The Free Range

The American West of the early 1900s, where the open range is shrinking and the old ways are dying. Bud Larkin wants to bring his sheep north to graze, but Beef Bissell rules that range with cattle and contempt. Sheep, to Bissell, are the enemy. They're what nomads bring, what destroys the land, what decent ranching folks don't touch. But Larkin isn't backing down. He's got legal claim and quiet resolve, and he walks into the Bar T ranch to assert both. What he doesn't expect is Juliet Bissell, the cattleman's daughter, whose presence complicates everything. The West in this novel isn't just frontier territory. It's the space where personal honor, economic survival, and romantic feeling collide. This is a story for readers who want their Westerns with some teeth. The cattle-sheep conflict was real, violent, and largely forgotten. Sullivan writes it with sympathy for both sides and gives us a protagonist who's stubborn without being foolish, conflicted without being weak.