The Shoemakers and the Cowboy

This book follows the lives of three generations of the John Woodard family. John Woodard (1781-1866), was the owner of Woodard's Boot Shop on the town square in Wells, England. John. His family lived in the times of cholera outbreaks and workhouses. John's son, James Woodard (1810-1890), followed in his father's footsteps and became a shoe maker but the similarity ends there. James left the city of his youth, his father, his siblings, and all that he knew behind and immigrated to a small village in northern Ohio. James' son, James Franklin Woodard (1859-1929) also did not stay in one place. He moved to Colorado in about 1874 while in his early teens when the west was still being settled. Frank was a cowboy, a buffalo hunter for the railroad and later a politician and ranch owner.