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On Texas Plains Mr. Hough's Fillain Is Flayed Alive
The Story. Eighteen sixty-seven. Texas—immense, unorganized, full of cattle for which no profitable market could be found, cattle-rustlers, land-poor cow-barons and original sin. The Del Sol ranch—sole owner, Anastasie ("Taisie") Lockhart, redhaired, beautiful, 20-year-old orphan —her father, Burleson Lockhart, had been murdered some years previously. Broke like the rest of Texas, Taisie was at her wits' end. Her cow hands were faithful, but she couldn't carry on forever with no money to pay them. Enter...
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