Prosperity, Texas: A Script Story

A naive and oppressed Wyoming girl and her brother dream of a better life, but when the rich son of a Texas cattleman seduces the sodbuster's daughter with the promise of marriage then mysteriously disappears, it forces the siblings to begin a long and dangerous journey all the way down to Prosperity, Texas.

In the mid-1980's I was early in my career as a western writer and was driving down a country road outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming, when I saw the young couple. He was tall and thin and car...