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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.
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.
