Frank Carlson Library

Dusty is a good cutting horse. He keeps the cows seperated from their calves that have to be branded. When a reporter shows up to do a story on ranch life, Sampson, an old grey horse bites him on the shoulder.

When months went by with no rain, the grass on the cattle ranches dried up, and so did the water wells. The cattle had nothing to eat and no water to drink. The ranchers would be forced to sell their cattle. Indians could have done the rain dance. But cowboys? Could they perform a rain dance and make it rain? No way!

Sam Aldred and Butch go to Rye, Colorado to buy the ranch a chuck wagon. What they buy is very rickety. And Sitter, the mule they buy to pull it, is stubborn. When Sitter gets tired, he sits down like a dog. It takes to get back home.

When Sam and Josie, a little cowgirl see an early winter snowstorm approaching, they keep trying to get some cows and new calves into the corral before the storm hits. When the storm turns into a blizzard, Josie almost loses her life trying to save a baby calf.

When a young cowboy shows up at the Hatchet Ranch, Sam Aldred and the other ranch hands are shocked at the way he treats horses. And the when thebarn catches on fire, it's total chaos.