The Action Packed Story of Texas' Last Frontier.

Horns

McCathern, Gerald

Gerald McCathern

A terrorist attack on cattle being fattened in a friends feed lot, the murder of a crop dusting pilot, and strange happenings in his small West Texas home town, leads Deputy Sheriff Buster Thornton and his pretty girlfriend, Jo Willman, on a nation-wide search for the terrorists. 
They soon learn that the terrorists have targeted them for death, and the hunters become the hunted. Las Vegas, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.become centers for their investigation, and keep the two investigators on the run. 
When two million cattle in the huge Texas cattle feed lots become quarantined and are ordered to be destroyed by the Federal government because of an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease, the FBI, CIA, and Texas Rangers all get involved in the investigation. The plot thickens with an international twist when the CIA is convinced that the perpetrators are international terrorists and sends agents to the Middle-East in pursuit of two Iraqui terrorists. 
However, Buster, using old west cowboy tactics, is able to prove the murdered crop duster was paid by an organized crime syndicate to spread the virus in the cattle feed lots in order to reap a huge profit on the futures market. He was able to corral the perpetrators of the crime, and with the help of the FBI, make the arrest in the nick of time -- before the President launches a missle attack on Iraq in retaliation. 
Copyrighted in 1998, the fast moving mystery is extremely timely, paralleling the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak in England and the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City.

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The continuing adventures of Colonel Jim Cole and Ned Armstrong as they struggle against buffalo hunters, cattle rustlers, Indians and outlaws to carve out their ranching empire. Nobody liked the barbed wire, not even the ranchers who began installing it around their ranches. The first was called a drift fence -- a fence erected to prevent cattle from drifting during winter storms. Next, ranchers began to fence their outer property lines to keep their cattle separated from neighbors livestock and to help control rustling. Then, homesteaders began fencing their small plots of land which were located within the boundaries of the huge, free grazing ranches, and started plowing out the sod and planting crops. Horses and cattle were cut and maimed when they became entangled in the Devil's Rope. Nomadic Indians were unable to travel their old trails. Then the disastrous blizzard of 1886 roared across the plains and hundreds of thousands of cattle piled up along the drift fences and froze to death. Tempers flared, night riders began cutting wire, shots were fired and people were killed. The Texas Legislature stepped in with laws in an effort to prevent enclosure of school lands with wire by the cattle barons, and began levying lease payments on the school lands. The die had been cast, barbed wire was here to stay, and free grazing was a thing of the past!

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Horns

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Devil's rope