9780765348944
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Elmer Kelton
Format Mass Market Paperback
Dimensions 4.18 (w) x 6.63 (h) x 0.60 (d)
Pages 224
Publisher Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
Publication Date April 2007
ISBN 9780765348944
Book ISBN 10 0765348942
About Book

Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land hungry thugs.
Monahan's fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range baron of the huge R Cross spread.
With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann, assigned to the violent work, Rinehart wages a barbed wire war against Doug Monahan. And neither side takes prisoners!
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"Kelton...expands on his reputation with a thoughtful, realistic portrayal of the West in which carefully drawn characters -- not gunplay -- drive the action. If there's an heir to the Louis L'Amour legacy, it's Kelton." -- Booklist