The Lady Wore A Badge

<p>Tom McLaughlin was the sheriff for more than six years in a place called Fossil Creek. A quiet little town in southern Arizona near the Mexican border. He along with his wife Ava and their daughter Emma Jane now twenty-years old which her parents nicknamed EJ. They had to move west from Ludlow Kansas for his wife Ava's health.<br>Not having a son McLaughlin had spent much of his time imparting his daughter with his knowledge and expertise with handling a gun. He had acquired these skills first as a deputy sheriff in Ludlow Kansas then as sheriff of Fossil Creek. He was known for his hard fisted no nonsense manner. He was a man of quick wit smart and above all quite proficient with a six-gun.<br>He passed these attributes on to a young EJ as she developed the skill's that would one day come in handy when fate shatters her own dreams of becoming a school teacher and the attractive young lady would ultimately be cast in a role destined to follow in her father's footsteps. Hence she soon would become a sheriff.<br> </p>