The ranger -- Lightning -- The camp robber -- The westerners -- Monty Price's nightingale -- On location -- Death Valley -- Strange partners at Two-Fold Bay -- Of whales and men.

"Texas Ranger Vaughn Medill is tired of the ranger game, worn down by a life spent eternally on his guard, and grappling with his impossible love for the roughish coquette Roseta Uvalde. When she disappears one morning, it's Medill's task to track her down ... Lightning, a rogue wild horse, is causing havoc for Utah ranchers, invading their grazing spots, he fights and kills their stallions, and leads off the other horses to freedom. With a $500 price on his head, brothers Lee and Cuth Stewart are determined to corral him ... The Selwyn Ranch bunkhouse has been ransacked by the local camp robber, a thief who steals foolish trinkets, yet leaves valuables untouched. When over two thousand dollars of the cowboys' pay vanishes, the new rider Wingfield is accused - but he has his own suspicions, and sets out on the trail of the camp robber."--Publisher description.

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