Publisher's Synopsis
This novel, set at the end of the 18th century, shows that cowboys were as much invented in Wales as in Wyoming. Running through this Welsh Western, with its personalities, adventure and incidents, the storyline has the strong cultural, emotional and human elements that make Westerns so appealing - by exploring how people act in the drama of their own lives. Written very much in the style of an old-fashioned Western, this tale of Welsh drovers taking a large herd of cattle from the 'wild west' of North Wales to London in the 1790s stakes a claim for these interesting characters to be the first cowboys. What happens in Westerns happened here to drovers on their cattle drive.
