The Wrinkled Hand Chase

"The Wrinkled Hand Chase11 is the story of Pvt. George Washington Dixon Joplin, dispatch rider for Brig. Gen Ranald Mackenzie's 4th Cavalry, and his assignment to deliver a history-altering message to General Mackenzie. The problem? Dix is at Fort Concho, Mackenzie is hot on the heels of the Comanches up in the Texas panhandle. Dix Joplin is a Fort Worth native and 1872 graduate of the Weatherford Masonic Institute (Weatherford College). A story within the story explains why a bright young man with an acceptance to the Harvard School of Medicine is now a private in the army During the trip north Dix encounters many obstacles, situations, and ironically, a Comanche that has been charged with a similar message for Kwana Parker. Together the two try to stop the Red River War or as the Comanche called it--The Wrinkled Hand Chase. The reader will meet characters such as Colonel Douglass, the wiley curmudgeon Joedean Overstreet, the surly Muley Jones, Lonzo the Harvard graduate, and Major Anderson. Along with Topusana, Kwana Parker, and Gen. Mackenzie. You'll also get to know Rainey Buck, the fastest horse on the plains and One-Sock, the bird-dog mule.

At sixty-One, the author is a husband of 36yrs. Father of three grown children and grandfather to 7 grandaughters. He was Professor of Chemisty at Weatherford College for thirty-One years and Director of the Weatherford College Forensic Laboratory. He is now retired. Ratheal is a part-time radio/TV/stage actor, and is currently employed part time with a local energy Company. In addition to this novel, he has published newpaper commentaries, magazine articles and several short stories. Ratheal loves camping, backpacking, hiking, river rafting and participates in archeological projects with both the Sierra Club and the Tarrant County Archeological Society. His Favorite Thought: We only have one Earth, with one environment, protect it at all cost lest we have but a lone tree left to hug.