Wild Horse Mesa

by Zane Grey

First published 1928

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In the ranch country of the American Southwest, wild horses on an isolated mesa have become valuable enough to attract men willing to use brutal methods to capture them. Plans to drive a herd into a barbed-wire enclosure divide those who see the horses as profit from those who recognise the destruction such a roundup will cause.

Chane Weymer becomes central to the attempt to stop the trap and save the herd. Rivalry over land, money and Sue Melberne intensifies the dispute, turning a contest over wild horses into a confrontation between competing ideas of ownership and freedom in a landscape where fences are rapidly changing older patterns of ranching and movement.