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'Crooked Trails and Straight' is a Western adventure novel. The young man Curly Flandrau has joined a band of rustlers. Their latest theft is a band of horses from the Bar Double M ranch. The horse owners give chase and Curly is wounded and captured, and his friend Mac is shot dead. But now he hopes that Cullison, the Double M ranch owner, whom he shot during the gunfight, is still alive. Otherwise he might hang for murder...
This is the story of a cattle trail which ran from south of Globe, Arizona north to Holbrook. The trail proved to be a microcosm of the Wild West including cattle drives bar room fights, shootouts, rustling, lawmen who acted like crooks and ranchers who would give the shirt off their backs when needed. In 1993 this book won the prestigious "Best of the Southwest" award.
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