"There's a ranch in Texas hiring a crew to drive three thousand miles up the Chisholm Trail to Abilene. ... This collection of twenty-two poems captures the hard life and good times of cowboys on a cattle drive"--Flap p. 1 of dust jacket.

Howdy, Here is forty-some years gathering of my cowboy stories compiled in a book. It is illustrated by the famous Texas artist Mike Capron with a foreword by Fred Fellows. A paperback with 240 pages, 70-some thousand words, 91 pictures including old photographs and original Capron sketches. Great book for anyone who likes to read about the western lifestyle. Contrary to what some people think, the cowboy is not dead. You can't see cattle gathered...

An outbreak of hostilities with Comanches has disrupted the usual trail routes. But Mase Durst must get his cows from his Texas ranch to the railway up in Wichita, Kansas, or face losing his land, which the bank is fixing to foreclose on. He's forced to take his herd on a little-used route called the Red Trail--little used for good reasons. It's a tough trek: dangerous, narrow, and fraught with banditry. Along the way, Durst and his men face numerous...

Kate Doubleday leaves her life in the East behind when her mother dies and heads for the Western Rockies where she will meet her father for the first time. Barb Doubleday is a cold, hard and very powerful rancher with friends and enemies alike. Times are tough for cattlemen and now, with Doubleday constantly losing cattle to rustlers, there's about to be hell to pay. Doubleday and his top honchos, Tom Stone and Harry Van Horn, are determined to put...

In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter. In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush. In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody. In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...