A novel set in Yellowstone country during the great Montana fires of 2000, The Ballad of the Drover, is the story of an Australian movie star searching for his biological father-a real American cowboy. Will a native Montanan woman guide him in his journey? How does an ancient Irish poem about St. Patrick unite two lost souls who meet in a rural Montana bar at the crossroads of their lives? What clues do a Nelson Story 1866 cattle drive from Texas to a gold camp in Montana Territory and a Crow Indian legend about a woman named Evening Star hold for the man from Down Under?