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It’s 1871. Jonathan Calhoun lives an unfulfilled life working for his father’s magazine company in New York City and attending social events with his fiancée. Longing for one thrilling adventure before he settles down, he jumps at the job opportunity at a cattle ranch in Texas. He soon realizes this venture might be more than he expected---he rides herd with the cowboys on the Chisholm Trail and witnesses the full depth of the cattle drive and the rowdy cow towns in Kansas. Life eventually leads him to Montana and Wyoming where he gets involved in the Johnson County War and later back down to Oklahoma Territory in 1893 to ride in the Cherokee Outlet Land Run.
Jonathan rides the stage to Armadillo Flats with great anticipation, but when he arrives, he is disappointed and apprehensive. He sees the flat, dusty, lonely middle of nothing and worries about what he has gotten himself into. Then he gets to know the skillful cowboys on the ranch like Rattlesnake and Whiskey Bill and Cookie, the cook, and learns a new way of life on the wide-open land.
In his quest to find out who he wants to be, Jonathan lives some life changing experiences from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas to Montana and must decide which life is the most meaningful –one as a rich man with Rebecca Ann or the free life as a cowboy.
His life's challenge is whether to stay in the West or go back to his life and fiancée in New York.
New Book
India Finds a Home
Not understanding why her family left her on a country road, Dog tries to find her way back home. After a few days, she is picked up by animal control and taken to an animal shelter. Scared and sad, Dog gets a new name, India, and begins her life living in a cage at the shelter. She makes friends with Eddie, Pam, Connery, Piper, Moonstar, and Jed -- all living in cages and waiting for their forever homes. India desperately wishes to be adopted by a family as she spends a very long time in the shelter. Several people come to look over the dogs, but "No one wants a big brown dog."
One day, India and her friends are taken out to strange place. They meet other dogs -- one from a puppy mill, another an experimental lab, a pit bull fighter, one that lived chained outside, a blind dog. They all wonder, are they going somewhere? What is going to happen to them?
The many dogs are loaded onto a "Freedom flight" plane where they will fly to a new place and finally find their forever homes.
Follow India's long journey in her heartwarming story to find the little boy in her dreams; and learn about ways to help abused and shelter animals.
Although we don't know India's true story, she was a real dog living in a shelter for over nine years. I know because I walked her. Her dog friends were also real dogs that spent many years at the shelter. They finally got home.
Jonathan rides the stage to Armadillo Flats with great anticipation, but when he arrives, he is disappointed and apprehensive. He sees the flat, dusty, lonely middle of nothing and worries about what he has gotten himself into. Then he gets to know the skillful cowboys on the ranch like Rattlesnake and Whiskey Bill and Cookie, the cook, and learns a new way of life on the wide-open land.
In his quest to find out who he wants to be, Jonathan lives some life changing experiences from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas to Montana and must decide which life is the most meaningful –one as a rich man with Rebecca Ann or the free life as a cowboy.
His life's challenge is whether to stay in the West or go back to his life and fiancée in New York.
New Book
India Finds a Home
Not understanding why her family left her on a country road, Dog tries to find her way back home. After a few days, she is picked up by animal control and taken to an animal shelter. Scared and sad, Dog gets a new name, India, and begins her life living in a cage at the shelter. She makes friends with Eddie, Pam, Connery, Piper, Moonstar, and Jed -- all living in cages and waiting for their forever homes. India desperately wishes to be adopted by a family as she spends a very long time in the shelter. Several people come to look over the dogs, but "No one wants a big brown dog."
One day, India and her friends are taken out to strange place. They meet other dogs -- one from a puppy mill, another an experimental lab, a pit bull fighter, one that lived chained outside, a blind dog. They all wonder, are they going somewhere? What is going to happen to them?
The many dogs are loaded onto a "Freedom flight" plane where they will fly to a new place and finally find their forever homes.
Follow India's long journey in her heartwarming story to find the little boy in her dreams; and learn about ways to help abused and shelter animals.
Although we don't know India's true story, she was a real dog living in a shelter for over nine years. I know because I walked her. Her dog friends were also real dogs that spent many years at the shelter. They finally got home.
