Bestselling author Ralph Compton brings the Old West back to life in this epic saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who paved the way toward the Great Frontier.

The horses came from California. The cattle came from Texas. And the men were coming North -- chasing a dream that had a way of getting people killed...

The year is 1853. For a handful of cowboys turned Gold Rushers, it's time to go home -- until Western legend Jim Bridger informs them of lush graze along the Green River in northern Utah. It's a territory rich in minerals, with the largest open-pit copper mine in the country. It's a place where a humble man could build a ranch that would be the envy of the frontier... But with Indian trouble, law trouble, Mormon trouble, cattle trouble, and woman trouble along for the ride, these Texans are about to find out that to own a piece of paradise, you've got to pay for it in blood...