Set amid the exquisitely rendered landscape of the Rocky Mountains, LAST YEAR'S RIVER is the compelling story of the romance between a young New York debutante, sent off to Wyoming to bear a child, and a cowhand recently returned to the family ranch from the trenches of World War I. In graceful, spare prose, Allen Morris Jones reveals the thoughts of these two unlikely lovers, ultimately unfolding a love story as grand as the American West. With a rare eye for detail, Jones delivers a debut novel infused with an extraordinary sense of history, drama, and the West.