As for money having power, I could buy a man and keep him forever, but I didn’t have enough dough for that. Other cowboys could because their bank accounts were fourteen hands high. That wasn’t my case. I made a living off private investigative work in West Stockton and the surrounding towns in Stockton County. My agency was on Lockmar Street in downtown West Stockton, which kept me busy with a career, food in my stomach, and Wolf Ridge Ranch to live on.