“Well, Doc, I guess by now you understand we’ve got no goddamn use for sympathizers who love those black skinned folks.” Realizing that the dial of his life was showing the hands near the midnight hour, the trembling doctor felt a sudden serene and willful peace come over him.

Thunder at River Station is a compelling and vivid fictional story of two doctors of medicine involved with the thundering sounds coming from millions of long horn cattle, blazing guns, and men with very different views on life that were once part of the expanding and rugged Western frontier spreading from Missouri to Texas during the turbulent years of the mid and late 1800s.

This is a must-read for those with interest in the Civil War and the issues faced by individuals and our entire nation during that time.

About the author:

During his thirty-five-year career as a physician with a medical specialty in Radiology, the Author was the recipient of both state and national recognition for his professional leadership and achievements in both clinical and academic medicine. Since his retirement from medicine in 1995, he has come to enjoy a successful second career as both an artist and free-lance writer. His award-winning illustrations and bronze sculptures can be found in private art collections, galleries, homes, offices and schools from coast to coast. His publications are available through Amazon and Barnes-Noble stores. Briney enjoys associate and lifetime memberships in several medical, art and literary societies and associations that include the Texas League of Writers and the Western Writers of America.

Through the years, the Author and his wife of sixty years have enjoyed traveling to many parts of the world. They reside in the cattle ranching country of north central Texas. The Briney’s have five adult grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Samson The Modern-Day America

STEPHEN RAY WILLIAMS is a retired electrician. Born Again at the age of ten. He is gifted with a natural talent and magnificent aptitude for math. Williams was able to show and display his natural gift at an early age, teaching a second semester math class at the age of eleven. His logical and analytical mind has also brought him a chess trophy (third in the state in the junior division) at the age of thirteen, and an award for the world’s largest unofficial Magic Math Square in his ninth-grade science fair at the age of fourteen. As Williams’ extensive knowledge was acknowledged, opportunities to share it were in demand. He taught one class in Number Theory at the Oral Roberts University in his mid-twenties. Williams also had a Math Formula copyrighted and also earned a Doctor of Naturopathy certificate, a drug-free medical treatment. He won a baseball trophy in his teens, he square danced for seven years and involved in two square dance Exhibitions. He played a fiddle for five years. He has written several poems about his best friend (a cat named Tiger Ray): they have been published in seven books, two of which went international, one became a song and got up to a Nation Release. He also has won three trophies for his poems about Tiger Ray. His favorite place for relaxation and vacation is the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove, in Ashville, North Carolina.

Author Bio

Author Stephen R. Williams is an electrician, gifted with a natural talent and superb aptitude for math. Williams was able to exhibit his natural gift at an early age, teaching a second semester math class at the age of eleven. His logical and analytical mind has also brought him a chess trophy at the age of thirteen, and an award for the world’s largest unofficial Magic Math Square in his ninth-grade science fair. As Williams’ extensive knowledge was recognized, opportunities to share it was in demand. He taught one class in Number Theory at the Oral Roberts University, and had a math formula copyrighted. He also earned a Doctor of Naturopathy certificate, a drug-free medical treatment.

Williams also had other interests that offered a different avenue for expressing his gifts. He took fiddle lessons for five years, square danced for seven-and-a-half years where he was involved in two square dance exhibition groups – The Single Stars and Treasure Rays. He also did some square dance calling. He also played town baseball for five years as shortstop, and wrote several songs, one of which is a national release. Poems are also his past time and some of them were published in five books, two of which are international. He also won three trophies for his three poems dedicated to the best friend and soul mate he misses – a cat named Tiger Ray. On his free time, Williams settles down in his favorite vacation place in the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove.