Barbed-wire Empire - Will Ermine

This Was The Climax; The End Of A Lifetime Of Bitterness And Haterusty Maxwell And Ben Sharp, Both Grown Old, Grizzled, And Rich; One The Owner Of A Barbed-wire Empire, A Sea Of Grass Larger Than Some Eastern States; The Other Risen To Great Political Power, Ruthlessly Scheming To Break The Man With Whom He Had Clashed Ever Since Both Had Driven Their Longhorn Herds Over The Trail To Dodge.to Cut That Empire In Two, To Bring Its Over-lord To His Knees, Had Long Been Ben Sharps Purpose. And In The South Western Pacific Railroad He Found A Weapon Admirably Forged To Accomplish This End. But Rusty Maxwell, For All His Years, Had Not Forgotten How To Fight; Nor Had Lance Kincaid, The Fledgling Eagle He Had Reared, If Not Sired.here Is The Last-stand Fight Between The Valiant Old West, Bred To The Plains And The Saddle, Fearless, A Six-shooter The Tool Of Its Trade; And The Raw, Dollar-driven Progress Of The New.