Author: Dusty Richards, Ralph Compton
Narrator: Terry Evans
Abridged: 4 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 10/27/2003
Western Heritage Award and three-time Spur Award winner Dusty Richards authored over 100 acclaimed westerns. He spent his youth in Arizona and worked as a rancher, auctioneer, rodeo announcer, and TV anchor before he moved to writing full-time, going on to become the only author ever to win two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America in one year (2007). He received his third Spur Award for The Mustanger and the Lady, which was adapted into the film Painted Woman. An inductee of the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame, Dusty was also the recipient of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction and was honored by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2009. He was a member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the International Professional Rodeo Association, and served on the local PRCA rodeo board.
Ben McCullough is the main character has a small ranch in Texas and wants money for a nicer ranch and to marry a pretty young widow lady with three boys. Buys cattle to go to Abilene, KS. $2.50 a head from a crooked Mexican and can sell it for $40 a head in Abilene, KS. Has to get up a crew which tu......more
This one had a very different feel to it than most of the others. Ben McCullough has to hire a bunch of boys to do the cattle drive, along with an ex-solider who was in his unit. What you expect to happen does not and what happens is very unexpected. More sad than happy is all I will say, so that no......more
