Log of a Cowboy

The trail to Montana isn't a road; it's a three-thousand-mile test of a man's soul. In the spring of 1882, young Tom Quirk leaves the Rio Grande to join the Circle Dot outfit on the ultimate gamble. He isn't chasing outlaws or silver; he's chasing the professional pride of a veteran drover. Under the orders of the legendary Don Lovell and the grit of foreman Jim Flood, Tom must help guide three thousand longhorns across an unforgiving continent, proving he has the iron to stand among men who judge a hand only by his rope and his word. But the "Long Trail" is a gauntlet of nature's fury. The outfit faces a relentless siege of midnight stampedes, treacherous river crossings, and the bone-deep terror of the ninety-mile dry drive-where water is a ghost and the sun is a killer. This is the unvarnished West, a technical war of endurance against a landscape that offers no mercy to the weak or the weary. As the Texas border fades and the Montana peaks loom, the stakes shift from a simple job to a struggle for survival. When the elements turn savage and the herd breaks, will Tom find the patience to outlast the wilderness? In the silence of the darkest night, he must decide if he has the character to master the trail, or if the open range will claim him before the journey's end.