When my dad hears the story of the life and indecent death of pioneer Jack Swilling, he goes off on a crazy Old West adventure to fix the situation-and takes me with him. After a lifetime of hard work and dreaming of the Old West, my dad has finally retired to a life in the New West, resigned to let his dreams of adventure remain unrealized. But when I get him a western-style sunset ride for his birthday, he learns the story of Jack Swilling, an Arizona pioneer who played a big part in the settlement of Phoenix before dying in a brutal Yuma jail awaiting trial for a crime he did not commit.
Now, my dad wants to retrieve Jack Swilling's bones from Yuma for a proper Christian burial. To do it, he'll have to start by figuring out where he's buried-and finish with a big western adventure. If you like clean western fiction, with a humble hero battling for simple justice on the way to ride off into the sunset, you might like My Dad and Me and Jack Swilling.
When my dad hears the story of the life and indecent death of pioneer Jack Swilling, he goes off on a crazy Old West adventure to fix the situation-and takes me with him. After a lifetime of hard work and dreaming of the Old West, my dad has finally retired to a life in the New West, resigned to let his dreams of adventure remain unrealized. But when I get him a western-style sunset ride for his birthday, he learns the story of Jack Swilling, an Arizona pioneer who played a big part in the settlement of Phoenix before dying in a brutal Yuma jail awaiting trial for a crime he did not commit.
Now, my dad wants to retrieve Jack Swilling's bones from Yuma for a proper Christian burial. To do it, he'll have to start by figuring out where he's buried-and finish with a big western adventure. If you like clean western fiction, with a humble hero battling for simple justice on the way to ride off into the sunset, you might like My Dad and Me and Jack Swilling.