The Wide Clear Sky

Nathan Dale is a cavalry sergeant demobilized after the Civil War.
He and his army buddies sign on as Indian fighters for a wagon train from Independence, Missouri to San Francisco. He has spent four years of his life in the army and knows nothing about women. The wagon master is killed and young Nathan finds himself in charge of a thirty-wagon train, Indians he can handle but women baffle him completely.

Keywords: California, poker, horses, cavalry, wagons, indians