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ISBN: 978-1-68313-027-7
234 pages


$15.97 softcover


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The River of Cattle

The Will & Buck Series: Book One
For Readers 8 - 12 | Grades 3 - 7
by award-winning author

Alice V. Brock

Will Whitaker's eleventh summer is one thrill after another.

A cattle drive with a famous Texas Ranger, a Comanche trying to steal his horse, a buffalo stampede, thirst-maddened cattle crossing eighty miles of alkali desert to a dangerous ford on the Pecos River—it's almost more than Will can endure. He gets to work as a drover, riding his best friend Buck, a big buckskin stallion, until he is captured by a vicious Comanche war chief. And only his worst enemy can rescue him.
      Two Feathers—half white, half Comanche—runs away from his tribe when he learns his uncle killed his white father. He sees Will's horse and knows he is destined to have him, this great warrior's horse. Camping alone and following the winding River of Cattle across the High Plains of West Texas, he tries again and again to take him. Will foils him every time, but Two Feathers comes too close and is captured by the drovers.
      The two boys, both fighting the grief of their mother's deaths, both without a true home, face death and danger separately, but eventually they must learn acceptance of each other's differences or their mutual mistrust could lead them to disaster on the brutal Texas-New Mexico frontier.

      Will they become brothers or mortal enemies?

Praise for The River of Cattle

"A compelling and triumphant introduction to the colorful bygone era of cattle drives. Alice Brock entertainingly weaves fact and fiction into a dual tale of high drama, where diversity and friendship must meet head-on to determine who survives."
Tim Lewis, Director of the Writing Academy at West Texas A&M University, author of Forever Friday

"Two boys, one a drover on a cattle drive, and one a Comanche runaway, tackle wilderness adventures in The River of Cattle. Each is mourning the loss of his mother. Will rides his handsome buckskin stallion named Buck. Two Feathers rides Old Pony and camps alone to prove he is a fierce warrior.
      "When Two Feathers decides Buck should belong to him, the two boys wrestle and wrangle. But with Yellow Hawk chasing Two Feathers, cowboy and Comanche join together to survive the pursuit and try to figure out each other's lifestyle.
      "A rough riding tale in true Wild West fashion, The River of Cattle puts the reader in a saddle and gallops away with him!"
— Doris Fisher, author of Army Camels, Jackson Sundown, and Odd Day, Even Day, Half Day


Alice V. Brock learned to love Western books as a child when her father brought home a Louis L'Amour paperback and she fell in love with the cowboys galloping through those pages. Mr. L'Amour's books brought the West alive to her. The history of Texas and New Mexico are full of stories of those times. Her wish is to bring them alive for kids of today.
      Her chance to see cowboys in action came when she married and moved to her husband's family ranch in Iola, Texas. Now, she and her son operate the ranch with the assistance of her two granddaughters, AKA The Tumbleweed Club. These two cowgirls keep things lively on the Brock Ranch.
      The first book in the award winning Will and Buck Series, River of Cattle, and the second book, Mystery on the Pecos, have both earned Western Fictioneer's Peacemaker Awards and Will Rogers Medallion Awards.

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