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      Barbed Wire

      by Elmer Kelton
      Published
      Apr 1986
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      Historical Historical
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      In this Western novel by a seven-time Spur Award–winning author, two feuding ranchers stake claims—and fences—on open range territory.

      Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land hungry thugs.

      Monahan's fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range baron of the huge R Cross spread.

      With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann, assigned to the violent work, Rinehart wages a barbed wire war against Doug Monahan. And neither side takes prisoners!

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      First Edition Apr 1986 Ace ISBN 0441050905
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