In the late 1800s while on a cattle drive which takes him north from Texas, seventeen-year-old Wylie learns that it is no longer necessary to run from the father he never knew.
Examines life in the cow towns that developed in the nineteenth century, primarily in Kansas, to provide goods and services to cattlemen looking to sell their herds.
Two former Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, leave their Texas ranch to lead a cattle drive to Montana, encountering outlaws, Native Americans, and ex-loves along the way.
In 1777, under orders from George Washington, sixteen-year-old Captain Lorenzo Bannister drives 500 head of cattle east from San Antonio, Texas, to feed the Continental Army while enemies, old and new, plot against him.
Presents the adventures of a young cowboy during a cattle drive from Texas to the north. Information pages supply additional facts about life in the American West.
Presents a portrait of the range cook in the American West, describing the wagons these men used, the duties they performed, the food they prepared, and the impact they made on the cowboys they fed.
When young George McJunkin leaves his home in Texas and joins a cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail, he experiences the hardships of being a Black cowboy after the Civil War.
