The Reluctant Cattleman is a wonderful western story of coming of age, finding love, and becoming a man in 1887. He was a bookkeeper for the ranch, the horse training facility and the butcher shop in town. To say the least he was smart when it came to numbers. But, the day E.M. Thatcher arrived to write some stories about the first wagon train that came to settle Prescott, they had referred her to Hannah and Will Colter. When she arrived they were expecting a man. Since they had five grown boys in the house, they put Ellie Mae in the cabin. She is clumsy so Sam walks her to and from the cabin to the main house to eat. His Papa asked that Sam keep an eye on Ellie Mae. He had fallen in love the first day he helped her off her horse. The more they are together and the more they learn about each other Ellie Mae gets that same feeling. Sam even writes to her father to ask if he can court her. Ellie Mae asks that Hannah tells her about coming to Prescott on the wagon train that started the town. When the children hear she was married to a doctor they had not ever heard of that. He died and she went to work at the boarding house. That is when she met Will that had came with a bunch of cowboys to find a place in Arizona to build a ranch. They built homes and barns and whatever buildings they needed in the daytime and spent the night by firelight. They even had to fight off Indians one time. But the big ranch was like a family compound and they referred to each other as family. Once the articles are finished, Elle Mae is asked by her editor to move back to town to work on other stories.
Ellie Mae’s articles are so good they ask her to do a story on the train. There are rumors about the train and the contract they signed to build the railroad had not been completed as they had not built a round house at Prescott as promised. Elle Mae is to ride to Seligman on Wednesday and back to Prescott on Thursday so she can ask the riders what they think of the train. To go to Seligman you ride backwards. Then you ride forward on the trip back to Prescott. James works on the train and they want her to interview him. He is altogether different from Sam so he asks Hannah to go with Ellie Mae on the train. Elle Mae gets a great story from the trip and when she writes the story she makes the hero Hannah where she stepped up and spoke her mind. The stories she got from the train ride lasted for several newspapers. Not long after that her family came to the Independence Day activities in Prescott. Her parents talked privately with Sam to see if he deserved their blessings to marry Elle Mae. Her father said he would write the answer to Sam. When weeks go by, Sam is worried. That is when Elle Mae gets a horrifying letter from a neighbor of her parents that changes Ellie Mae and her brother Grady’s lives forever. Sam steps up and with his Papa’s help they make arrangements to move both of them back to the ranch. A very heartfelt story that shows life’s difficult times and the changes young adults have to go through growing into the people they need to be to face life head on.
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