rode off with his wife and two elder daughters.
It is a journey that will take him through a land blazing with hatred – between the Anglos and the Mexicans, Comanches and Kiowas. To those who cross his path, he will become known as Walks Without a Soul, and his legend as a hunter and fighter will spread from the Staked Plains to the Arkanasas River. But it is in the dust, blood and fury of the trail ahead that Nate will discover who he really is and where he really stands – as a husband, a father and a man.

A native Texan born in 1946 and the oldest of five children, George Proctor spent his preschool years traveling the thoroughbred horse racing circuit across the United States with his parents . His family bought a horse training and breeding farm near the East Texas town of Gilmer in the early 1950s. He attended public school in Gilmer, Texas, where he was weaned on TV, comics, paperbacks, and Homer.
“I guess it was in the third grade that I first picked up the Iliad and Odyssey. I must have read them twice every year for five years after that,” George said in an early newspaper interview done in 1978.
The seeds were planted early for becoming a published writer and artist. George saw countless films and read anything he could find growing up and became hooked on the lore of the Old West’s action and adventure and history. His Uncle Jack took George along on the rodeo circuit during many seasons when George absorbed more history and lore of the West.
Besides the usual farm duties and teen-age employment, Proctor worked on the racetrack with his father through the summers. At age fifteen, he earned an assistant trainer license while working at Detroit Race Course in Detroit, Michigan. He held either an assistant’s or stable foreman license until age twenty-two when he graduated from Texas Technological College majoring in journalism and political science with a minor in government.
After college, George worked briefly at KLBK-TV station, a CBS affiliate out of Lubbock, Texas. He served as floor man, soundman, lighting technician, cameraman, commercial talent, advertising copywriter. George began to mentally re-visit “story” ideas that he had in mind since his early years. He loved to read/see a good story and began to think he could write stories based on ideas he’d had starting from his earliest school years.
The writing and art “plant” continued to grow as George spent five years as a newspaper reporter for the Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, and started to submit short works and ideas to publishers. He worked two+ years on the newspaper’s general assignment desk, and three+ years as the Dallas County Courthouse reporter.
Then he began a career as a fulltime freelance writer, editor, artist in 1974. But although George pursued psychological motivations and probed power structures in more serious works, he refused to characterize himself as a “serious” writer and admitted a weakness for the old shoot-em-up-at-the-mountain-and-galactic-pass idea.
“I’m still pretty much an adventure writer,” George told a large convention audience in 1985. “I like action in my stuff.”
George enjoyed action and adventure throughout his life as he delved into numerous avenues in developing ideas, storylines, and characters.
Pages
230
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Piccadilly Publishing
Release
October 15, 2018

Walks Without a Soul (A Geo W. Proctor Western Classic Book 2)

Geo W. Proctor
5/5 ( ratings)
In a cabin by the Brazos, a black man kneels, holding the body of his infant daughter in his arms. After the burying, after the mourning, Nate Wagoner will do what he must do. Riding bareback on a mule, hardened to the taunts and indignation of his neighbors, he will set out to hunt down the Comanches who killed his child and rode off with his wife and two elder daughters.
It is a journey that will take him through a land blazing with hatred – between the Anglos and the Mexicans, Comanches and Kiowas. To those who cross his path, he will become known as Walks Without a Soul, and his legend as a hunter and fighter will spread from the Staked Plains to the Arkanasas River. But it is in the dust, blood and fury of the trail ahead that Nate will discover who he really is and where he really stands – as a husband, a father and a man.

A native Texan born in 1946 and the oldest of five children, George Proctor spent his preschool years traveling the thoroughbred horse racing circuit across the United States with his parents . His family bought a horse training and breeding farm near the East Texas town of Gilmer in the early 1950s. He attended public school in Gilmer, Texas, where he was weaned on TV, comics, paperbacks, and Homer.
“I guess it was in the third grade that I first picked up the Iliad and Odyssey. I must have read them twice every year for five years after that,” George said in an early newspaper interview done in 1978.
The seeds were planted early for becoming a published writer and artist. George saw countless films and read anything he could find growing up and became hooked on the lore of the Old West’s action and adventure and history. His Uncle Jack took George along on the rodeo circuit during many seasons when George absorbed more history and lore of the West.
Besides the usual farm duties and teen-age employment, Proctor worked on the racetrack with his father through the summers. At age fifteen, he earned an assistant trainer license while working at Detroit Race Course in Detroit, Michigan. He held either an assistant’s or stable foreman license until age twenty-two when he graduated from Texas Technological College majoring in journalism and political science with a minor in government.
After college, George worked briefly at KLBK-TV station, a CBS affiliate out of Lubbock, Texas. He served as floor man, soundman, lighting technician, cameraman, commercial talent, advertising copywriter. George began to mentally re-visit “story” ideas that he had in mind since his early years. He loved to read/see a good story and began to think he could write stories based on ideas he’d had starting from his earliest school years.
The writing and art “plant” continued to grow as George spent five years as a newspaper reporter for the Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, and started to submit short works and ideas to publishers. He worked two+ years on the newspaper’s general assignment desk, and three+ years as the Dallas County Courthouse reporter.
Then he began a career as a fulltime freelance writer, editor, artist in 1974. But although George pursued psychological motivations and probed power structures in more serious works, he refused to characterize himself as a “serious” writer and admitted a weakness for the old shoot-em-up-at-the-mountain-and-galactic-pass idea.
“I’m still pretty much an adventure writer,” George told a large convention audience in 1985. “I like action in my stuff.”
George enjoyed action and adventure throughout his life as he delved into numerous avenues in developing ideas, storylines, and characters.
Pages
230
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Piccadilly Publishing
Release
October 15, 2018

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