The return of the western classic that the Philadelphia Inquirer says proves that David Wagoner is the
"closest nowadays approximation of Mark Twain himself." It's 1852, and it's twenty-two-year-old Zeke Hunt's job is to herd his family's 28, insatiable, scissorbill hogs from Missouri to California, where the Hunts hope to start a new life. But after his family is massacred, he's forced to continue the perilous, wild, unpredictable...