Ron Kalish

A tale of friendship and survival set during the 1860s focuses on a roguish group of runaways living by their wits and natural instinct. Two of them are complimentary opposites: Drew is a good boy from God-fearing stock in Ohio, out West to evade the draft, and Jake is a scruffy scoundrel-a saddle tramp not above an occasional larceny. Along the trail they encounter a variety of varmints and renegades. And eventually, they find themselves older and...