Title: The last of the roundup boys
Description: In 1885 in Kansas, seventeen-year-old Tom, the son of a poor farmer, is hired as a cowboy on a cattle ranch and faces the challenges of both herding work and a forbidden romance with sixteen-year-old Evie, the ranch owner's independently-minded daughter.
Subjects: Coming of age, Cowboys, Fiction, History, Ranch life, Sex role
Places: Kansas
Time periods: 19th century