In Tilden, Mormon polygamists, native Shoshoni and the last of the rangeland herdsmen join immigrants from Japan, Italy, Mexico, Russia, and Germany, all unconsciously trailing in the wake of the Bonneville Flood through nineteenth and twentieth century Idaho.
In Doug Bowman's Houston, trail boss John Calloway and two of his faithful companions have been robbed and shot to pieces in a Kansas gully by the same five drovers who had helped them deliver a large heard of cattle to the rails.
Those Who Dared is a story of a young girl being ripped away from everything she knows to travel west with her parents and with their belongings to the promised land of California.
