From Hondo to Big Ike

Glenshannon’s spread was one of the biggest in Texas—or anywhere.... One of Glenshannon’s cowboys, an amateur geographer, once observed that it would take a man on a good horse a lot of breakfasts to circle it. Nobody ever tried. But there were those, especially in the early days, who did try to invade Glenshannon’s domain. Indians. Mexicans. Bandits. Rustlers. All now dead and buried or banished. Perhaps like his character Shannon Glenshannon in 2005’s Riders to Moon Rock, there