Phantom Herd

Luck Lindsay is a movie creator and director, specializing in "e;Westerns"e;. This is in olden times when movies were silent. But, he got sick of the formulaic shoot-em-up movies that Hollywood was turning out and wanted to produce something that represented the "e;real"e; west of olden times, i.e. real cowboys chasing real cows in difficult situations, but still succeeding. Luck meets an old timer at a train station and is directed to a slice of Montana where he finds some "e;real"e; cowboys. (Goodreads)