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I'm currently reading "Broken Trail." I'm not sure why I selected that book, but I thought it would be a good summer read. You will probably recognize it as the 2006 Western television film of the same name. The book was written by Alan Geoffrion who also worked on the screenplay.

It's a story about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from around Burns, Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Wiki --> "Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude. Compelled to do the right thing, they take the girls with them as they continue their perilous trek across the frontier, followed by a vicious gang of killers sent by the whorehouse madam who originally paid for the girls."

I love the way the story weaves the British fighting the Boer War in Africa, the sale of young women in China into prostitution in San Francisco, and the great American West. I'm a big fan of Robert Duvall and I can hear his voice while reading the book. I just found a review by DeltaQueen50 on LibraryThings:

The author wrote the book with Robert Duvall in mind for the older character, and I am guessing he was over the moon when Robert Duvall agreed to play the part in the movie that was made. I have to admit a great part of the enjoyment of this book for me was imagining Robert Duvall as “Uncle Print” Ritter. I enjoyed this book and found it a great escape read.

I couldn't agree more with that review -- good escape read, good historical fiction that weaves together Africa, China, and the US West, and a novel plot.