Buck Johnson: Drive's End

By Wyatt McLaren

A dragon drive is a grueling and chancy undertaking – far tougher than trailing longhorns to Kansas City. So when Buck, Snort, and Skeeter approach the drive’s end at Skrintax, they’re looking for a big paycheck and a little fun. But the Terullian Karposh reappears and throws some obstacles in their path. Still, after some ingenious planning on bootleg vendor Quincy Poindexter’s part, it all works out in the end . . .

Think of "Star Trek," "The Rounders," and a little "Lonesome Dove" all shaken together and poured out, and you’ll have some idea of what you’re about to taste when you step into Buck Johnson’s life. It’s a wild mix of Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Western, and Science Fiction.

“Buck Johnson: Drive’s End” is the fourth Buck Johnson short story (approximately 5,000 words).

Be sure and check out the first story titled “Buck Johnson, Dragon Wrangler.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wyatt McLaren
• Release date: Apr 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301964314

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Buck Johnson: Drive’s End

Wyatt McLaren

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Spring Lake Books

Copyright 2013

All rights reserved. This book may not be used or reproduced in any manner—by any means or in any medium whatsoever—in part or in whole without written permission of the author (except, of course, small excerpts in reviews). Please respect intellectual-property rights and help authors protect what they've created.

This is a work of fiction. The characters are nothing more than inventions of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to real persons, places, or institutions on Earth is purely coincidental.

This is the fourth story in the Buck Johnson collection titled Dragon Wrangler Collection I.

Buck Johnson: Drive’s End

Skeeter Evans leaned back against his saddle, obviously comfortable and in a better mood than usual, with his too-long legs, still in chaps, stretched out in the Terullian dust in front of him. He held a tinny-looking cup of lukewarm ersatz coffee between his hands and expounded—at length—on his plans for his share of the money when they sold the dragon herd. These plans were, as always with Skeeter, uncomplicated and involved throughout a strong and often stated longing for some liquid refreshment. Buck Johnson and Snort Jones gave him only half an ear while staring into the illusory hologram-created fire. They had other things on their minds at the moment.

Besides, Buck and Snort had heard it all, over and over again, every day throughout the whole length of this