Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges
1898
Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges
1898
The Wyoming cattle ranges in winter. A brother and sister. Rustlers circling their ranch. That's the setup. Edward Sylvester Ellis knows exactly what he's doing: he's writing a rousing adventure about the Whitney family, and from the first page, you can feel the frontier cold creeping in. When Fred Whitney returns home with his friend Monteith Sterry on a winter evening, the boys don't know that their innocent skating trip across the frozen landscape will put them face to face with a black bear and wolves howling in the darkness. But this is the American West in its rawest form, where joy and danger share the same trail. The rustlers are closing in, threatening everything the Whitney family has built, and the carefree days of youth are numbered. This is a book that understands what made boys' adventure novels so irresistible in the late 19th century: real stakes, real courage, and a frontier that doesn't forgive mistakes.
