The Bad Men of Serenity

Curtis Bodine is a tall lean handsome thirty-year old man, with thick wavy black hair and handlebar mustache. Folks often mistook him for infamous Wyatt Earp, Deputy Marshal in Tombstone, Arizona. He had just finished his stint in the U.S. Army at Fort Whipple. It was a stone's throw from Prescott. He was now in search of a job. As he rode south, he stopped off to have a beer in a saloon in a little town called Serenity. The town had previously been a stage stop about twenty-five miles as the crow fly's due south of Prescott, Arizona. While he is in a saloon called Rowdy's, it was all that. He encounters some men fighting, he steps in to defuse the situation. This catches the eye of Serenity's local sheriff, an aging feisty no-nonsense lawman named Isaiah Pritchard, who was impressed by Curtis Bodine's decisive action. The sheriff offers Curtis a job to be his deputy. Curtis accepts the job and takes up residence in the town. Within a years-time Curt as he was commonly called by the sheriff and the town locals, meets a young woman working in the cafe. After a brief courtship they get married. Jasmine was a young petite and attractive woman, two years younger than he. With long black hair many thought she might even be of Indian heritage, which she was not. The story follows the trials and tribulations befalling Curtis Bodine as a young deputy sheriff and the aging sheriff as they endeavor to maintain law and order in a town with a growing population of law-abiding ranchers and farmers, also its share of drunks, drifters, gamblers and outlaws.