DEVIL'S ROPE

The ongoing story of the Ceebara, the million acre ranch on the Llano Estacado – and the adventures of Colonel Jim Cole and Ned Armstrong as they struggle against buffalo hunters, cattle rustlers, Indians and outlaws to carve out their ranching empire.

Nobody liked the barbed wire, not even the ranchers who began installing it around their ranches. The first was called a drift fence – a fence erected to prevent cattle from drifting during winter storms. Next, ranchers began to fence their ou...