Hondo Lane was a man who'd come to terms with the hard land in which he lived. He rode dispatch for General Crook through the Arizona desert--a severe and beautiful landscape where one mistake could lead to a quick and lonely death. It was on the way to deliver an important message about an imminent Apache raid that he came upon an isolated ranch defended by a lone woman and her young son. But Angie Lowe wasn't just any woman. She was a fighter with...

In this last of the Hopalong Cassidy novels, the author sends his hero to rescue cowboy Pete Melford. But it's too late, Melford has been shot and Cindy, his niece, swindled out of the ranch he left her. To catch the killers Cassidy goes undercover, signing on as a simple hand on their leader's ranch.