p on a Ranch in Texas is about much more than just a boy and his dog. It is about a way of life that offered adventure, humor and lessons that lasted a lifetime. Marshall Kuykendall is a sixth-generation Texan, having grown up near Driftwood, Texas, which is 15 miles southwest of Austin. His boyhood years on a ranch has given him numerous opportunities for stories about that time. Most of these stories are about Marshall and Inky, the black half-Lab, half-Shepherd who raised him.