Jack Schaefer

To Carl, for my first son, my first bookHe rode into our valley in the summer of'89.1 was a kid then, barely topping the backboard of father's old chuck-wagon. I was on the upper rail of our small corral, soaking in the late afternoon sun, when I saw him far down the road where it swung into the...

Introductory NoteThe people in this story lived in the West of North America in the last century. The first Europeans in North Americasettled on the East Coast.Slowly, people moved to the West. They found the large, empty, grass plains. These plains were very good for breeding cattle VThe American...