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To Tame a Land
First published 1955
Orphaned Rye Tyler grows up in the cattle-drive era of the post-Civil-War West under the guidance of an experienced frontiersman. Trail work, horses, firearms and hard travel become his education, and each new settlement shows him a different version of a country where opportunity and violence often arrive together.
As Rye matures, the skills that once helped a boy survive become the foundation of an adult reputation. The novel follows the making of a western professional rather than a single adventure, showing how mentorship, experience and repeated choices shape a man who must eventually decide what kind of life he wants beyond simply being able to endure the frontier.
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