Sam Carkhuff hadn’t been inside Topeka High since he
graduated from there 20 years ago. He
returned last week from his home in Denver to talk to students about being an
author and about his first book which recalls his experiences working on a
Colorado ranch. The book is titled Ranch
Race. “I use to tell this story, the
ranch race, to the kids around the camp fire at night. Someone said I should write that story down,
so I did,” said Carkhuff.
Carkhuff graduated from Kansas State University with a
degree in computer science. He left that
field for five years to work on the ranch.
He experienced a lot during that time, enough that he has five other
books in progress. All of them deal with
ranch life and many have the same characters.
“It’s an exciting time, it’s been fun,” said Carkhuff.
