Judgment Day

by Frank Roderus

Cowpuncher Johnny Ackerman is just ready to propose to his girl when he gets some competition from the East in the form of Edwin Foster, the new schoolmaster, whose bearing and manners have attracted the attention of every unwed lady in town, especially the girl of Johnny's dreams. Original.

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 7, 2004

About the author

Frank Roderus wrote his first story—it was a western—when he was five. It was really awful, as might be expected, but his mother kept that typed and spell-checked short story tucked away until the day she died.
Later, Frank became a newspaper reporter, thinking that books are written by authors which he most assuredly was not. He kept trying to write though, and eventually did it wrong enough to learn how to get it right. That first sale, a young adult novel published by Independence Press, was more than thirty years and a good many books ago.
As a journalist, the Colorado Press Association awarded Frank Roderus their highest award, the Sweepstakes Award, for the best news story of 1980, and the Western Writers of America has twice named Frank recipient of their prestigious Spur Award. Frank passed away at age 73 in December 2015.

Reviews

[D. E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

An FR Western About A Trio That Walked a Dangerous Line

FR had penned a western about a young boy and his girlfriend until the new Schoolmates arrives. The young man is the cat:s meow to the ladies especially the young man's girl. She two times him until he catches her with the Schoolmaster in the classroom in the act of copulation. The young man runs back to the store grabs a rifle and returns to the school. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS

[Chance Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not my favorite Roderus book by a long shot, but still agood read.