title: The Cowboy's Romance
author: Eddy, Franklin
description: Dave was just a lonely cowboy living with his dad on a ranch.  He ran onto his old girlfriend in town, and he bought her a hamburger at the Dairy Queen. He invited her out to the ranch to go horseback riding.  It didn't take him long to realize that she was unhappy in her marriage and wanted a future with him. But her husband came looking for them with a shotgun in his hand.
  He suddenly realized that he might have gotten himself into a mess which would take some skill and luck to get out of.
  This short story has no explicit sex or profanity.