There was a time when America was younger-when the West was as rugged as the souls of the men and women who set out to tame her. The good and the bad, the brave and the weak, the comical and the pitiful-some lived and died without so much as a tombstone or a whisper on the wind to mark their passing, and others…well, they became legends. Rough Country is fifteen stories that speak of that odyssey towards sundown and the kind of people who went west of the Mississippi, to the frontier and beyond, seeking.
Includes the 2014 WWA Spur Award Finalist, “Chouteau’s Crossing” by McKendree Long.