The Saga of Zachary Williams, The Sabine Kid
At the end of the Civil War, after losing his mom and dad, seventeen-year-old, Zachary Williams, heads out west after selling his Alabama farm. On his way west, he becomes a deck hand on a riverboat, a construction worker in Louisiana, a cowboy in Texas, and, after having his best friend killed by rustlers, he becomes one of the fastest of all the Texas gunslingers.
Follow the adventures of Zachary, as he makes his westward journey, changing from an Alabama farm boy, to gunslinger, to wagon master, to a wealthy man.. read it here