Riding the Red Beast West: A Memory of a Last Frontier: Volume 2 of The Great Plains Trilogy

Riding the Red Beast West is part history of place, part oral history, and part lyric memoir that recounts a family's generational experiences and a boy's adolescence on the Kansas prairie in what might be seen as the waning years of the American frontier. With tongue in cheek the author throws his rope and saddle in the back of a wagon and invites the reader along on a journey across the Great Plains of the Dust Bowl years of the 1930's, the war years of the 1940's, and the restless 1950's...