Knights of the range
(Book)

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The historic Don Carlos Rancho stood at the gateway of the pass through which the Old Santa Fe Trail wound off to the Great Plains. Col. Ripple had married the glamorous Spanish daughter of the proprietor. As the years went by, their beautiful daughter, Holly Ripple, grew up, sheltered far away in a boarding school in the East. At her father's death, Holly was plunged onto the throne of this cattle empire, a bewildered girl who knew nothing about the West. She arrived at the moment when Captain Britt, foreman of the Rancho, was at his wits' end to defend the 50,000 head of cattle roaming over the domain of the young heiress. There was no alternative for Holly and Britt except to fight. Their strategy was to organize a tougher outfit and fight the rustlers on their own terms.

Holly Ripple inherits her father's New Mexico ranch in a time when New Mexico faces its worst frontier lawlessness. She struggles to become the glue to keep together a group of the meanest, toughest mob of fire-eating desperadoes rounded up to fight for the rights of the ranchers, called the legendary Knights of the Range.