A biography of George Saunders, a cowboy who endured cattle drives, stampedes, and skirmishes with Indians on the Texas frontier during and after the Civil War.
Gabriel Lynch, an African-American teenager who has moved with his mother from New York to live on his stepfather's Kansas homestead, brings serious trouble down upon himself and his family when he leaves the farm to join a group of cowboys who turn out to be a gang of criminals.
A collection of photographs, true stories, and little known facts about the everyday life of cowboys in the Old West; includes stories about Wild Bill Hickok, Annie Oakley, and Buffalo Bill Cody.
Excerpts from the diary of Yi Nan Zhang, a Beijing student who was sent to a Mongolian commune during the Cultural Revolution, which recount his experiences as a cowboy on the steppes.