"The best in the business." - Kirkus Reviews. Old Hyatt Morgan and his two sons, along with Jeb McCarty, Epifanio Garcia and six vaqueros, ran the huge Morgan spread. There had not been a woman on the ranch for more than twenty years when Jane Adair agreed to accompany the Morgans on a cattle drive. Jeb McCarty had said that taking a woman on a cattle drive was bad luck, and sure enough, on the first night out, Jane Adair and young Ward Morgan were kidnapped by a band of Mexican marauders. That same band of raiders stampeded the Morgan herd of seven hundred head of cattle. Now there would be a savage battle as the guns of Mexico were pitted against the guns of Arizona. Lauran Paine, under his own name and various pseudonyms, has written hundreds of novels. His apprenticeship as a Western writer came about through the years he spent in the livestock trade, rodeos and motion pictures where he often worked as an extra.