Brave Cowboy

In the mid-1950s, Jack Burns remains a loner, a man out of time. He stubbornly roams New Mexico on horseback, lives off odd jobs and sleeps under the stars. When he learns that his friend Paul has just been jailed for refusing to comply with his military obligations, Jack decides to get himself arrested. Finding Paul in prison and escaping together is his plan. But he had not imagined that his escape would trigger a manhunt of such magnitude. No one can impede the march of order and progress with impunity.

Brave Cowboy is a masterpiece by Edward Abbey, the rebellious and iconic author of the American West, who reveals with this wild escape the price to be paid for freedom.