No, The Horse (Don't Worry, I Won't Shoot You)
A Rawlins Saga NovelBy Mike Richwine
Length8h 11m
About this audiobook
No, The Horse (Don’t Worry, I Won’t Shoot You) follows the lives of Chester “Chet” Rawlins and Mary Ellen as they build a future in the turbulent decades following World War II. From the garages of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to the ranch lands and oil fields of Texas, the Rawlins family navigates ambition, risk, and the unpredictable forces of business and family life.
At the center of the story is the partnership between Chet and Mary Ellen—two strong-willed people whose marriage must carry the weight of opportunity, loyalty, and the consequences of bold decisions.
Blending racing history, ranch life, and the rise of the postwar oil economy, this novel captures a time when fortunes were made by those willing to live a little closer to the edge.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction
Length8 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 9, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening credits
83Life at Rice Institute
2Prologue
84The Letter Reaches Kilgore
3Part 1: Speedway 1960
85Mary Ellen’s Spring Push
4Chapter 1:
86Chester’s Restlessness Grows
5May 1960—Speedway, Indiana
87Houston — Late Afternoon, Spring 1944
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6Chapter 2:
88The Payroll Run
7May 1960
89Return to the Yard
8Qualifying Week
90Wedding
9Race Eve
91Bremond, Texas – June 1944
10Race Day
92Rawlins Truck Lines—A New Order
11The Snake Pit and the Infield
93News on the Wire
12Chapter 3:
94V-E Day May 8, 1945
13The Collapse: The Final Souvenir Edition
95But the Pacific Remained
14Part 2: Texas Roots, 1935—1941
96August 1945 — A New Kind of News
15Chapter 4:
97V-J Day
16Summer 1935 — Thirteen-Year-Old Chester Clayton Rawlins
98A New Era at Rawlins
17Chapter 5:
99Part 4: Wartime Order, Postwar Boom 1946—1950
18Beginnings: First Roads, First Risks
1001946 Rawlins Expands
19Chapter 6:
101The Boom Starts Quietly
20Boom Years
102New Freight, New Demands
21The Boom Years (1935–1950)
103The Office Can’t Hold It All
22A Man Has to Outrun His Problems
104Mary Ellen Steps into Leadership
23Learning to Move Faster
105After the War, Before the Rush
24Chapter 7:
106River Oaks
25Chet Meets Mary Ellen
1071948: A new home and growing family
26Chapter 8:
108Moving Out of TJ’s House
27Bremond and Madisonville
109Early Pregnancy and Office Reactions
28Mary Ellen’s First Letter to Chet
110Mary Ellen Brings Junior into Rawlins Transport
29Chet’s Reply
111The Credit Union Proposal
30Mary Ellen’s Second Letter
112Junior Sets Up the Credit Union
31Golden Stagecoach
113New Headquarters Near Hobby Airport
32The Journey into the Thicket
114Dreams and Doubts—50’s
33War on the Horizon
115Mary Ellen and the Matter of Being Paid
34Oil, oil, oil
116The Baby, the New House, and the Strain at Rawlins Transport
35November 1939
117The wig
36Madisonville, Texas
118No, the Horse
37The Dance-Chester
119“No—The horse.”
38The Winter of Letters
120Back at Rawlins Trucking
39The Weeks of January
121Storm That Changed Him
40Chester’s World Tightens
122Chester’s Porch — 1952 (Six Years After the War)
41Stars Over the Coliseum
123Part 5: The Racing Years, 1950—1959
42The Singing Cowboy
124Dallas Dirt Track Nights
43Rice After Dark
125TJ Rawlins and the Keeping of Things
44Part 3: Wartime, 1941—1945
126New Business
45Chapter 9:
127The Rawlins Pythons
46Summoned to Washington
128Chapter 17
47The Pan Am Flight
129The Corvette Arrangement—1957
48Washington
130The SR-2 at Henderson Field
49The Confidential Directive
131The first warmup
50The Midnight Haul
132Race day
51The Offer from Pan Am
133The Girl in the Stands
52Decisions Made
134At the track
53A Week Earlier Rawlins Home Office, March Evening
135Chapter 18:
54The Quiet Before
1361959—SCCA Circuit, Texas
55Chapter 10:
137A Private Conversation
56The Offer
138Houston Rodeo — Grand Entry 1959
57Shelby Finds Chester Working a Stubborn Airplane Engine
1391959
58The Complication Shelby Doesn’t Know
140Part 6: Indianapolis, 1960—1963
59Chester, TJ, and March — The Confrontation
141Chapter 19:
60Shelby Gets the Word to Back Off
142Speedway—1960
61Mary Ellen’s Quiet Fear
143Herb Porter
62Bremond, Texas
144Practice Week
63A Conversation at the Yard
145Mary Ellen Arrives
64Mary Ellen’s Unsent Letter
146A Visit from Lloyd Ruby
65Pressure from Town
147The Rookie Test
66Friends Leaving
148Qualifying Weeks
67The Breaking Point
149Chapter 20:
68Almost Enlisting
150Speedway—1961: Wayne at the track
69Shelby Opens a Back Door
151Chapter 21:
70Chapter 11
152Pine Chapel (Wayne Angle, 1961, Early June)
71Burma Hump
153The Funeral Behind Benavides’ Store
72Into the White: January 1942
154Wayne’s final letter
73The Sky that Never Forgives
155Mary Ellen Makes the Call
74China
156Schooling
75Letter Home
157Chapter 22:
76Back Home—January 1943
158Speedway— 1962
77First Things First
159Speedway— 1963
78The Proposal
160Mary Ellen-Back Stretch, 1963
79TJ’s Reaction
161Herb Porter—Night After
80A Weekend in Bremond
162Paperboy
81Chester Steps into His Role
163Epilogue: Summer 1963—Madisonville Ranch
82March 12, 1944
164About the author
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