Devil’s Rope

Devil’s Rope
Novel by Gerald McCathern
Third in the Ceebara Series

Devil’s Rope “Diablo Reata” – Indian name for Barbed Wire

The continuing story of the settlement of the last frontier in Texas – the huge grasslands of the Llano Estacado, the staked plains, in the Texas Panhandle. Before 1865, the Llano Estacado was occupied only by a few thousand Indians and several million migrating buffalo. In the 1870’s, buffalo hunters began to slaughter the huge herds, resulting in the Red River Indian wars. Quanah Parker and his Comanches were finally defeated in the battle of the Palo Duro Canyon in 1875 and forced to move to the reservation in Indian Territory of Oklahoma. The last of the buffalo were slaughtered by the hunters and cattle ranchers began to flood the area with hundreds of thousands of longhorn cattle. The Ceebara Ranch was established by one-armed Colonel Jim Cole and his young sidekick, Ned Armstrong, on Red Deer Creek. The story of their struggle to build their ranch into one of the best in the area was told in Horns and Dry Bones. Now, Devil’s Rope takes up their story, beginning in 1881 with the establishment of two of the wildest towns in the west, Mobeetie and Tascosa, where the only law is the law of the six gun. Billy the Kid, Temple Houston, Charles Goodnight, Outlaw Bill Moore, Bat Masterson, Billy Dixon, and many other early frontiersmen of the area are brought together in this exciting finale of the Ceebara Series. You will thrill to the exploits of Colonel Cole’s grandson, Cole Armstrong and Quanah Parker’s son, Jim Bold Eagle, as they battle rustlers, wire cutters, and outlaws, in this fast moving tale of stampedes, blizzards, and prairie fires.

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