Arty's Long Day (The Adventures of Arty Anderson) Book 4

Set in post-Civil War Texas, the Arty Anderson series follows the lives of an eleven-year-old boy and his recently widowed mother as they leave their home in Ohio and move to a Texas cattle ranch. Arty and his mother travel by stagecoach to care for the ranch that his recently deceased father had purchased. Arty comes face to face with a killer mountain lion, discovers a body, gets caught in a flash flood, goes toe-to-toe with cattle rustlers and goes on the ultimate trip...a cattle drive!