The book that launched the classic Howard Hawks western starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift.- HALF A CATTLE EMPIRE-for a son ...Now Dunson turned that blunt gaze on Tess. He let the gray eyes run slowly over her shoulders and breasts and hips... "What would you say, Tess Millay, if I offered you half of an empire in exchange for a son?" "...Your son?" "Yes." The great State of Texas is dying...herds of cattle run wild...an uncharted trail leads to nowhere-but Colonel Dunson would fight on to save his empire, just so long as he had this woman by his side. Here is a Western that has been cut out of the lonely stretches of Texas, patterned from the lives of great giants of the land. A smashing story that pounds like the drumming hoofs of 10,000 cattle-a yarn that will hold you through the 100-day drive along the historic Chisholm Trail.