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I'm Bernard Schaefer, author of A Man Called Meadows.

About the Author
BORN IN SANDUSKY, OHIO AND GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL IN 1952 IN BERLIN HEIGHTS, OHIO. I HAVE TWO SISTERS, ALICE AND DOROTHY. ALICE LIVES IN SANDUSKY, AND DOROTHY LIVES IN COLUMBUS, OHIO. MARRIED MARTHA JANE PEMBERTON IN 1958 AND WE HAVE TWO SONS. STEVE WHO LIVES IN FT MYERS FLORDIA AND NATHAN WHO LIVES IN SEBRING, OHIO. WE ALSO HAVE 6 GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT GRANDCHILD. WE PRESENTLY LIVE IN SEBRING, OHIO WHERE WE HAVE LIVED SINCE 1971. I RETIRED FROM GM LORDSTOWN, OHIO AND I ENJOY WORKING WITH WOOD, AND I LIKE TO WORK IN THE YARD AND I REALLY ENJOY FISHING.

(ADD THIS SOMEWHERE) I SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES SOON AFTER GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND SPENT TWO YEARS IN GERMANY

About my latest book, A Man Called Meadows

THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A TALL RUGGEDLY HANDSOME YOUNG COW POKE THAT GREW UP ON A DIRT POOR FARM IN THE LATE 1800'S. HIS DAD REALIZED YOU COULD SUCCEED WITH POWER OR MONEY. THERE WASN'T ANY CHANCE OF HIS SON HAVING MONEY SO TO EVEN ALL THE PLAYING FIELD THAT HIS SON WOULD ENCOUNTER HE PUT A GUN IN HIS HAND FOR POWER. FROM THE TIME MEADOWS WAS 8 YEARS OLD HE WOULD PRACTICE THE FAST DRAW. DAY'S WOULD LEAD TO WEEKS, AND WEEKS TO YEARS HE PRACTICED THE FAST DRAW UNTIL THAT PEARL HANDLED COLT 45 THAT SWUNG FROM THE HIPS OF A TALL, THIN RUGGEDLY HANDSOME LOOKING YOUNG MAN WITH PIERCING GRAY EYES WOULD BE QUITE A SIGHT TO SEE.

HE NEVER SOUGHT TO BE KNOWN AS A GUN FIGHTER, BUT WHEN YOUR WORKING CATTLE DRIVES FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS THERE ARE A LOT OF TOWNS WHERE REPUTATIONS CAN BUILD OVER NIGHT. AS MEADOWS TRAVELED THESE TOWNS THERE WOULD BE ENOUGH OCCASIONS WHERE MEADOWS WOULD BE PUT TO THE TEST. HE LIVED AT A TIME WHEN NAMES LIKE WYATT EARP, DOC HOLLIDAY, AND WILD BILL HICKOCK WERE LIVING LEGENDS IN EVERY TRAIL CITY IN THE WEST. BUT TO A MAN, ALL OF THOSE THAT SAY ANY OF THEM DRAW, WHEN THEY SAW MEADOWS IN ACTION, TO A MAN, AND I MEAN EVERY MAN ALL DECLARED THAT MEADOWS WAS FASTER THAN ALL OF THEM. THEN THERE WAS CARMON. SHE WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, SENSUOUS YOUNG MEXICAN LADY THAT COULD STIR THE HEART OF ANY MAN THE PROBLEM WAS, SHE ONLY HAD EYES FOR ONE MAN. A MAN CALLED MEADOWS. SO WHAT WAS IT ON THE NIGHT THAT THIS TALL GOOD LOOKING RATHER QUIET COWPOKE WALKED INTO THIS LITTLE MEXICAN CANTINA IN ODEYSSA, TEXAS AND THEY BOTH LAID EYES ON EACH OTHER. WAS IT FATE, DIVINE INTERVENTION, LUCK, OR WAS IT WRITTEN IN THE