Brothers in the Old West were as different as brothers are today. Ranch and farm families had beautiful daughters and healthy hard working sons. If one brother turned bad, most often the other one or two followed in his footsteps. While most young men in the west were very hard-working honest boys, seldom were their deeds of leadership, compassion and caring for others ever heard of. Their families and neighbors were the grateful ones for having known such boys. The few bad ones robbed and killed their way into our history books. Yes history was quick to point this all out, but their fame was most often short-lived and the majority died by violence. It was very rare when one of those boys listened and could be jerked back from the jaws of hell and saved from his headlong, reckless ride down the trail of self-destruction. The boy who reaches out to save another is a caring friend and neighbor.