While living on his family's ranch in Wyoming where he hopes to someday be a cowboy, Ryan faces conflicts with his older brother who becomes involved in a militia movement.
For one year, thirteen-year-old Timmy records in her journal the changes she sees in the natural world and her family's activities on their Wyoming ranch as they fight to save it from financial ruin.
Photographs and text tell the story of twelve-year-old Cass as he builds his own flock starting with orphaned lambs, and helps out on his family's sheep ranch in Wyoming.
Contains a collection of letters written by the author to a former employer in Denver over the course of several years, in which she describes her frontier life homesteading in Burnt Fork, Wyoming.
Text and photographs follow ten-year-old Justin Whitlock through the summer when he and his older brother Corey helped their father with an important cowboy job on their Wyoming ranch.