He was a tall son—taller than most men by a head, with a look of wildness in his battered, tough face. He was Tom Buchanan out of West Texas, who fought with joy and loved with gusto—who many times had gone to meet death without pause and with great good nature. This time he took on the whole of Agry County and the violent bandit clan that ran it. It was no fight of his—but a girl had been violated and a family’s honor tarnished. So Buchanan settled his gunbelt and flexed his great hands and went surging into battle like a one-man troop of cavalry. And, by God, in the end there was left even to burn in Agrytown …

A fictional drama set in Texas and Mexico in 1890. An exploration of fate, life, and death in a small town in the Rio Grande desert region of southwest Texas. In the period between the Civil War and the growth of the railroad network and the industrial revolution. Written in the genre of ‘SCROVEL’. A crossover of a SCREENPLAY, and a NOVEL. A dispute around a campfire leads to violence and retribution, as men and women, still reeling from the aftermath of the Civil War, and the Mexican – American War, confront the vast sweeping vanguard of the industrial revolution and the growth of the railroad network. A young cowboy is insulted and retaliates. A wealthy cattleman is humiliated and injured, and he sends a rag-tag posse into the Mexican High Country to hunt the cowboy down.