Born Out of Season - Softcover

Hooker, Ralph L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0960566619 ISBN 13: 9780960566617

Publisher: Scurlock Pub Co, 1982

Synopsis

How do you describe a man whom many called “a living legend”? Marshal Ralph Hooker, was such a person. He led a life of adventure from an early age, growing up in Missouri and Oklahoma. It was in this later frontier territory that Hooker first got a taste of the recently passed 19th century Wild West. It was in old Oklahoma that he was befriended by former outlaws, wild Indians, and wilder cowboys. Their tales of robbing banks, riding across the plains, and evading posses helped convince the young man to go on the road to adventure himself. What followed can only be described as a life that was one long romantic journey, as Hooker walked and rode through the seldom traveled back roads of a vast, and still unsettled, nation. Carrying a long rifle which once belonged to Daniel Boone, the young explorer walked the length of the Wilderness Road, twice! He ventured alone along the fabled Sante Fe Trail. Then he left behind his walking shoes, and took to the saddle, keeping the old Chisholm Trail alive, and riding more than 2,000 miles along the Ozark Frontier Trail. “Born Out of Season” is Hooker’s life, told in his own unvarnished words. It is a simple story, of a not-too-simple man, a man who was restless to the day he died, a man who ached to follow the sun, a man who inspired and taught three generations to listen to their hearts and follow their own adventurous spirits. The pages are filled with words that act as a slide show to another, earlier, age. For if he was many things, mountain man, sheriff, equestrian explorer, Marshal Ralph Hooker, could also weave a good yarn. This is that story, based on truth, days in the saddle, and nights out on the plains. It is a classic. Now and forever.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scurlock Pub Co
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0960566619
• ISBN 13: 9780960566617
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Scurlock William H.