Ted Strong in Montana: Or, with Lariat and Spur

A cattle drive against the clock. A blizzard howling in from the northwest. Ted Strong, seventeen years old and leader of the broncho boys, knows the storm will kill the herd if they don't reach Long Tom Ranch before it hits. With hundreds of Texas cattle and a handful of ranch hands depending on his judgment, Ted must read the sky, move the herd, and keep his nerve when the wind turns bitter and the first flakes begin to fall. A young woman named Stella Fosdick has joined their company, and her stubborn refusal to be left behind tests the rigid boundaries of frontier life. But the weather is only the first enemy. The Whipple gang rides the Montana margins, and word has reached Ted that they're watching the cattle, watching the ranch, watching for weakness. Edward C. Taylor writes with the kinetic punch of a dime novel at its best, trading in pure adventure rather than literary refinement, but there's real grit in his scenes of man and beast battling against a coming winter. This is frontier adventure in its purest form, stripped to its bones: leadership under pressure, loyalty between friends, and the open range as both beautiful and deadly. For readers who want to feel the chill of that wind and root for a young cowboy who knows how to ride, how to fight, and how to lead.