Long Ride To Laramie: Beginnings

Amos Moss was only fourteen when he watched the young couple that were his best friends brutaly raped and murdered by six Union raiders. By the next day they were dead and the course of his life had begun. Drifting west with the railroad, he battled the Indians who would stop the Iron Horse, hunted buffalo with Bill Cody, and eventually ended up in Laramie. He had thought about becoming a cowhand and settling down. His future seemed set until he ran into a hired gun from Colorado. At the ag...