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Howdy Ya'll.
I wanted to take this time to introduce myself to you. I'm Patricia PacJac Carroll and happy to be here.

The PacJac are my initials and my husbands. When I went to publish my books, I found out there were other Patricia Carrolls out there, so, I added our initials.

To the left you'll see our horse, Big John Deere. My son got him when a friend said he had a horse that needed some grass, and we had grass needing a horse.
So we named him John Deere because
he came to mow.

I have always loved stories of the West and grew up watching westerns. AND I've always loved horses.

I write sweet clean historical romances set in the West. 

They all have a little fun, faith and always a Happily-ever-after. 

The older I get, the more I see how Life is hard. It has joys and triumphs but also trials and troubles. One thing I can do is to write stories that encourage, give hope, and entertain.

 I started watching the TV show Gunsmoke at night, and believe me, they are not sweet Hallmark movies. lol  Many of the stories are harsh, probably realistic to the hard life on the plains in the 1800s. But man, if you are not one of the stars,  you are likely to end up dead.  Of course that brings up the Cartwrights on Bonanza. You had better not fall in love with a Cartwright boy.

So I want you to know that my stories will have some trials but my characters will persevere. Romance will bloom on the prairie. And readers will have a good time and leave the pages of my stories happy. 

I look forward to finding interesting true stories of the West to share with you on this blog on the 6th of the month.

If you want to see my books and connect with me on social media here are the links:

Web site………... patriciapacjaccarroll.com

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Amazon page: Books by Patricia PacJac Carroll

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Patricia PacJac Carroll

I do have a free book July 5-9, 2019  The Judge's Bride.  

Love Happens... Even when you have 10 kids.

Rachel held the letter in her hand as she watched the banker come up the lane. He was taking the farm. Wasn't it enough she'd been widowed 2 years ago. Worse, good meaning townspeople wanted her to disperse her ten children to families who needed them. She had to keep her family together. The letter from the judge in Montana. Her only hope of keeping her family together was to go west to Montana as a mail order bride.
Judge Solomon Taggart groaned at having to referee a dispute between the two feuding families. That even their children were at each other made him doubt the wisdom of sending that letter to the widow in Minnesota. She had children. She didn't say how many, and he hadn't asked. He grabbed his rifle and swung up in the saddle, praying there'd be no bloodshed. And then he prayed he'd been wise to send that letter.

The Judge's Bride

SHERIFF VS MARSHAL By Cheri Kay Clifton

Often historical western books depict one of their characters as a sheriff or marshal of a town including the book I’m writing now. But before I decided which one my character would be, I wanted to know the difference between them. Following is a brief overview of the duties and jurisdictions of a sheriff and marshal in the Old West.

Traditionally, the sheriff was an elected county official. Towns elected or appointed marshals. A U.S. Marshal was a federal appointment and covered outlaws who broke federal laws. A federal marshal or deputy marshal could also pull double duty as a sheriff, sheriff’s deputy, or town marshal.

The sheriff was elected to uphold the law in a particular town or county, but as soon as he crossed the town or county borders, he had no authority. Trouble was, unlike today, the borders weren’t as clearly drawn in the Old West, so the jurisdiction was sometimes uncertain.

U.S. Marshals had jurisdiction everywhere since they worked for the federal government. Their job was to apprehend fugitives from justice. A marshal’s authority could supersede that of the sheriff insofar as apprehending wanted fugitives were concerned.

Many lawmen received no pay other than a percentage of money that those they arrested might be fined, or the collection of bounties on the heads of wanted men. Consequently, some had second jobs to supplement their income as stagecoach guards; others ran saloons!

Of those who did make a salary, it was often very low, and their duties often included tasks that many felt were beneath them, such as keeping the streets clean and other municipal duties. Much of their work consisted of weeks of boring tasks, interspersed by periods of high danger and sometimes deadly altercations.

For these reasons and more, few of even the most famous lawmen spent that many years wearing a badge, including Wild Bill Hickok, who only served a few years in various 

roles and Wyatt Earp, who worked in a few Kansas cowtowns, before gunning down the Clantons in a showdown at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

Below is a bronze sculpture of one of the most iconic fictional marshals ever portrayed on TV – Marshal Dillon.

If you're going to make a life-size statue of James Arness, you're going to need a lot of bronze. The Western star stood at a towering 6' 7". No wonder his character Matt Dillon was such an imposing figure on Gunsmoke.

For twenty seasons, Marshal Dillon kept the peace on the dusty streets of Dodge City. Now, the real-life Dodge City, a town of about 27,000 residents in southwestern Kansas, has its own Matt Dillon. On July 30, 2017, a bronze likeness of the character was installed next to the Dodge City Visitors Center on Wyatt Earp Boulevard.

 Please visit my website: www.cherikayclifton.com