WORLAND - A daydream on a long drive through the Arizona desert turned into a novel about second chances for cowboy, farrier and now author, Frank J. Schweighart.

Schweighart grew up working on the LU Ranch with his father Carl Schweighart. At the age of 13 his dad decided he was old enough to start shoeing the horses. "I seemed to have a knack for it," he said. It was a knack he turned into hi...