A young Missourian joins the wagon caravans that carried trade goods across the prairie to Santa Fé, and tells of building, defending and travelling the trail through Indian country and desert. Alongside the dust, buffalo, river crossings and bargaining with Plains tribes runs a love story that keeps him looking back toward home.
A Kansas novelist’s tribute to the men who opened the great commercial road west, from the author of The Price of the Prairie. Download the free EPUB.