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The Run
On the run from a racist, African-American Larkes Dixon heads west in search of opportunity but finds his dreams waylaid when he comes to the aid of a widow and her baby son.
343 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1998
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About the author
Johnny Quarles
14 books3 followersFrom his official obituary, published in The Enid News & Eagle newspaper, Dec. 9, 2008.
He was born June 29, 1946, in Warren, Ohio, to Waldo and Wilma Roach Quarles and died Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008, at Integris Northwest Specialty Hospital.
He moved from Warren with his family and grew up in Charleston, W.V. and Grants, N.M., where he graduated from high school. He served in the Army Special Forces Unit in Wiesbaden, Germany, from 1963 to 1966. Following his honorable discharge, he worked for Frisco Railroad. He then owned Chances R. Restaurant, and in 1978 went to work for KGWA as account executive and sports announcer for Enid High School.
He married Wendy Frey April 11, 1981, in Enid. He worked for a radio station in Columbia, S.C., as sports announcer and morning talk show host for two years. In the early 1980s, he and Denny Price operated P&Q; Well Service.
He returned to Enid in 1988 and began his writing career. He wrote more than 12 novels and wrote television screen plays, most notably the “Lonesome Dove” series. His novels were published by Avon Publishing of New York City where several were on the best seller list. He was novelist in residence at Phillips University from 1995 to 1998. He was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church. He coached football for EJRT, women’s softball and youth baseball.
To read more, visit the newspaper site: http://enidnews.com/localnews/x518702...
He was born June 29, 1946, in Warren, Ohio, to Waldo and Wilma Roach Quarles and died Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008, at Integris Northwest Specialty Hospital.
He moved from Warren with his family and grew up in Charleston, W.V. and Grants, N.M., where he graduated from high school. He served in the Army Special Forces Unit in Wiesbaden, Germany, from 1963 to 1966. Following his honorable discharge, he worked for Frisco Railroad. He then owned Chances R. Restaurant, and in 1978 went to work for KGWA as account executive and sports announcer for Enid High School.
He married Wendy Frey April 11, 1981, in Enid. He worked for a radio station in Columbia, S.C., as sports announcer and morning talk show host for two years. In the early 1980s, he and Denny Price operated P&Q; Well Service.
He returned to Enid in 1988 and began his writing career. He wrote more than 12 novels and wrote television screen plays, most notably the “Lonesome Dove” series. His novels were published by Avon Publishing of New York City where several were on the best seller list. He was novelist in residence at Phillips University from 1995 to 1998. He was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church. He coached football for EJRT, women’s softball and youth baseball.
To read more, visit the newspaper site: http://enidnews.com/localnews/x518702...
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March 11, 2018
WILL HAPPINESS STOP AT MY DOOR
We were never promised a"rose garden," but sometimes that's what we all want. Society makes the decisions which determines the have and the have nots. Some cultures have a caste systems which prevails in many countries today.
How men took advantage of young girls, they were predators and they were sons of gun. You do for me and I'll pretend to help you; that means if you are nice to me, I'll throw you a crust of bread, bag of mealy flour oh yes slab of rancid mystery meat.
This is so sad and realistic of the characters in this story and it also illustrates how deep poverty was in the west. Entire families were decimated by starvation, diseases ran rampant such as tuberculosis, cholera outbreaks which destroyed entire settlements....a very earthy story.
We were never promised a"rose garden," but sometimes that's what we all want. Society makes the decisions which determines the have and the have nots. Some cultures have a caste systems which prevails in many countries today.
How men took advantage of young girls, they were predators and they were sons of gun. You do for me and I'll pretend to help you; that means if you are nice to me, I'll throw you a crust of bread, bag of mealy flour oh yes slab of rancid mystery meat.
This is so sad and realistic of the characters in this story and it also illustrates how deep poverty was in the west. Entire families were decimated by starvation, diseases ran rampant such as tuberculosis, cholera outbreaks which destroyed entire settlements....a very earthy story.
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