Author's Note

I always knew I was goin' to die...I just never expected it to be like this. Blazin' hot desert, far from home, alone, ambushed, shot in the back an' left for dead- no, I'd never imagined it to be like this.

Problem was...instead of dyin' right off, I got mad. A vicious, righteous, stuck in your craw, won't rest 'til justice is done kind of mad.

Pa would say 'Catch a bear by his nose, you get mauled. Catch a Rivers'...that's where things get messy'.