In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led twenty-five homesteader families toward the Llano Estacado in far West Texas. But frontier cattlemen who had been pasturing their herds on the unfenced prairie land were enraged by the encroachment of these ""nesters"". In August 1902 Jim Miller, ambushed and murdered Jarrott. Who hired Miller? This crime has never been solved, until now.

BILL NEAL practiced criminal law in West Texas for forty years. He is the author of Vengeance Is Mine: The Scandalous Love Triangle That Triggered the Boyce-Sneed Feud (UNT Press); Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier; and Skullduggery, Secrets, and Murders.