Ripe for the picking, that's what the Stanton Empire looked like to the vicious gang of land-grabbers. Their first raid carried off a girl they thought was Stanton's woman. The next time they would take all -- unless Jaime Henry, Stanton's right-hand man, tracked them to their lair and killed them one by one.

Tom Blackburn adds a bold new chapter to his great saga of a family empire in the Southwest.