“Spurring that little mustang, I was hopin’ he had one more mile left in him. I heard a swish and something hit my right side. I could feel the cold shaft of an arrow against my skin and warm blood runnin’ down my ribs. An arrowhead was stickin’ out of the front of my shirt and I figured I’d taken it right through the lung.”

Our new release, The Buffalo Rock, is a change of pace. This historical fiction returns us to a time when conflicts were well defined and the battles were definitive. In the summer of 1923 Grant Collins takes a leave from his languishing career as a journalist in Saint Louis and travels to Montana to interview Tornado Tom Thomas, who is purported to be the last living rider of the Pony Express. Grant finds Tom at his Buffalo Rock Ranch, a sprawling enterprise which Tom has hewn from the Montana wilderness.

Tom, who has long harbored a desire to see his name in the annals of Western history, invites Grant into his home. 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. From Jim Bridger in the waning days of the fur trade to William S. Hart of the motion picture Western, Tornado Tom has known the best of the good guys and worst of the bad. 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.

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