In his day Raine was as popular as Max Brand and Zane Grey and with them he shaped the western novel. This is the story of Steve Fraser, Texas Ranger, who tracks a murderous desperado from a mine in Texas to Lost Valley in Wyoming and along the way meets his match in the gritty but lovely Arlie Dillon. Embedded in the main story is a romance between an engineer looking for work and the determined sister of one of the desperado s victims.

