Bøger af Arthur C Eastly

Investment plans were growing rapidly and people with extra amounts of money saved were happy with the new growth. Garnet McDowell had invented the system and was proud of the growth his investors were seeing in their portfolios. Word of his Calgary-based firm's success was being spread widely in conversations. As a result, people across North America were walking in or phoning long-distance to request information and start investing with Inter*Vest. While also building his family with his wife and business partner, Cindy, Garnet worked long hours with their highly trained employees and travelled everywhere the company had established offices. When the office closed each night, the McDowell family went home to the farm, donned their work clothes, and tended to the crops. Their private lives were enjoyable as the McDowells appeared to be normal, everyday citizens. No one would ever suspect their vast wealth or the strength it had taken them to accumulate it.

Bill Crooks bought a backhoe when he was still a teenager and went to work. In short order, he bought a new caterpillar D6 to build roads, leases, or any other work an oil company hired him to do. He formed Crooks Oilfield Construction Ltd. and growth was underway. Bill worked hard for long hours, seven days each week, and expanded his knowledge. Field foreman for several different oil companies liked Crooks' honesty, great service, and delivery and his business grew. He bought 160 acres of farmland and established his office just outside of Stoney Plain, Alberta. When his wife told him that she was pregnant, he stopped the purchase of another large caterpillar and used the money to build them a home. Now, twenty years later, they still live in that big house.Bill hired experienced, hardworking people. He established several managers to run various divisions in the company like service rigs, drilling rigs, building facilities, servicing and repairing bottom hole pumps, and a supply department to sell pump-jacks, tubing, casing, line pipe for pipelines, and repair parts for almost everything used on a production lease. His people even painted signs for the customers to identify the wells and roads. The excellent service his company supplied to the oil companies and the Department of Forestry kept the employees busy, Bill often worked fourteen-hour days, either in the office or out in the production fields.Bill's son Austin was studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alberta and each summer joined Crooks Oilfield Construction and took some of the workload off his father's shoulders. In two years, Austin would be a full-time employee and down the road would take over running the company.

He was on his own at twelve years old and learned to hunt, drive teams of oxen, trap beaver, and came to know mountain men, Indians, and white settlers. Some were honest but most you had better keep an eye on.Trace Truejay never backed away from aggressive trappers, fighting everyone who crossed him with fists, knives, or rifles, until they learned to avoid him and his deadly accurate Winchester. His name and deeds became legendary and would be remembered for generations to come. Several times, he saved trappers who were stranded by Indian attacks and along the Rockies he came to be known by his reputation for strong horses, a dead shot with a rifle, and his choice to leave trapping and begin a cattle ranch. A lone man starting to raise cattle faces many challenges and Truejay moved ahead on his own initiative, selling off his steers, keeping his Angus heifers to build the herd, and hunting and growing his own food. The 1860s in Colorado presented many changes with settlers arriving from the east, gold miners digging up stream beds, Indian wars, and the military setting up forts. What Truejay hadn’t bargained for was the arrival of his new neighbor, Colonel Wally Turnbull. Not happy with simply settling his own land, Turnbull was determined to take over the entire territory—threatening settlers, Indians, and anyone who happened to cross the path of his nasty crew of cowboys.Set for the fight of his life, Trace reverts to his mountain man days as he poses as an Indian to defend himself, his ranch, and his neighbors. A Savage Wolf, cut from the pack, is an unpredictable foe—he’ll stop at nothing to save that which he values most.