With No Steps to Follow

Download or read book With No Steps to Follow written by David Allen Barton and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Henderson County, Tennessee, would not be a hard place to leave.' And so Rane McAllon is going to California With No Steps to Follow. After the tragic deaths of his family, levelheaded but wide-eyed seventeen-year-old Rane decides to fulfill his sister's dying wish and sets out for California. He leaves behind his childhood home, the only one he's ever known, and Tabitha, the only girl he's ever loved. Partnered with his steady mount, a bay horse named Puddin, he crosses the rugged terrain, battling the scorching heat of the sun and the unforgiving rain. After a run-in with Indians who steal his horse and leave him for dead, Rane joins a group of cattle herders and quickly learns how to become a drover. He befriends the cattle boss, Cotton, a war-weary man, and Tom-Tom, a stuttering young man out to prove himself. It's a hard life on the trail to California. A new obstacle awaits at every turn. Will Rane's courage and steadfast determination be enough to see him through the dangerous Indian Territory? Will he make it to California? Join first-time author David Allen Barton on this adventure to the wild frontier of the West and pave a new path With No Steps to Follow. David Allen Barton is a native Oklahoman with a passion for Western and Native American history that he brings to life in his debut novel.