One What do newcomers find abounding in Woolly West towns? Answer: Quaintness and charm. Nathan Hazard was mad enough to chew barbed wire. Cyrus Alistair was dead, but even in death the old curmudgeon had managed to thwart Nathan s at- tempts to buy his land. Cyrus had bequeathed his tiny Montana sheep ranch to a distant relative from Vir- ginia, someone named Harry Alistair. For years that piece of property had been an itch Nathan couldn t scrateh--a tiny scrap of Alistair land sitting square in the middle of the Hazard ranch--the last vestige of a hundred-year-old feud between the Hazards and the Alistairs. Nathan had just learned from John Wilkinson, the
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