The Bibliophile

Nathanial Goldsmith is the only son of the richest man in the Idaho territory Jessum Goldsmith the Silver Baron of the Western Lands as he is called in all the newspapers. But life in the late nineteenth-century American West weaves no magic spell for Nathanial who longs for the academic worlds his father has forced him to leave behind.To toughen him up Nathanials father has indentured him to a ranchman Cayuse Jem a large raw-boned taciturn man Nathanials father believes will help teach his son to become a man. Cut off from his books and the life he has always known Nathanial is not only forced to co-exist with Cayuse Jem but to truly get to know him. In doing so Nathanial discovers there is more to this silent horseman than meets the eye. And in the process Nathanial also learns a few things about life about human nature and about the differences in being a man and a boy...