The Bad Lands (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226412610)

It's 1883 in Johnson County, in the old Dakota Territory--a rugged, wide-open landscape of rolling, red earth, prairie, and cattle as far as the eye can see. But the land is closing, the "Beef Bonanza" is ending, and the free-range cattlemen are stuck watching a way of life disappear in a blaze of drought and gunfire.

An action-packed western from one of the masters of the genre, Oakley Hall's The Bad Lands blends roundups and rustlers, whorehouses and land grabs, shoot-outs and the threat of hangings in a tale of the war between the cowboys and the cattle barons. But more than this, it is an elegy to the wild beauty of the badlands before the ranchers moved in, chased off the free-rangers, the trappers, and the tribes, and fenced it all in.

Author: Oakley Hall
ISBN-10: 022641261X
ISBN-13: 9780226412610
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2016
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d