In this episode 166, we visit with George Arnold, author of the novel, Wyandotte Bound and the Christmas Short Story One Minute Past Christmas.

Bound, like many other strong words, finds its meaning in the perceptions of those it affects. To the Van Sheltons, it is positive and deep-rooted, defining their ties to a vast amount of land abundant in the timber, cattle, and silver that make them the wealthiest and the most powerful family in the town of Wyandotte and influential throughout the state of Nevada.

To J.D. Rohr, who has no money and few prospects, bound is a hopeful force, driving him to Wyandotte, where he assumes the identity of Jesse Bodine in a desperate attempt to live in obscurity, hiding from his reputation as one of the West’s most feared gunfighters.

We start the show with a reading from the opening chapter of the book, where a young man desires to prove his worth with his gun against J.D. Rohr, who wants no part of it but has little way out but to face the man. And before we’re through with the episode, we’re going to find out more about One Minute Past Christmas.