The Man from Sweetwater

Meet Dan Morgan, who lives in Sweetwater, Texas, with his father, sister, and ranch hand Clay Elkins. He is about to celebrate his twentieth birthday Texan-style with a good smoke, a round of poker, and a town dance with his sweetheart. A seemingly innocent game turns into a confrontation that changes his life forever. Follow Dan as he travels through the harshest terrain of the Old West, meeting both friend and dangerous foe, leaving behind love and family to clear his name. Hank Scott paints a beautiful and passionate portrait of traditional perilous Western landscapes as he describes the suspenseful adventures of a young man forced to grow up to stay alive.

Hank Scott was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1906. He attended Temple Uiversity where he studied industrial Engineering around 1930. He entered the workforce during the first years of the Great Depression at the then Philco Corporation in Philadelphia where he met the love of his life. He married in 1940.
Hank's ambitious nature prompted him to purchase a plot of undeveloped land in Fairfield, Connecticut where he built his home and raised his two children.
Hank loved the popular 1950s Western-movie genre, especially color films with his favorite Western actors. The Man from Sweetwater was inspired both by his interest in the history of the old west and the popular romantic notions of the roles that cowboys and Indians played in molding the Southwest at the time of its writing. The book was unpublished at the time of Hank's death in 1973.

Susan Elizabeth DeLeon, Hanks daughter assisted her dad by typing up the drafts of this book as they were handwritten by her father when she was in high school. It was much later in 1973 when Susan had the benefit of spending some special with her dad that he turned to her with a somber look, and requested that she take over the responsibility of getting The Man from Sweetwater published after he was gone. He passed away three days later.
Recently, Susan created the final version of this novel by combining four similar manuscripts all originally written around 1959.
Susan graduated from Fairfield University in Connecticut with a Master's of Art's Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. She was employed as the Director of a non-profit program, where she advocated for the rights of domestic violence survivors for over twenty-five years. Susan recently moved to Tucson, Arizona where she has enjoyed reliving the adventures of Dan Morgan, the young man at the center of this entertaining story.