Stir Up The Dust

Major Darius Urquhart, Texan, had fought on the losing side in the Civil War, his father and brother had been killed, and his home burnt to the ground. All that was left was the neglected land and half-wild cattle. But Darius still had the friendship of his ex-Sergeant, Dix Corbillat; his old neighbor, Gault Madison; and his Negro cook, Albumen White. So he joined with them in a desperate scheme to drive Texas cattle over the hundreds of miles of danger-ridden country into Kansas. And he took along Jennifer, who was half-Irish, half-Indian. She was the only woman to go on the Abilene trek, but she saved the entire herd from disaster on that amazing and historic journey.