A tenacious man who's violent and cunning ways sustained him through years of danger is compelled to teach the same lethal skills to his mute son.

The above sentence implies these stories are mostly violent which is misleading. Violence is simply the foundation so when  the emotions of caring, tenderness and love are displayed the stories will have a profound range for emotion. The violence is not absurd, but striking. The adventures follow the path of feelings. 

The entertainment industry is ripe for a well directed western adventure. When will one appear; two, five years down the road? When is the right time? The world is approaching seven billion people. Thousands of western novels are purchased daily. Western songs are heard on radio stations all day long. There are people all over this nation that are ready to view a fresh new western. Good promotin can easily fill a vacum. Millions of people all over the world enjoy the adventure of a western tale. That’s one way people in foreign lands touch the spirit of America. The western genre isn't dead it just needs the spotlight.

These stories will attract the youth of today because they will become interested in the dilemmas of the young characters in the adventures. To capture the interest of many nationalities several characters that are likeable and memorable are Hispanic, Black, German and Caucasian. Emotions will grasp young hearts. Any person would have a cold soul if their eyes don't get glassy when they learn about a sick little girl in a hospital who is afraid she won’t be dead when they bury her, but she still takes death head on. Brad doesn’t even know her, but he stands by her hospital bed so she will not die alone. She dies quickly. Brad is a strong young man and has no fear in him. Life has toughened him by tearing pieces from his heart. He leaves the hospital and his mind mixes the death of the child with the deaths in his past. He walks into an alley, puts his strong hands against a cold brick wall and he weeps. Will people get a lump in their throat when a young mute boy holding his dieing mother in his arms struggles to form the words, I love you with his lips. His mother lovingly says, “I know” and then dies.
  
These multi genre western dramas blend with the industry's formality. One will feel they are not involved with fiction because there are so many interesting historical facts of this country that appear in natural activity and conversation. I write 'stories' because a film will beget a television series. 


                                                                                   THE STORIES 

 

Murder throws a twelve year old boy into a New York disruptive city and horrendous society in 1844. With his natural tenacity and a street gutter heart that society grooms in him, hate and caring have their battles in Brad Jamestown’s mind. Existence is not a tender nurse. Before Brad develops a heart of flint, situations and people come into his life and turn him from his journey of destructive repayment.

 

Two tough but decent men, Jason and Mr. Von who own a saloon bring the first change into Brad’s life. He develops self control. Jason teaches Brad that if he fights with every jackass he meets he better be prepared to fight every day for the rest of his life. Jason also teaches Brad about life. When young Brad asks Jason about women, Jason tells him he's to young to be a lover, just be a liker. "Remember, there's enought women in the world that want to fool around, don't pick on the ones that don't" Jason is a black, unforgetable character.

Death again turns Brad's life upside down. Once he gathers himself he goes to work for the New York Daily Times. Child prostitution is out of control in the city. About seventy percent of the city's deaths are children caused mostly by foul milk.They die in agony. Brad comes face to face with one maker of the milk and out of anger puts the the evil doer in the hospital. Mr. Raymond, the publisher of the Times treats Brad like a son. He's aware of Brad's lack of direction with his life. He advises hin, "If you have good abilities and good opportunities, don't limit your success by making bad decisions." Brad's love affair with Kathleen is a good decision. An example of an Oo or an Ah is when one of Brad's mentors, John, tells him not to be bamboozled when he gets information for a story and to varify that it's true. He gives Brad an example of a man who got the New York Sun to print an article that some immigrants were shipped from Europe to America in a balloon. The man that succeeded with the hoax was, Edgar Allan Poe.

