The Trail to Ogallala Author:Benjamin Capps This is a finely wrought, beautifully detailed day-by-day account of a cattle drive, one that started in Southern Texas and ended, three long, back-breaking months later, in Ogallala, Nebraska. Its hero is Billy Scott, expert young cowman, whose devotion to that strange, incalculable creature--a herd of cattle--sustains him through the desperat... more »e, man-killing weeks of the drive.
The struggle among the cowmen for leadership, the dangerous and costly river crossings, the sudden storms that terrorize the herd and demoralize the men, the hot, throat-parching days, the seemingly endless nights spent trying to control the spooky herd--all are described with a wonderful feeling for a way of life that is gone.« less