Logan Bochart shouted orders from the back of his horse as five hundred head of bawling cows were being separated from their calves. Six fires blazed as cowboys roped and dragged the spring calves in for branding. Ferocious longhorn bulls battled for dominance after their forced uniting in the lo...
A half-burned body was lying across the campfire ashes. Another body was bloating under a mesquite bush, a Yellow Boy Winchester still held in his death grip. Pommel sighed and tipped back his hat. “You know who they were?” Temple nodded and stepped...
He spent several minutes enjoying Nell's body next to his. When he left the bed, she awoke briefly but returned to sleep at his urging. The dugout was cool and musty in the early morning dawn. Collier found the coffee and started a fire in the iron stove. He remembered the great pride Ellen Fox p...
He’d heard stories that the railroad was pushing into Kansas and the Yankees were paying seven times the going price for linebacks than he could get in Williamson County. That made Old Dil’s mouth water since he reckoned he had nearly five thousand head scattered through the hills and thickets. H...