While working for the Times Brad meets the murderer of his parents and justification soothes his spirit. Jason taught Brad to walk away from trouble, but the streets of New York are filled with hoodlums, thugs and killers. This evening Brad saves the life of Mr. Samuel Colt. He puts a knife wielding thief down with a broken wrist, arm, and torn shoulder muscles in an instant. Samuel is struck with Brad's ability to fight but more impressed with his humility. The methods that Brad uses are clever and the entertained will understand how the action took place, but their concentration on the story is not disturbed. I write that I stay with fact and realism. The methods used in Brad's altercations are true because they are taken from confrontations on the streets in my youth. Brad goes to work for Sam Colt in Connecticut and the largest armory in the world is built. Brad has a foundation of decency that his parents planted in his young mind. Everyone that gets to know Brad is attracted to that quality and always add more support. Sam Colt sees how Brad takes to weapons and he wants to be sure Brad realizes he has to control them. Sam said, “People who hurt others have payback days. Many think those days don't apply to them. But, during their agony when they want mercy they will only hear, “What’s the matter you dished it out, can’t you take it?”  

 

Being an adventurous young man, Brad travels west by way of the Oregon Trail. Brad meets his wife to be. Ann contacts cholera which is an intestinal disease that killed thousands of people throughout history. Brad cares for her. Wayne, one of the trail masters rides by her wagon and says to Brad, "How's our little nurse today?"  Wayne is a tough bastard. The more he fights the more he wants to fight. Brad is furious and jumps from the wagon and the battle is on. Brad wins the brawl, but on the open plains even the buffalo want to get out of the way. Brad constantly cleans Ann's body of filth. They fall in love and are married.

 

The two settle in San Fernando, California. Ann gives birth to a baby boy. At the age of two Sam contacts diphtheria. Due to a long sickness it takes away Sam’s ability to speak. His parents raise him with gentleness. During these years townsfolk think Sam is stupid and even cursed by God. At the age of thirteen Sam comes home from school where a man and a boy beat the hell out of Sam. In the morning Brad takes his guns from the peg on the wall and straps them on.

 

Ann says, “What are you going to do?” She has seen her husband angry before.

 

Brads points to his badly bruised son. “You like what you see?”

 

“No.”

 

Brad firmly states, “No one is going to beat Sam again---at anything.”

 

Now the dangerous education begins. With an understanding of Brad’s past one can imagine what Sam will learn from his  mature father. Since Sam lost his ability to speak his senses of sight and touch are greater. What better assets for handling a weapon are there? Sam learns to pull a gun from his holster as fast as a man can pull his finger from a red hot stove. Sam’s ability to read a man’s eyes and body movements are more acute because he doesn't have to concentrate on talking. Brad tells Sam while teaching him, “Watch a man’s eyes Samuel. When the whites of his eyes get bigger, he’s excited and he’s going to draw his weapon." Throughout Brad’s life he always learned when things get serious everybody’s good. The one who knows the tricks wins. Sam would be taught all of them. Will the student become better than his teacher, must he? Sam's hope for young companionship is satisfied, but problems come with it.
 
Any prisoner that is released or escaped from prison is assured a job at the, Bell ranch. It is an interesting spread containing Bell, his three nasty sons, and touchy ex-cons. Bell enjoys dominating warped personalities. Our adventures
are set; they are realistic, logical, and your biggest emotion will be hate. Yet, at times caring will be in your thoughts.  These strange bed fellows create surprises. I won't reveal any more of the first storey, but I will point you in the right direction. There is a moment in the middle of the adventure when the storey almost reaches a climax. You will feel like you're getting involved with a new adventure because the tale leaps to such a higher level of intensity. All have heard the phrase, "Vengence is mine." When it takes place it is terrifying. Right or wrong, Sam becomes the administrator.

 

SILENT BRAND has established a solid foundation so the adventure can continue as a television series; YOUNG SILENT JUSTICE. This is a unique situation because the mute young sheriff is, Sam. He is not a character created out of thin air. We watched Sam grow up and we learned what he is capable of doing. Now, what dangers will come into his life as he becomes sheriff of Wrenrock? Will he always win out, without being harmed? Who will help him? How does his wife support him? Yes, his deceased father taught him well but he is still young. What lessons will he have to learn the hard way? We like Sam and we'll live moments with him. Perhaps we'll be so involved we'll see what he sees and feel what he feels.

