Part history, part romance, and part actionadventure novel, Sun Going Down follows the fortunes of Ebenezer Paint and his descendants— rough and tough individuals who are caught up in Civil War river battles, epic cattle drives through drought and blizzards, the horrors of Wounded Knee, the desperation of the dust bowl, and the prosperity of the roaring 1920s. The page-turning plot is peopled by a vibrant, unforgettable cast of characters: a grizzled Mississippi steamboat merchant, two horse-thieving brothers, five Annie Oakley-like sisters who can outride any cowboy, a half-Sioux bride who demands her new family claim her heritage, and a courageous daughter who defies her father and braves the West alone. Throughout their lives, the Paint family must battle elements both internal and external, and learn to live with spirit and wit.

"An entertaining, heart-breaking and inspirational saga."
— Ottawa Citizen

“Vivid and colorful in its depiction of the West's transformation from the frontier to the modern age, this is a hardscrabble tale of proud folks who refuse to forgive mistakes or forget faults.”
—Publisher's Weekly

“Sun Going Down travels far beyond the Western genre. It is a beautifully written link with human ancestry that will resonate with all who treasure reading. Once begun, the pages do not stop turning.”
—Michael Blake, author of Dances With Wolves and The Holy Road

“Jack Todd has written a big, old-fashioned, historical saga teeming with memorably depicted men and women and packed with incident. Sun Going Down is as rich and exciting and larger than life as the American West it so vividly brings alive.”
—Lewis DeSoto, author of A Blade of Grass

“Few historical novels I have come across since I first read the manuscript of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove have impressed and pleased me more than Jack Todd's Sun Going Down, which has all the right elements—a rich, multi-generational cast of characters; a fascinating family that remains as believable as our own; danger; courage; drama; a broad swash of life and history acutely presented; strong, interesting women characters; and enough action to fill a long novel and who knows maybe a miniseries. Jack Todd has offered proof that the big Western novel is at once a living part of our national literature and as much a part of popular fiction as ever, a genre which never dies, but merely renews itself from time to time, as it has so successfully with Sun Going Down.”
—Michael Korda, author of Ulysses S. Grant and Ike