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In a dangerous alley in a township in South Africa, the strength and unity which a group of young friends feel while playing soccer keep them safe when a gang of bullies arrives to cause trouble.

Two young men come to the forbidding desert at the foot of Black Mesa. Paul Manning, a would-be writer from Kansas City, is running from memories that haunt him.

Ernest Selby inherits Red Rock Ranch, but when he learns the herd has shrunk from 20,000 head to only 6,000 he suspects foul play.

"He'd rope the devil and tie him down-if the lasso didn't burn," it was said of Buffalo Jones, one of the last of the famous plainsmen who trod the trails of the Old West.

The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling.