The Santa Fe Trail

An extraordinary saga of cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier from the USA Today–bestselling author. They left Missouri and were headed to Santa Fe. Standing in their way was a parched desert, a land of outlaws and enemies—and one man's dangerous past. The Santa Fe Trail Gavin McCord and his brawling cowboys came to Missouri with a problem: 3,500 longhorns and not one buyer. That's where Gladstone Pitkin came in. A man with money and a dream of ranching in New Mexico, Pitkin bought McCord's cattle and hired his Texans for a trail drive from Independence to Santa Fe. But with an ill-fated gambler on the drive, the courageous, hardened riders weren't just a thousand brutal miles from Santa Fe—they were heading into a death trap.