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    Western Air
    Western Air
    Western Air
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    Western Air

    By Burr Cook

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    This Novelette is a fictional western romance and is full of adventure. It is a story in which a young man returns from World War I after being poison gassed in a trench in France. He falls in love with a nurse who cares for him in a hospital for veterans in New York. He eventually moves to Arizona for his health and finds that he can breathe much better. He gets well on a ranch where he works herding sheep.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBurr Cook
    Release dateFeb 6, 2015
    ISBN9781310413957
    Western Air
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    Burr Cook

    Burr lives in Syracuse, New York, has 4 children, several grandchildren and says that Great grandchildren are arriving at an alarming rate. Burr is a history buff and works hard on his family's genealogy and has a web site at www.burrcook.com which is partially biographical. He may be contacted through this site. He has traveled extensively throughout the US, Europe and Asia by air, rail and highway. Burr has enjoyed a 50 year career in information technology, has owned a worldwide seminar business and a company called “Cyburrsource” providing the public with internet connections. He is now semi retired and enjoys a life as a freelance writer of action/adventure/romance stories primarily in a historical western setting.

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      Western Air - Burr Cook

      Western Air

      Copyright 2015 Burr Cook

      Published by Burr Cook at Smashwords

      Second Edition

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 War and Sickness

      Chapter 2 Going Home

      Chapter 3 Going West

      Chapter 4 Herding Sheep

      Chapter 5 A Vacation and a Dance

      Chapter 6 All’s Well That Ends Well

      About The Author

      Books by Burr Cook

      Chapter 1 War and Sickness

      Tim McAlister was seated in a comfortable deck chair on board a British transport somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic. He wasn’t sure of the date, it didn’t matter anyway. He knew that it was early in the year 1919 and he had just spent more than two months in a military hospital in London. He had been transferred there from a facility in France which was not equipped to handle anywhere near the number of sick that were sent there. It was way overcrowded. He was one of many soldiers suffering from damaged lungs caused by poison gas attacks in the French trenches. In the British hospital he had been treated for the most part by American doctors. It was still, however, overcrowded. On board the transport, also overcrowded he was being monitored by the ships doctors. He was still quite ill and was unable to engage in much physical activity.

      The girl he was engaged to marry hadn’t written in over a year. He assumed that she had found someone that was more readily available. Most likely he was a slacker who had found a way out of going overseas, a real coward no doubt. He had heard that there were many of them and some even got rich off the backs of those who went.

      He had been away for almost two years. Tim was, before the war, a very active youth engaging in sports like football, hockey, wrestling and even some boxing. About six feet tall, he was a handsome specimen with brown hair and blue eyes. He would still be attractive were it not for all of the weight he had lost. He no longer had much of an appetite for food.

      Lulled into a day dreaming state by the constant rolling of the vessel his mind wandered back to his life just before getting into the war. His father was a minister and he himself had studied to follow the same path if he was ever able to work again. The doctors were not very encouraging when he brought up the subject, however. They didn’t really come right out and say he would not get better but they certainly didn’t say that he would recover.

      Tim was sometimes called Mac by his friends although for the most part he had not made many lasting friendships in the trenches. There had been too much turn over in personnel and just when you did begin friendships they would be ended by artillery, machine gun fire or poison gas

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