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Since this is intended to be the last book in this series, Ralph wanted to be especially careful with how it ended. For that reason, for the first time Ralph wrote the last storyline/subplot first.
Those readers who have read the entire series will notice something unique. Ralph made an effort, during some of the storylines/subplots of this book, to bring back many characters that had been important to Johnny previously in this series of books.
Storylines/Subplots:
1 – Woman who owns local saloon is leader of gang - Chapters 1-7
2 - Sneaky women bank robbers - Chapter 8
3 - Transports prisoners who are the leaders of a ruthless gang - Chapters 9-12
4 – Rescues people in train accident - Chapters 13-14
5 - Finds man he is after locked in a jail cell in an abandoned town – abandoned because of Indian activity – Chapters 15-17
6 - Hired to protect judge from escaped prisoners whom he sent to jail - Chapters 18-20
7 - Skunk in open grave where man is to be buried. Chapter 21
8 - Rancher wants to hire Johnny to be on his side for a range war. He is too persuasive. Chapter 22
9 - Lady hires men to kill the man killed her husband, but Johnny captures finds the real killer. Chapters 23-29
10 - Follows large gang through numerous horrible crimes hoorahing towns in three states. – Chapters 30-35
11 – Stops a bank robbery in Denver at his bank. At trial judge asks how many men he has killed and tells him time is passing his kind by and his kind is not needed anymore, he doesn’t get to reply. – Chapter 36
12 - Margaret Rose Reubens (Jenny Rose) has a son in early 1884 that belongs to Johnny. Missy, her maid and friend, writes Johnny a letter to tell him (sending it to Marshal Steve Morgan in Denver as he had previously told here). Margaret knew she was pregnant before they had gotten to Wichita. Names son Matthew Wallace Ringo (Matthew after Johnny’s father and Wallace because that was the name of the small town where she had gotten pregnant). He gets money from Ellsworth and heads to St. Louis. Sees a ranch in a beautiful valley about an hour train ride from St. Louis. He gets off train and puts a deposit down – ranch house is furnished because owner died and relatives back east only want to sell it – going to raise horses. After meeting his son, they go three blocks to a church and get married. Then pack and move to the ranch. He starts going by his middle name, Aaron. - Chapters 37-42
Total words = 55,633