Barry Cord Books

"This Center Point Large Print edition is published in the year 2019 by arrangement with Golden West Literary Agency"--Title page verso.

"When his brother dies mysteriously while bossing the crew stringing telegraph wire through Ghost Canyon, Bill Davis arrives on the scene with two purposes: find out why and how his brother was killed and finish the job his brother had started"--

Ben Sladeen had come to Two Mile and taken a job as ramrod of the Barbed Wire spread with the intention of starting a new life. He wanted nothing to remind him of the old days in New Orleans, when he had been carefree and in love until the King brothers and Curly Temper had shattered the idyll and forced him to leave town.

Trans-Pecos had been running into unexpected difficulties while trying to complete its line across the Drifting Sands country. Besides the ordinary hazards of laying track across that wild section of West Texas, it had had to contend with Slash Hanlon's outlaw gang. The last two payrolls had been held up, and the workers at Eagle Camp at the end of the tracks had quit work and were threatening to riot if they were not paid.

"An unknown figure called the Baron has Muleshoe country paralyzed with fear. Marshal Tom Benton sent for Jackson, the Ranger called Solitary. Before Jackson could arrive, an imposter shows up, shoots Benton and leaves the town so fearful of strangers that when Jackson arrives no one is willing to trust him"--