John Hard - Hard Cold & Harder Men (The Hard Way Ranch)

Gold being found in his mountains was bad enough but in his own ranch valley it was something John Hard wanted no part of. Then he's forced to kill a miner while trying to run him out of the valley and things go from bad to worse very quickly. He and the other men have just came through the toughest winter since his coming to the valley. Now it looks like they'll have to deal with the outlaw brothers of the man he killed and their gang. Nothing ever seems to come easy at the Hard Way.

George was born in 1960 in Jefferson County Alabama. The fifth of nine children, eight boys and one girl.

The family was raised poor, but not poorly raised. At home, George was taught morals, ethics and respect. Reading, writing and arithmetic at school. Love, honor and obedience to God at church. He grew up on John Wayne movies, country music and the writings of Louis L' Amour, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.