Download or read book Stir Up the Dust written by William Colt MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lonely Texan had fought on the losing side in the Civil War. His father and brother had been killed, and his home had been burned to the ground. All that remained was the neglected land and the half-wild cattle. He had friends who joined him in a desperate scheme to drive Texas cattle over the hundreds of miles of perilous Kansas country. Stir Up the Dust is the whiplash story of that cattle drive – and the opening of the Abilene Trail. William Colt MacDonald was an author of nearly seventy Western novels, and many short stories. Between the years of 1932 and 1945, dozens of films were based on MacDonald’s Western fiction -- many of them starring popular Hollywood cowboy actor Tim McCoy.