The Green River trail

By Ralph Compton

Subjects: Fiction, westerns

Description: The horses came from California. The cattle came from Texas. And the men were coming North - chasing a dream that has a way of getting people killed.... THE GREEN RIVER TRAIL The year is 1853, For a handful of cowboys turned Gold Rush- era, it's time to go home - until Western legend Jim Bridger informs them of lush graze along the Green River in northern Utah. It's a territory rich in minerals, with the largest open-pit copper mine in the country. It's a place where a humble man could build a ranch that would be the envy of the frontier.... But with Indian trouble, law trouble along for the ride, these Texans are about to find out that to own a piece of paradise, you've got to pay for it in blood...