Under a Long Sky: Women Drovers on the Chisholm Trail — Jack Payne Jones

In the spring of 1870, Jefferson Pickett left south Texas with a herd of2500 longhorns, moving north over the Chisholm Trail for Abilene, Kansas.A boy and thirteen women rode with him. This is the story of their struggles, harships, and heartbreaks doing the impossible under a long sky. As a captain in the Confederate Army, Pickett makes a promise to a dyingcolonel of the Union Army that puts him on a collision course with the colonel's widow, a desperate ranch owner about to lose everything. Pickett is thrown intoa no-win situation with only women and a boy to fight rusters, Indians, killers, and robbers.