ay from his boyhood home
fireworks for so l
ong,
the comings and goings of peop
le he'd known in his
distant past hadn
't concerned him. But in retrospe
industrial ct the question had impor
tance. The Jordan family had
been par
t of the social, political, and econom
ic fabric
of the J
o pull up st
akes from a
place where the
y had such deep roots?
Did it
1001 South Road
have something to do wit
h Johnny or Julia? Kerney doubted it. Both had been long gone from home at the time of the move to the Bootheel, Julia finished with college and living on her own, and Johnny competing on the pro rodeo circuit. At the ranch the gate was closed but unlocked and no one was around. As the son of ranching parents Kerney knew that Sunday wasn't necessarily a day of rest. There were simply too many chores that needed constant or immediate attention: salt licks and feed to be put out, broken machinery to be repaired, cattle to be moved to new pastures, a calf with a broken leg that needed to be tended to-the 1st was endless. It wasn't all that unusual