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Title: Not up to par for Ernest Haycox
Review: Such an unrealistic story, Tracy Coleman is sent up to Montana or whereever this is, to take over a ranch left to its own devices for 4 long years by an old owner and in the meantime the basin ranchers in particular Dan Stuart owner of the Star Cross who is a mean spirited heartless type has decided that this ranch, the Horsehead is abandoned and they will vent the brands with their own and take over the headquarters and the range, there are two females in the story and they both love the as described homely Tracy Coleman who mismanages about everything he does in defending Horsehead, his entire crew is either shot or hung, there is way too much self anaylyzing among the characters, I have a very hard time believing that Ernest Haycox wrote this story, perhaps it was dug up and published after his death. If you want to read Haycox, don't start with this book.
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