'The Free Rangers' is a Western-themed novel written by Joseph A. Altsheler. The story unfolds at a wilderness that rolled away to north and to south, and also rolled away to east and to west, an unbroken sweep of dark, glossy green. Straight up stood the mighty trunks, but the leaves rippled and sang low when a gentle south wind breathed upon them. It was the forest as God made it, the magnificen...