{"id":1816,"date":"2025-08-12T04:35:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2025-08-12T04:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:35:57","slug":"a-new-kind-of-western-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/a-new-kind-of-western-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"A new kind of western hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

The main characters in Western stories are ranchers, cowboys, lawmen, or outlaws. While these make for good storytelling, this reliance on such traditional characters overlooks the fact that it took a lot of different occupations to tame the frontier. Well, now there’s a new character in town. Eustis Tucker, a lawyer, shows the contributions that these unsung heroes made to bring law and order to the wild and woolly west.<\/p>\n

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In book one,\u00a0The Hanging Jury<\/em>, Eustis Tucker, a recent law school graduate, has arrived in Beeville, Texas to hang his shingle. The Bee County judge, a friend of Eustis’s law school professor, assigns him to defend a young Mexican who has been accused of murder, who can’t afford to hire a lawyer. Eustis has his work cut out for him. He’s never done a criminal trial, least of all a murder trial in a town where juries love to see the accused hang. Worse, he has to face off against a prosecutor who will do anything to win a case, including withholding exculpatory evidence.<\/p>\n

Get your copy of this book, available for now in e-book format at https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FLMMY6MC\/<\/a>. Be one of the first to see how Eustis navigates the byzantine corridors of a western courtroom in the fractious, violence-ridden Lone Star State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The main characters in Western stories are ranchers, cowboys, lawmen, or outlaws. While these make for good storytelling, this reliance on such traditional characters overlooks the fact that it took a lot of different occupations to tame the frontier. Well, now there’s a new character in town. Eustis Tucker, a lawyer, shows the contributions that … <\/p>\n

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