BORN TO WESTERN SKIES is a Frontier Trilogy beginning in the years after the Civil War and reaches over many decades to the advent of the 1920's. The primary character, Cain Mayhew is seen in the course of his lifetime to wear many hats: a newly married young homesteader: a "top hand" cowboy out in California: a seasoned lawman in the southwest. In his twilight, as a citizen from another time and place," he watches as the life he has known is cast aside in the rush of a new century. The yearning for that which would not come again creates a serious inner struggle that threatens to derail the remaining years he has left to him.