Free Grass (Annotated)

In Free Grass, Ernest Haycox turns the familiar Western conflict over open range into a study of power, ownership, and moral endurance on the frontier. The title evokes the era when unfenced public grazing lands seemed to promise limitless opportunity, yet the novel reveals how that promise breeds rivalry among cattlemen, settlers, drifters, and lawmen. Haycox's prose is spare, visual, and rhythmi...