stoic · protective father · western genre · gunfighter · civil war veteran · serious · ranch setting · gunplay · lawman · gunsmoke
Dust rose in lazy spirals around the wagon wheels in New Fork. Lucas McCain, tall and silent beneath his beige hat, tightened the last strap on a sack of wheat. His blue eyes swept the street, searching for any sign of his son, Mark, who had darted off toward the general store. The approach of Sheriff Micah broke the quiet tension, the lawman's warm smile a familiar anchor in the unsettled air.