In The Broken Spur, author Gary Harmon weaves a fictionaltale of a way of life that evolved as it moved across the country.It illustrates events which defined the life of generations ofAmericans. His story is written in the same drawl that taints hisspeech to this day, and why not? The narrative is colored by thesounds and voices he grew up with. His family operated a largestockyard in southern Indiana where the language of cowboys,breeders, and trainers regaled the stories he loved to hear. Hisearly life was informed by the fact that he handled horses andcattle daily and rode those skills right onto the pages of TheBroken Spur. Amid the tall tales and bald-faced lies containedin these chapters is an honest picture of the hard realities oflife on the frontier.