About the Book.

Some stories you read. This one you ride along with.

Saddle up for Along the Tumbleweed Trail — the fictional memoir of Chris Perry, a boy from a Northern San Diego County ranch who grew up to spend fifty years chasing the sound of a cowboy song.

Discover the moment a hand-me-down guitar cracked open a whole world. Experience the mentor who took a rough kid and made him a real musician. Ride shotgun as Chris joins the Sierra Cowboys and builds a career the hard way — writing, performing, recording, surviving the music business alongside the bandmates who became his family. At the peak of that career, Chris answers his country's call to serve in World War II and defend democracy - trading the stage for the front lines before finding his way back to the trail.

This isn't just one man's story. It's a front-row seat to the Golden Years of Western music and film, where fictional lives brush up against the real legends who shaped the genre.

And it's more than nostalgia. Chris carries the lessons of the Great Depression with him — a Roosevelt Democrat's eye on the century's biggest moments, filtered through a life spent on stages and back roads. History, told the way it actually gets passed down: through the people who lived it.

If you love Western music, American history, or a good old-fashioned coming-of-age story with dust on its boots — this is your trail.

Come on the journey. Chris has been waiting fifty years to tell you about it.