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Written by Ralph Compton - Audio book performed by Jim Gough - Abridged Fiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Otis Audio (January 2000)

The horses came from California, the cattle came from Texas and the men were coming North--chasing a dream that had a way of getting people killed.…

Ralph Compton brings a violent and magnificent time in American history to life in an extraordinary series based on the history-blazing trail drives.

The year was 1853. For a handful of cowboys turned California gold rushers, it was time to go home. Then Lonnie Kilgore and his fellow Texans met Western legend and former mountain man Jim Bridger, who told them of a lush range waiting to be claimed in Northern Utah. Now, the Texans have purchased land on the Green River and come to San Antonio to gather up some longhorns. But with Indian trouble, law trouble, and woman trouble along for the ride, the cowboys are finding out the truth about this paradise: to live on land you bought and paid for, you have to be willing to die...