Range ghost

The Panhandle is poised for violence as one spread after another loses cattle to mysterious rustlers. Walt Slade, the hawk of the Texas Rangers, drifts quietly into Amarillo, a wild and wolly frontier town more dangerous than a she-grizzly. Dodging drygulch by shotgun, rifle and noose, Slade finds the killer-thieves like a desert mountain: further away wherever he looks. In the sandy wastelands lies the answer, and Slade goes there to find either death or the range ghost.