An action and adventure western, given 5 Stars by Readers Choice, the historical fictional novel, 'They Rode From Round Rock' by Michael Loyd Story, is considered by many to be on par with giants as Larry McMurtry, Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey and Elmore Leonard. A rousing tale of cattlemen, cattle detectives and cattle thieves, that takes place in post civil war Texas. Most of the action takes place around the small town of Round Rock, near Austin and in the rugged hill country just west of these locales.The main characters Emmitt McGowan, Miss. Verna Gallager and Ben Maxwell face a murderous gang of cattle thieves out to establish the first grand organized crime syndicate.Using others stolen cattle as their bases. These bad men are ruthless, cunning and heartless in their efforts to achieve their goals including threatening the lives of McGowan and the woman he loves Verna Gallager and his associate detective Ben Maxwell.Led by Todd Jenkins, a near double for Emmitt McGowan, and his evil, soulless gunman, Calley Longman, whom inadvertently drag McGowan into their evil mess. First with a failed bushwhacking by a disgruntled cattleman who mistaken McGowan for Jenkins and later by the transparent lies and subterfuge and attempted murder by Calley Longman.Throw in McGowan's odd friendship with the noted Texas gunman John Wesley Hardin and McGowan's encounters with the Sam Bass outlaw gang and their gunfight with the Texas Rangers in Round Rock, the reader of this tale experiences twists and turns providing hours of enjoyment and immersion into the roughness of post civil war Texas, the hardships and dangers of the burgeoning cattle industry and of the men, both cattlemen, range detectives and cattle rustlers and their desires, wants and the love they find among all of that.