Product Description

In the summer of 1923 Grant Collins leaves his languishing career as a journalist and travels to Montana to interview Tornado Tom, the last living rider of the Pony Express. Tom invites Grant to stay at his Buffalo Rock Ranch, a sprawling enterprise which Tom has hewn from the Montana wilderness. As the summer unfolds, Tom tells Grant of his seventy year odyssey from a Spartan childhood among the Blackfeet Indians to his life of baronial comfort. At The Buffalo Rock, Grant experiences the mise-en-scene of Tom's life, as he reluctantly learns to ride, shoot and fight. It is love at first sight when Grant meets Dixie, Tom's great-niece who is also visiting from Saint Louis. Among stolen moments of romance, Grant chronicles the life and times of the erstwhile frontiersman. When Buck Horton, a ranch hand with a penchant for violence, disputes Grant's claim to the heart of Dixie, the young lovers soon find themselves galloping headlong on the hooves of hell into the jaws of a deadly triangle.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #184670 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 622 pages

Customer Reviews

Buffalo Rock
What a wonderful ride through the days of the wild West. A very relaxing read. I really enjoyed how the author tied in real historical events with the travels of this Pony Express Rider. Being that I am familiar with the area where the events took place, I could almost feel myself traveling back in time. I would highly recommend this book for this Summer's reading list.

The Buffalo Rock
From the first page I could not put this book down. The author draws you into the story as though you were right there at the Buffalo Rock. The colloquial language, colorful descriptions, poignant dialogue bring these characters to life. The book has action, history, humor and romance. I highly recommend this book and am eagerly awaiting the next novel by this author.

History, intrigue, passion - all interwoven in a brilliant western
The Buffalo Rock (A Novel)
Although an avid reader, I have avoided westerns for a number of years, but this was a real treat. All of that meaningful history about our western past, replete with a myriad of famous (sometimes infamous) personalities, is creatively tied into a suspenseful and passionate story. This incipient and obviously well-read author has combined several fascinating events with a smattering of cohesive fiction - producing an award-winning novel... and it was his first publication. Wow, imagine what's to come!