Home on the range -- The Saints march in -- The honor of ruin -- The trials of the Saints -- Cowboys and criminals -- Hell on the range -- The honor of vengeance -- Killing conscience -- Understanding -- Water on the fires -- Courting conscience -- Honor anew
Summary
In this lively account of Arizona's Rim Country War of the 1880s--what others have called "The Pleasant Valley War"--Historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. At the heart of Arizona's range war, argues Herman, was a conflict between cowboys' code of honor and Mormons' code of conscience
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-342) and index
