title: Texas Stories: Tales of Cowboys, Ranchers, and Assorted Characters
author: Craig Savoye
description: Craig Savoye was born in New Jersey and raised in California and Connecticut. He has had careers in journalism, government, business, public relations, and academia. He was a staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor in Boston, a corporate relations manager for a mainframe computer company in California's Silicon Valley, a public information officer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and an assistant professor of mass communication at Principia College in Eslah, Illinois. He lives with his family in Saint Louis.
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  Keeping the Cowboy
  
  
  Blackwater Ranch Book Five
  
  
  By Mandi Blake
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2021 Mandi Blake
  
  
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