Tramps of the Range

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. At dawn in the rough cow town of Moon Flats, a travel-stained stranger steps off the train and quietly claims his name: Shelby "Shell" Romaine, recently out of prison and already shadowed by old suspicions. Reunited with Newt Bowie and Monte Barnes, he finds the range unchanged in its hard ways, though a new outlaw terror—the black-clad Black Rider—now dominates every rumor. On the Diamond-S ranch, heir Cal Severn worries over the future of his cattle empire just as two enigmatic newcomers, Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens, arrive with a letter that wins them instant work and deeper curiosity. As gossip spreads, the story widens into a tense frontier of bank robberies, stage hold-ups, and ranch-country loyalties. Then comes a crushing blow: the Black Rider is killed while trying to stop the Mission River stage, and the dead outlaw proves to be Shell's own father, old Rim-Fire Romaine. Before grief can settle, fresh violence erupts with an express safe robbery, a rifle ambush near the ranch, and a wounded man left in the dust. Through gunfire, grief, and rough humor, the people of Moon Flats confront old feuds, uncertain identities, and the possibility of redemption on a lawless range.