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Learn moreHe was a greenhorn but didn't know it.
When Bruce Cowan takes his family and flees Boston to homestead out west, he figured the journey to California to be long but safe. Their first day out reveals how wrong he is and the perilous dangers of the Santa Fe Trail.
It would have been a massacre but for Trent and Pat MacLeod.
Trent favors a Sharps .50 caliber buffalo rifle, while his younger brother Pat packs two Texas Navy Colts. They both prove deadly and a force to be reckoned with.
The Cowans and the McLeod brothers forge a bond those first few days, sustained in part by Trent's attraction to the eighteen-year-old Becky Cowan. His overtures are not returned.
The brothers join the Cowans on their hazardous journey west as they face harsh conditions, bandits, and Indian attacks. Will their oxen survive the trip? Will the man Bruce Cowan is fleeing catch up with them? Should they take the Cimarron Cutoff through the desert or stick with the Santa Fe Trail through the mountains?
Even with the help of Trent and Pat, the Cowans are forced to learn quickly to survive the rigorous demands of the Wild West.
Russell J. Atwater grew up in the Midwest enjoying a steady diet of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and The Rifleman. A lover of Western genre fiction, his passion is to write stories that celebrate life in the old west with the old-fashioned values of honesty, loyalty, and righteousness.
Scott Miller is a former radio personality and television news anchor and reporter. In addition to thousands of commercial voice-overs, Scott has produced and narrated television specials and has emceed hundreds of live events. Scott has narrated more than eighty audiobooks in many different genres. Originally from Iowa, he has lived all over the US. He currently lives in beautiful Costa Rica, where he enjoys tropical weather and sunny beaches year-round.