Snippet #1756985

June 1866, Eagles Bend, Texas.

Ana leaned against the door frame of her doctors surgery, her flaxen hair blowing slightly in the breeze, which was a welcomed relief in the sweltering Texan heat. Her blue eyes panned the dusty street as she marvelled at how much the town had grown in the six years since she had taken up residence here with her husband. It seemed like such a long time ago, she was barely sixteen when she married the handsome eighteen year old west point graduate and in those short few years she felt like she had already gone through a life time of emotions. When her husband died, she remembered her family urging her to come back home, a young mother of twenty living in a dangerous frontier town terrified her parents and at first it did her also, she came extremely close to packing up and moving back home, but taking one look at her surgery all doubt and uncertainty was gone. Ana had worked hard to build a life here, she had put her heart and soul into this town and it was Eagles Bend where she would live out till the end of her days.

It wasn’t an easy life, she was a female doctor by profession and the world still seemed too narrow minded to even entertain the thought, so regrettably she still relied on an allowance given to her by her father and the money she had inherited from her husband to keep herself and her son fed and clothed. Business was extremely slow, even though the nearest doctor besides herself was half a day’s hard ride away; she still wasn’t anybodies first choice. The thought saddened her really, she had worked damned hard to become a licensed doctor and she was good one at that, if only they would give her a chance.

It was safe to say that the town had indeed grown over the years but had also shrunk many of the familiar faces she had been familiar with had moved on, since many of the men had either been killed or maimed in the war the town had quite frankly gone to the dogs, it was no longer safe, outlaws roamed freely, doing what the pleased and with no one to stop them they considered Eagles Bend a Safe Haven. Never-the-less she wasn’t going to give up that easily, this town was important to her and she for one wasn’t going to give up without a fight.