Here is a rhyme I wrote some years ago and forgot about until I found it last night. It's an overview of my "Partners" novel which you can get my clicking on the cover off to the right and down or by visiting my author page at  https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B004V9WZVI

Or failing that, send me a message and I can supply from the few copies I have in my stock.

A bit of a "misrepresentation" on the cover; that's a Henry .44 rimfire which does not appear anywhere in the story but then I didn't create the cover. There are several weapons in the story just not that one. A Henry does appear in some of my later stories.

“Partners” overview

By D.M. McGowan

 

He was an educated man, Thomas Brash by name

Raised for the British Army to follow his father’s fame

Born in Upper Canada, the eastern Loyalist land

Then sent across the sea, military school in England

 

He had served in several stations, Europe, Africa and such

But found the land of Hind demanded just too much.

He left the British Army returned to his Kingston home

Taught school, married and farmed and vowed no more to roam

 

But fate stepped in to change the future he had planned,

Cholera took the family; he burned the house, left the land.

He wandered to the west perhaps thinking life was done

More than thirty years of effort and everything was gone.

 

But out there on the plains he found someone he could help

Perhaps some master plan? He’d play the cards he was dealt.

Two wandering strangers as different as they could be

Can each survive the other’s thoughts and company?

 

Renegades, Blackfoot and psychopaths they face

The elements alone are hard on the human race

Indian wars and killers, all the across the west

Such is their future where simple living is a test.

 

From different places and different teachings

Perhaps these two are over reaching

But it takes bold people to build a land

And different ideas build one that stands