Bill Pronzini
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Ruel Starrett, from the Red River region of Texas, purchases a half interest in the great Spade Ranch from Susana Dahlhart. This will give him a chance to carry forth his experiment to cross Brahma bulls with longhorn range cattle. But there is the problem of Zack Markley, the Spade foreman, who Ruel Starrett wants to fire, but who claims ownership of the Mission Creek section of the ranch and who will fight for possession of it.
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"Two short western novels: 'Trouble at Temescal' tells the story of two entrepreneurial mustangers in Los Angeles after the Mexican-American War and 'King of the Defiances' involves a greedy rancher in Arizona who is trying to make a fortune in logging through devious means and the man determined to stop him" --Provided by publisher.
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"Brand of the Bear Flag Mutineers" chronicles a bitter and bloody confrontation between U.S. soldiers and Secessionist troops in California's rugged San Bernardino Mountains during the Civil War. In "The Dark Border," a pair of adventurous cowmen wins a hardscrabble ranch in a dice game in the south Texas badlands. Their subsequent involvement with a man involved in the illegal running of cattle across the Mexican border leads to hard lessons learned...