William MacLeod Raine (1875-1954) was the author of dozens of western novels and short stories, as well as non-fiction, a list of literary achievement that earned him a posthumous induction into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1959. Many of his novels were adapted into movies during the silent film era.
The proud and iron-willed Harvilles have been engaged in a bloody feud with the stubborn Logans, a neighboring family of bluebloods, since the recent end of the Civil War. But that doesn’t stop Larry Harville, returning to the family plantation after years away in England, from falling in love with a Logan woman…and when bloodthirsty, outlaw killers ride into their Arkansas town, the families must put their violent hatred aside to fight a common enemy.