New Mexico late 1800's: Along came Wire Ryder taking place in the New Mexico territory at the time of Geranimo's surrender 1886. Wire is a western in the sense that it takes place in the west and it involves a ranch forman at a time when "Cow Boying" was ending, trail hearding was giving way to railroad stock cars and stock yards opening in New York and Chicago. Wire is a classic tale of how a person is caught up in changing times and is capable of transitioning his vocational skills into a different way of life. A treasure hunt makes use of all the hero's skills gained as a cowboy. Even the eternal event of meeting the love of ones life depends upon life's events so that one recognizes that love. This is such a story that has occurred often in the west, and most assuredly will occur even as the years march on and cow boying is lost to the future.

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