Book 2: The Owen Family Saga Young cavalryman Carl Owen returns from the Civil War to find the family farm destroyed, his favorite brother dead, food scarce, and his father determined to leave the Shenandoah Valley to build a cattle empire in Colorado Territory. Crossing the continent, Carl falls in love with his brother's fianc?e while set to wed another girl, but he might lose everything if the murderous thug Berto Acosta has his way. Carl battles...