The Last Survivor

By "The Cowboy" Jim Gray
THE WAY WEST

In his 85th year, Tom Murphy’s thoughts turned to times gone by.

He had seen and lived a life that few men in the year of 1929 had known. With that in mind his daughter, Dorothy Murphy, served as his secretary, recording his memories for future generations. A companion memoir was fittingly recorded by Tom’s wife, Nancy Jane and placed in a folder of family information. From the two documents, frontier Kansas lives once more as the Murphys lived it in the days of their youth.

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