A fictionalized account of the adventurous 1909 journey of nine-year-old Bud Abernathy and his five-year-old brother, Temp, who traveled alone, mostly on horseback, from their home in Oklahoma
to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and back again, crossing the vast, desertlike no-man's-land in the Texas Panhandle known as the caprock.Fictional account of the true journey of Bud and Temp Abernathy,
aged nine and five, who crossed the caprock, a vast desert, in 1909 in order to reach their father's old ranch and see the Wild West along the way.