When a mysterious stranger seeks employment on an Arizona cattle ranch, he's put to the test to prove his manhood in this classic Western novel. Though his clothes and bearing suggest a life of leisure and genteel breeding, the man who calls himself Honorable Patches has come to Prescott, Arizona, to find work as a cowboy. Inexperienced but full of determination, he's taken on at the Cross-Triangle Ranch, where he learns the trade under the guidance...

"And because the town of this story is what it is, there came to dwell in it a Spirit - a strange, mysterious power - playful, vicious, deadly; a Something to be at once feared and courted; to be denied - yet confessed in the denial; a deadly enemy, a welcome friend, an all-powerful Ally." ...This story began in the Ozark Mountains. It follows the trail that is nobody knows how old. But mostly this story happened in Corinth, a town of the middle class...

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