Michael Lee is a contributing roundtable correspondent for Western Writers of America’s Roundup Magazine and Saddlebag Dispatches. His fresh voice paints detail and gives historical authenticity to a frontier-life coming of age saga. Del Rio’s characters move off of the page in three-dimensional images fighting nature, human frailty, disease, Indians, and human greed on the Oregon Trail, growing bigger and stronger as they fight their way west. The past relentlessly pursues them, clashing in violence, until it ends in a bloody climax.