The rider of the Ruby Hills
(Book)

The title story became the novel, Where the long grass blows; Showdown Trail became the novel, The tall stranger; A man called Trent became the novel, The Mountain Valley war; The trail to Peach Meadow Canyon became the novel, Son of a wanted man.

"Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in goods of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness of cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers, hunted buffalo and horse thieves. Now he was going to ride for himself, to fight for himself."-- from the book.