Based on an actual bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this novel depicts the dying days of the western frontier of America.

William W. Main, John Harold Wilson, John Lydenberg, Wylie Sypher, A. Pauline Locklin, Kenneth S. Lynn, Tristram P. Coffin, Charles Child Walcutt, David H. Greene, New Books, College English, Vol. 18, No. 8 (May, 1957), pp. 433-439