When he was born his parents named him Alvin, but that was a good time ago. These days pretty much everybody just called him Cap. Maybe he wasn't quite as spry as he was back in his trapping days, but he could still sit a horse and his aim was almost as fine as ever. Most of the time, though, he was perfectly content to regale his granddaughter with tales of his exploits. But when someone kidnapped that lovely little girl. Cap wasn't about to leave her rescue up to somebody else. He wouldn't rest until she was home safe and sound. And until whoever took her learned just how much grit Cap still had in him.
Author
Frank Roderus wrote his first story—it was a western—when he was five. It was really awful, as might be expected, but his mother kept that typed and spell-checked short story tucked away until the day she died. Later, Frank became a newspaper reporter, thinking that books are written by authors which he most assuredly was not. He kept trying to write though, and eventually did it wrong enough to learn how to get it right. That first sale, a young adult novel published by Independence Press, was more than thirty years and a good many books ago. As a journalist, the Colorado Press Association awarded Frank Roderus their highest award, the Sweepstakes Award, for the best news story of 1980, and the Western Writers of America has twice named Frank recipient of their prestigious Spur Award. Frank passed away at age 73 in December 2015.
