HORNS

Jim Cole, a one armed ex-confederate colonel, and his young side-kick Ned Armstrong, battle the weather, Indians, buffalo hunters and the army to carve out a cattle empire in the high grass country of the Llano Estacado during the years of 1865 to 1875. At a time when no other white man would enter this Comanche stronghold, Cole and Armstrong made friends with the great Comanche chief, Quanah Parker and trailed five thousand head of Texas longhorns from central Texas to the headwaters of the Red River and established the Ceebara Ranch. Their peaceful coexistence with the Comanche was severed when the buffalo hunters invaded and began slaughtering the estimated fifty million head of buffalo, taking only the hide and tongue and allowing the rest to rot. Caught up in this war between the Indians, the hunters and the army, Cole and Armstrong and their Ceebara family fought valiantly to protect their land.
In the style of Louis L’Amour, McCathern weaves an exciting fictional story around historical facts that every lover of western fiction will enjoy.