Noah Landers, Welcome Home
Little Noah was shipped off the ranch to school at age thirteen. From school, he went on to fight in the War between the States, then worked at various jobs around the country until the mail finally caught up with him. It is then he learns that his father and the foreman were both killed in questionable accidents. It is now thirteen years later, and he returns home as a man to find things are not as he left them. So posing as an out-of-work cowboy, he joins the crew and proceeds to investigate. To keep his ranch and his heritage, he finds he must fight for what is his. He will need the help of friends, old and new.
-- Terry Heaton