The Caney Kansas Jail Break A Memoir

An American adventure story set in the 1950s and 1960s that follows the life of Paul Barrett, a working class kid from Queens, New York, who falls in love with the rodeo at a matinee performance in Madison Square Garden. The story details Paul's freewheeling journey, along with the smooth-talking RJ Christy, and other young boys from New York City who also have big rodeo dreams. They roam New England as hired hands in wild west shows, and travel west in hotel Chevrolet as rodeo competitors in the days of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. It's a life where hard work and perseverance are relentlessly trumped by lady luck in determining Paul's fate, and whether or not he can make his championship bull riding dreams come true.

Paul is a rodeo cowboy from the heart of New York City, who knows a great deal about horses and has more miles on him than Route 66. He has a talent for connecting with people through the telling of stories.Paul has lived in many places and has friends all over the world. He is a man of great integrity, and a philosopher. Leon Breeden, who was the legendary Director of the University of North Texas Jazz Program referred to Paul as, 'A world champion Musicologist'. Sometime in the mid-seventies, the North Texas' One O'Clock Lab band did one-night concerts all the way from San Diego to Vancouver. Leon was too sick to go, so he sent Jim Riggs. He told Jim, "In every town you play – dedicate one chart to Paul Barrett in case he shows up".Paul has kept company with folks from every walk of life – the wealthiest - to the poor, but the company that he most prefers is that of his cat, Ginger, in his humble abode in Krum, Texas.