Leaving Cheyenne

Texas. Even as it enters a new century, it is still a clean, lean, and hungry country-its passions quickly felt and quickly spent, its hopes as clear and forthright as the morning sun.

Bound inextricably to the land, its future is forged by young men and women like Gideon Fry, Johnny McCloud, and Molly Taylor. Gideon, a circumspect young man, is torn between his need to find his own way and the more formidable challenge of following in his rancher father's footsteps. His best friend Johnny t...