There comes a time in a man’s life when he has to make
the right choice, even if that means going against the advice of everyone around you – including your own children. I had to make one of those decisions – to choose to do what was right even if it meant dying. It was a matter of principle. The decision was quite easy to make, but difficult for others to understand. Let me explain.
You see, one day Blue Boy got really sick. He was so sick that Mark and I were really worried he would die, so we rode into town talk to Doc Burrage. As we were walking to the office, Mark was obviously worried and he suggested we give Blue Boy some sulfa and molasses, but I wanted to get the doc’s opinion.
As we knocked on his door, Mark stated worriedly, “Doc sure must know his business…taking care of people and horses both." I told Mark to stop worrying, but I knew how special Blue Boy was to him, so I knew I was wasting my breath.
Doc Burrage didn’t answer my knock, so I decided to go over to Micah’s and see if he’d seen him. “Do doctors have to go to school for a long time, pa?” Mark asked as we walked over there. I told him that doctors, lawyers and judges had to go to school for a long time to learn their jobs.
When we got into the marshal’s office, I was surprised to see the doc there tending a patient. There were also two men in there. Micah informed me that the man had gotten bushwhacked outside town.
"Bushwhacked?” I was surprised. “That's all open country!”
Micah agreed, "That's what so puzzling about the whole thing," he said. “The shots seemed to come from no wheres.” The two men were deputies and were on their way to Silver city for a trial.
to decide. There was only one right answer in my opinion. “I’ll be there,” I stated. As we were leaving, the deputy stated they would see me safely to
Silver City. Ha! Right, I saw how the first witness safely ended up there. I had my own idea, and told him I’d get there myself. 
that don’t mean anything. Come night time I go home, what do I got? Nothing but a cat named Penelope that meows and craws up in my overstuffed chair. I’ve got nothing and nobody. There’s lots of other folks in this town that are just as lonely as I am. Yet, you don’t find them galley batting off risking their necks. And then there’s you! You got a fine son. And yet you just can’t wait to let somebody use you for target practice!” I was as good as buried already! “Well, you can’t fight what you can’t see!” Hattie argued. “Loneliness is just about the hardest thing a person has to live with. I’d give anything to have that boy of yours for good, but I know how much parents mean to a kid. I should. I never had any.” I felt for her, but I still had to do what was right.
silence, I gave a voice to his fear. I said, "World looks awful big and lonely at night, doesn't it son?" I put a hand on each of his small shoulders and tried to reassure him, as I smiled down at my little boy. I wanted my smile to take away some of the burden my decision to go and testify had put on my son. Mark accepted it then. He knew nothing could ever really separate us, and that I would indeed return. We turned, closed the door, and went back to a more peaceful sleep.
the man then. I told Micah to come out in the morning and take Mark into town. That way no one would ever know I left. I felt pretty confident that everything would be okay.
I got ready to go. My boy was right by my side to see me off. “Mark and I have fishing plans for sun up tomorrow!” Micah announced. Boy, I wish I could go with them!
in the 'New Orleans Menace,' he played Xavier, the man who thought Lucas to be 'a muchy man.' His next episode was 'The Second Witness,' he played Brad Davis, he was the man dead set on killing Lucas for testify against his brother. In 'The Visitor' he played Pete Morgan, he tried to kill Ann Dodd in this episode. In 'The Mescalero Curse,' he played Mogollan, an Apache Indian who put 'The Mescalero Curse' on Lucas. The last episode he played Sanchez, in 'The Executioner,' the Indian and one of the heavies that came to collect his share of stolen money from a friend of Lucas's that just got out of jail. 