It’s the summer of 1883. A severe drought threatens to bankrupt the Ridgeways, rocking our ranch and every rancher in Northwest Texas. The cattle are thirsty and hungry. The ranchers are getting desperate. And a simple new invention called barbed wire a.k.a. the devil’s rope is there only defense against illegal herder grazing on their land. Percy Ridgeway and his brother Eli are working overtime to stake offense around their 60,000 acres. But someone keeps cutting the wires. The Ridgeways keep fixing them. And soon Perry is tangled in a high stakes showdown with a thieving cattlemen named Northcutt and his cutthroat henchman. Let the battle begin history would call it the fence wars of 1883. The Ridgeways would call it the summer they fought back come hell or dry water.

ISBN: 9780786045693