Two young men come to the forbidding desert at the foot of Black Mesa. Paul Manning, a would-be writer from Kansas City, is running from memories that haunt him. Wess Kintell, a tall, gray-eyed Texan, is hiding from his shady past. Together, they decide to start a cattle ranch at Black Mesa, but a ruthless trader and some wild women enter their lives and threaten their plans. Before it's over, everyone will learn a hard lesson about living, loving,

Mile upon mile of prairie covered by great buffalo herds; reckless, hard riding plainsmen, buffalo hunters, Indians, bandits-the whole colorful epoch of the pioneer, in a story which centers around the destruction of the thundering herds of buffalo. In this breathless tale of bravery and battle, of white man’s courage and red man’s daring, Zane Grey has written one of his finest novels.