Many of the well-known lawmen of the old west were as crooked as the men they went after. The men portrayed in this book, while less well known today, were good and honorable men. They are men that, in today's confusing world, can be held up as role models. The book is well written, in a style crafted to attract the mainstream reader.

This is a book of poems dealing with life in the rural southwest of the United States. The poems touch on land, wildlife, weather and livestock but most of all, on the lives of the people of that part of the country.