Wagon Tongue Author:Elmer Kelton Isaac Jefford is one of the best horsebreakers on the Texas plains. But as a freed slave, a black man in a white man's world, the West is a proving ground... of his patience, his courage, his strength of will. Jefford works the Big Lonesome ranch for his former owner, Major Lytton, earning an honest wage for an honest day's labor. Then the Major... more » hires on Pete Runyan, a brash, unrepentant Confederate. Now on a cattle drive north, following a trail of banditry and blood, both men will have to decide whether to fight alone... or survive together.« less