Julesburg Public Library

The wild ones. Into the 1870s West comes a family of New York City stage performers: a widowed father, his son, and a daughter whose beauty and singing voice could make the most hardened frontiersmen weep. But the Fontaine family is unprepared for the hardship they endure across the Mississippi. Their only hope: If the young Lillian can sing her way to success in the rising boomtown called Denver. El Paso. It is 1881. El Paso, Texas, is at a crossroads....

The ranchers are forced to sell out their herds when months go by without any rain; however, one night the cowboys decide to do a rain dance in fun, and it works.