Willow Creek Showdown (ePub)

Will Price was born and raised in and around the farmlands of Central Indiana. He attended Labratory, Rankin, and Garfield High School. Before graduation, Will said that school was interfering with his education, so he quit and joined the Air Force.

As a proud member of Security Service, Will traveled around the world. He served in Europe and the Far East for eight years then returned to civilian life. While in the USAF, Will received his GED Diploma and after leaving the service, attended Indiana State University for five years, majoring in Archeology and a minor in English.

After the Air Force, Will worked on the railroad as a locomotive engineer for twenty-five years. Some of the men he worked with appear under different names in his book.

Will loved to travel and he loved the Western reaches of our great land the most. Since as far back as he could remember, he listened to stories of the western gunfights, the Indians, and the baked land that absorbed the lives and stories of the people, like it sucked up the infrequent rains that touched its face. Once when he was just a youth of thirteen, he met a man in Arizona who rode with the Younger Gang. He was a very old man known as Outlaw Bob. Bob told of the old days. The hard riding, hiding, hunger and other hardships that the outlaws of those days had to endure. He always finished his stories by saying "Boys, ya had to be in it for the excitement, cause there sure wasn’t any money."

Will’s Great Grandmother told him a story of Jesse James and part of that story is told here.