When buffalo-hide hunter, Quentin McLeod, rescues Carlotta Mainord from Comanche raiders, their struggle is still far from over. They must face further hostility from the Indians, flash floods and white brigands, only to find themselves in even greater danger when they arrive in the apparent safety of New Mexico. Carlotta Mainord is attacked and left helpless in a coma and McLeod is blamed and accused of being a Comanchero. Can he convince the hanging jury of his innocence and will he escape the lynch mob in time?
The Staked Plains
The distinctive high mesa straddling West Texas and Eastern New Mexico creates a vista that is equal parts sprawling lore and big blue sky.
Young Gade Haggard rode south in search of a dventure, but ended up fighting a war during which he saw hi s brothers hanged for desertion. And now the man who gave th e fateful order is out to kill Gade. '
Estacado, Cradle of Culture and Civilization on the Staked Plains of Texas
The Staked Plain
El Llano Estacado, a major new work of Western history, reveals the historical heart of one of the world's unique regions -- the enormous mesaland of the Southern High Plains...
" No other place on Earth is quite like it. Humans first inhabited the area more than twelve thousand years ago. Subsequently, settlers came to convert the grassland to ranches and then to sprawling farms.
Flaming Arrows
In this exceptional collection of forty-eight essays from local contributors, David Murrah and John T. Jack Becker continue the work of cataloguing the memory of the mesa.
Staked Plains Rendezvous