A fifteen hundred mile horseback ride to win a bet, prove a point, to honor tradition?

Sounds like a tale right out of the Wild  West: a man, a horse, a grueling ride half way across the  country -- but this story is true.  It takes place in 1946 when an Oklahoma cattle rancher bets a Hollywood movie star that his grandson can ride from Guthrie, Oklahoma to Hollywood in fifty days or less, taking only what he can carry with him on his horse. 

Unfolding against the backdrop of a changing postwar America, ride along....back to a different time on a journey you won't soon forget.

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