Utah Carol – Paperback

The Story Behind the Ballad – by J.L. Workman

Everyone who grew up on the old cowboy songs knows how “Utah Carol” ends. Nobody ever told how it began. Jeremiah Carroll and Abraham Clancy never meant to ride with outlaws. They fell into that life trying to survive, and one morning they simply rode away from it, looking for honest work. They found it on the Ames Ranch, under a hard but fair boss named Eli Ames, and with a stubborn little girl named Lenore who decided the quiet cowboy called “Utah” was the most interesting man alive. Years later, around a campfire on a cattle drive with a storm rolling in, Abe tells the story of the partner he rode beside, the girl who followed him everywhere, and the red blanket that tied their lives together. A story of friendship, loyalty, and the kind of love a man never says out loud, inspired by the traditional cowboy ballad first printed in 1893 and sung around campfires ever since