Regular print version originally published in the U.S. by Macrae Smith Company.
Summary:
"It all started when Tom Shelby, ex-trapper, stopped to investigate the disturbance in Bear Nose's usually peaceful Cheyenne village. When Tom, who was on his way to Fort Butler to sell his furs and take up ranching, found the Cheyennes in the midst of a war dance with Arapahoes and Oglalas, he suspected that trouble was brewing. And when a trio of Kiowas galloped into the circle of firelight carrying a captive white woman, he was sure of it. But Indian trouble wasn't all that Tom had to contend with. Tom had been expecting to take up free range, but he learned all too soon that no range is free. You had to fight for what you got -- whether for a lovely girl like Karen Neilson whose life he had saved and with whom he had fallen in love, or for land, or for anything else that really mattered. The free things often cost the most."-- Provided by publisher.
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