Product Overview
From one of the West's greatest livingstorytellers, winner of numerous awards, including the Spur,the Golden Saddleman, and the Western HeritageAward, here is Elmer Kelton's magnificent new novelof the wildcat West Texas oil boom of the 1920s.It used to be that the worst crime in Caprock wasmoonshining or lying about your Saturday night dateon Sunday morning--until someone struck oil. Nowthe scent of the stuff has brought every dreamer,drifter, and two-bit swindler to town. Among themis the frontier mobster Big Boy Daugherty, whowarns any who'd stand in his way: Get Out orDie. One man will do neither. SheriffDave Buckalew is a man too proud to give up andtoo stubborn to give in. He liked his town the wayit was--before the bootleggers, brothels, andfortune-seeking roustabouts--and so did a lot of otherhardworking decent folk. Together they'll fightto win back their town--and their future. This isthe story of their heroic stand.
From the Paperback edition.