The first television episode is published inside the novel for the purpose of getting all of the concrete elements of the story under a firm copyrrite. YOUNG SILENT JUSTICE is a story about a young mute sheriff. The first episode is entitled, BLOOD AND TEARS IN THE SAND. What drives Sam to become sheriff of Wrenrock? ‘Sam holds the little girl in his arms as blood falls from her mouth onto the sand; just as his tears fell upon his mother’s grave. The child’s unsteady hand reaches out ever so slightly wanting the security of her mother’s arms. Her hopeful voice pleads weakly, “Mommy.” The child’s body goes limp. The child is dead. Sam's expression is one of tender understanding as he gently places the dead child in the mothers arms. The mother's tears are there,  behind them we imagine a pitifull emptiness.' Sam will become sheriff and he will kill the man that killed the child. 

The first adventure is really two stories in one. The first part starts immediately with a unique flashback.  This is not a lazy way for exposition or one that doesn't move a story along, it is the story! This approach favors a lower budget because it allows better control of the young characters age transitions and smaller locations. The story is continuous so the entertained is not thinking, 'where are we now'. I believe the best way to understand the smoothness is to think of it as an act one and act two. 

 

 

    The following presentation is for people of authority in the film industry who might agree with my convictions.

Silent Brand and Young Silent Justice can, in my modest opinion overcome the weakened western genre and stay within a low budget.

 

One harmful element for the western's demise was the lack of appeal for the young film and television audiences.  The lead western characters were and are usually age forty and over. The main characters in these writings start at the age of twelve and go to age twenty. We watch Brad and Sam grow up and Sam stays at the age of twenty. The tales always keep youth in focus; all ages will follow.

I also believe the stories will appeal to the young because of the many “Oh” and “Ah” historical moments. For instance, when Edgar Allan Poe pulled off the balloon hoax on the New York Sun. Another for instance is when Brad learns that Mr. Allan Pinkerton saved President Lincoln’s life by alerting him to a planned assassination. When Lincoln started the secret service, Pinkerton was given the leadership. The stories are filled with off beat moments. A great deal of thought went into the smooth and justifiable usage of those moments. The stories surprise at the right time with unique historical fact. Many forms of sports were growing fast during the early eighteen forties. Because Brad was a young newspaper reporter, information within the adventures are revealed in a natural way.  When fighting is necessary to move the stories along, the methods are unusual. There are not any imaginary actions where a person is hit in the face with an axe ten times and still fights on. To see a brute hit the ground with his body stiff, out cold with one solid punch, is believeable and can be awesome. The adventures never let go of realism and logic. I don't under estimate an audiences desire to believe. 

The industry was flooded with westerns. There was too much sameness and stories were created just to be different. In both of those situations the purity of the western was sacrificed.  I humbly suggest these stories have a purity because they stay close to historical fact, have gripping moments of action, and emotional scenes that can arouse anyone's compassion. These stories have  messages, but they are quick, short, and never preachy. I am proud that they have impact, leave a decent message and then dart away. For instance, when Jason tells young Brad, "There are enough women in the world that want to fool around, don't pick on the ones that dont". Jason doesn't lecture to Brad  he strikes gentlly and is gone. The characters don't rag on others. Caring is constant and subtle. I believe a story should instigate others. Brad dislikes bullies and will go out of his way to defend others. In fact, the bully problem is very prominent in the news today. Perhaps Brad's attitude will 
encourage the youth of today not to put up with bullies. Delivering the message to love is a tough job. Caring has a chance to change people. Some people say an audience has a low intelligence level. I don't believe emotion needs intellect.

Poor ratings hindered westerns. Silent Brand and Young Silent Justice are stories that have impact. They are meaningful  tales. These stories are a director’s concert hall. I believe there are moments of tender emotions, light humor, and violemce that need that perfect balance for the story to be at its best. The scene when Sam places the dead child in her mothers arms; what could a director do with that moment? The fight on the open plains between Brad and Wayne is intense. Many popular young actors would have a hungry desire to play the mute. Wear a cops hat, a cowboy hat, or put a feather in your hat; a good story is a good story. If a producer and director take the lead, exercise their abilities, and then promotion shows the results of their talent; these stories will be successful financially and  industry laurels will be the feathers in their hats.